Music / Man on the Internet

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Man on the Internet (founded and run by Alex Beckham) is a group YouTube channel in the vein of brentalfloss specializing in lyricizing music from video games, with particular emphasis on boss battle themes. Two of his works, Undertale the Musical and Chrono Trigger: The Musical, have their own pages.

This creator provides examples of:

• Accent Adaptation:
  • Grimm's voice in Hollow Knight is very raspy and usually speaks in strained, whispering tones. Alex, however, gives Grimm a more powerful, darker, theatrical tone befitting the Troupe Master he is.
  • "Deltarune the (not) Musical - Hammer of Justice" gives Gerson a southern accent, likely to fit in with how his song has a prominent banjo solo.
  • Similar to Grimm, Widow’s voice in the “Silksong Musical Bytes” is somewhat of a departure from canon, being more high-pitched and angelic. She does drop more into the savage and rabid scratchy voice from canon in the second phase however, fitting her desperation to prove her devotion.
• Actually a Doombot: In Mario & Luigi: Brothership, Reclusa is implied to have thrown the Bros. off with one of his duplicates to merge with the Soli-Tree and become Weeping Reclusa instead of being killed due to suddenly appearing alive and well during the transition from phase 1 to phase 2 despite his body vanishing in the explosion. Here, Reclusa's Doombot trick is reinforced, as he says, "Wrong one, idiots!" instead of something like "I'm not licked yet!" prior to his merger with the Soli-Tree in reference to the Expendable Clone.
• Adaptational Sympathy: Zero Two is interpreted as a Tragic Monster, painfully aware that he cannot experience any positive emotion and pondering the point of his own existence. Subverted by his AI replication in Air Riders, which is far more openly hateful and less remorseful.
• Adaptational Villainy:
  • Phosphora in Kid Icarus Uprising Bytes - Lightning Battle is openly hateful of humanity. In canon, she never displayed such traits, she just worked for Viridi and her opinion of humanity was unknown.
  • Marx is far more vicious and destructive in Vs Marx as he openly shows his desire to kill everyone where in canon, he just wanted to use his powers to rule Popstar.
  • William Afton, being the villain of the Five Nights at Freddy's franchise, downplays this trope as he was already a villain in the first place. However, Afton never had his motive for killing kids revealed there. Here, it's to fuel his own life force, making him even more loathsome than his original self.
  • Could arguably be seen as the case for Circus Baby in "Tilt-A-Whirl". Unlike the games, she is not Elizabeth Afton as she states she outright killed her, and seemingly lacks her more calm and manipulative personality and now has a more Axe-Crazy one.
  • Miracle Matter from Kirby 64 never had much personality to start with, but in its Songvember release has one that's more of an opposite to Zero Two; rather than grimly pondering its existence as a negative entity, it embraces it wholeheartedly and seeks to cause as much death and destruction as possible.
• Arc Words:
  • All the Super Paper Mario songs have at least one utterance of, "Three cheers for the count". The only exceptions are Count Bleck and Dimentio's songs. In Dimentio's case, it hints towards his status as The Starscream. In Bleck's case, it represents his self-loathing and his true broken self, because he can't even bring himself to cheer himself on.
  • Barring Gourmet Race and its variations, each song from the Kirby package has at least one line related to dreams.
• Ascended Extra: Despite not having her own song, Nastasia gets her own song in the Super Paper Mario Musical Bytes by using the "Castle Bleck" theme.
• All Germans Are Nazis: Implied. While Werner Werman isn't explicitly shown to be anything more specific than a German soldier, "The Murine Corps" has several lines that allude to Nazi ideology ("Hail the Superman") and iconography ("Everyone Heil!"), as opposed to the WWI iconography of the source game.
• Ambiguous Gender: Morpho Knight from Kirby Star Allies claims to be an "underworld king" during the second verse of the cover of his battle theme from Kirby and the Forgotten Land, which would imply a masculine gender, but is given a feminine voice and also calls himself a "valkyrie" in the same verse which would imply a feminine gender.
• As Long as There Is Evil: 0² gives a line to this effect:
  For as long as there is fear
  The creeping shadow shall draw near
• Awesome Aussie: Dingodile. Man on the Internet admitted to trying to fit in every bit of Australian slang he could that wasn't cursing (or vegemite).
• Ax-Crazy: A majority of the antagonists have a few screws loose.
  • Ridley stands out even among the villains as his entire song is an ode to violence, death, and destruction.
  • Omega's song is basically three minutes of him going on about how he relishes fighting, killing and hearing the screams of human and reploid alike and how he longs to be the destruction of the world.
• Badass Boast:
  • Bowser's verse of 'In the Final' is pretty much a long string of these.
    Bowser: I have conquered galaxies, Now I've stepped down to see, If a shadow can bleed!
  • The Legendary Bytes for Pokemon are filled with these from the various Legendary Pokemon. While some of them are comparatively humble, they are a bit of an exception in a (Pokemon) World of Ham.
    Mewtwo: How can you even hope to stand up to what you can't even conceive!
    Mewtwo/Red:'I'm the paragon! I'm the epitome!
    Groudon: Stand beneath the blazing sun!
    In this world that I have won!
    Kyogre: While there's land
    So crash the waves
    No one stands in my domain!
    Giratina: I am the ending of the gods!
    Necrozma: Pride in wrestling the light
    Wrath of mankind’s rage
    Envy of my might
    Lust for endless day
    Gluttony for power
    In your endless greed
    But your sloth is fall
    Now the dragon's free!
    Arceus: Although you fight,
    I am the light
    You are a seedling that I have sown!
  • Legendaries aren't the only ones: "Vs. Galactic Commander Jupiter" also features lines like this.
    Jupiter: Our grand intentions extend to the heavens!
    This sad broken world is too late to be mended
    And oh what a shame friend, this is where your game ends
    A moment truly climactic!
    Bow down to Team Galactic!
  • "Radiance" is completely full of these. When the chorus isn't praising the titular character, Radiance herself is boasting of her rule over all infected creatures and/or proclaiming her godhood.
    Nothing you could hope to dream
    Could stand up to the works of me!
    The light is god! The light is supreme!
  • Sada and Turo also get in on the fun.
    Sada/Turo: Evolution needs a hero! The champion of Area Zero!
  • Reclusa from Mario & Luigi: Brothership also gets several instances, but one of the standout examples is near the end of his song.
    You think escape will set you free?
    There is nowhere beyond my reach!
  • In a similar vein to the Legendary Bytes, Mega Rayquaza's theme is filled to the brim with Badass Boasts; if it isn't challenging Team MZ for daring to intrude on its domain, it's boasting of its indomitable power over the skies, its protection of and worship from humanity, and its status as the master of the Weather Trio above Groudon and Kyogre, Physical Gods in their own right.
    Blazing suns and pouring floods
    All know to bow before the king
    Still you think that you’re the one
    Who’d overcome the Delta Stream
    Think the world is yours to claim
    But it’s my sky that you live under
    Now you face the hurricane!
    Let the storm tear you asunder!
• Beyond Redemption: Mustache Girl views all villains as this with her song "You Are All Bad Guys" from A Hat in Time, as she explicitly states, "Every bad guy can never pay enough or get better!"
• Big "NO!": Dimentio gives one upon defeat at the end of his song "It's Showtime!" from Super Paper Mario.
• Black Comedy Rape: Implicitly defied in "Garten of Banban Cipher," where Opila Bird tells anyone who thought she would use "the other word that rhymes with -ape" to "find Jesus."
• Blasphemous Boast:
  • Giratina in "Vs. Giratina" boasts of its superiority to the other Sinnoh deities, describing them as "those worthless gods" and calling itself "the ending of the gods".
  • Fecto Elfilis in "Two Planets Approach the Roche Limit" claims that it is "the one who has deafened [the gods'] ears" and that they can no longer hear Kirby's cries.
• Broken Pedestal: Zote is this to Bretta, naturally. While the first half of "Truth, Beauty and Hatred" has Bretta proclaiming his glory, halfway through she begins to realize that he's not all he cracked up to be, and instead begins complaining about him.
  Grey prince, once you were so strong,
  But now, everything feels wrong,
  The tales I see in my dreams,
  It seems they fail when you pull at the seams.
• Broken Record: "Truth, Beauty and Hatred" has Bretta realize that Zote is this, alongside every other rose tinted misconception she had being broken, as in the game. The chorus most definitely is this, as while it initially repeats her lyrics, it fails to acknowledge Bretta's lyrics changing in the second half, singing the exact same while Bretta starts pointing out the flaws of Zote while proclaiming that she's leaving.
• Butterfly of Death and Rebirth: Morpho Knight, as per its source material. It calls itself the "reborn butterfly," referencing its Boss Subtitles in Kirby Star Allies, "Butterfly Reborn."
  Morpho Knight: Face the reborn butterfly / Comes for the fallen at their final hour!
• Calling the Old Man Out: Like in Sun And Moon, Lillie gives her mother a brutal speech about how Pokémon and humans aren't just toys. She goes a step farther by pointing out that despite Lusamine's claims of loving her Pokémon, they are clearly terrified of her.
• Child Hater: William Afton, of truly spectacular proportions. His musical Motive Rant is all about how children are undeserving of life wretches who are put to better use as sacrifices to fuel his quest for immortality. He even claims to view their screaming as a saccharine cacophony.
• Colour-Coded for Your Convenience:
  • In Battle of Award 42, shortly after the 3 minute mark, DJ Grooves and the Conductor sing different lines simultaneously. At this point, the on-screen lyrics become yellow for the Conductor and red for DJ Grooves.
  • In Rush Hour, the on-screen lyrics are black outlined in yellow for the chorus, purple for the Empress, and orange for Hat Kid.
  • In Palutena vs Medusa, Palutena uses green subtitles while Medusa uses dark purple ones.
  • In Mantis Lords, each Mantis Lord gets a different shade of blue for their subtitles.
  • In "Overdue", when Pico and THE FORGIVEN sing at the same time, Pico uses orange subtitles, while THE FORGIVEN uses red subtitles, separating THE FORGIVEN's apologizing for accidently killing his brother with Pico angrily asking Mr. L about why he's dealing with all this.
  • Star Dream has the choir and Star Dream's lyrics in white while Haltmann's are depicted in grey.
  • Galeem has his lines written in white in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate's "Galeem/Dharkon," while Dharkon's lines are in purple.
  • Hammer of Justice has the text for Gerson's coloured in green while the text for Susie's lyrics are coloured purple.
• The Corruptor: Dark Samus and Snake Man, the former through absorbing and consuming everything they come across, the latter taking a page from The Megas and trying a We Can Rule Together speech.
• Creepy Circus Music:
  • Jevil's song, "The World Revolving".
  • "It's Showtime" and "The Ultimate Show", as discussed by Dimentio in both of his songs.
    From the void, the circus horns will sing a song of nothing!
  • Combining the above, "The Ultimate World Spun ft. Marx", which has the Dimentio, Marx, and Jevil sing together.
    So join the spiral!
    The tempest surge
    Will end the world!
  • "Meat Circus" takes Peter McConnell's energetic theme for the titular level and twists it, with the singers excitedly singing about the deadly and dangerous stunts Raz performs along with both his and Coach Oleander's traumatic childhood memories.
    Your life turned upside-down
    The circus is in town!
• Dark Reprise:
  • "The Ultimate Show" echoes the lyrics to both "Brobot Battle" and "It's Showtime", both Mr. L and Dimentio's battle themes. Fitting, for what is essentially a fusion of both of them.
    Mr. L: Up and a-down on this merry-go-round, so merrily we go!
    Dimentio: We perform, strike back at the norm of running right and jumping / From the void, the circus horns will sing a song of nothing!
    Super Dimentio: Up and down on this merry-go-round / Destinations you'll never know [...] We perform, we rewrite the norm, and sing a song of nothing / From the void, the circus horns proclaim the power rushing!
  • "Cannon Ball" likewise alludes to lyrics from Zero's theme, fitting of his nature as the original body of Zero.
    Light it up, and on the saber I proclaim
    Omega! I'll leave you screaming out my name!
  • "You Are All Bad Guys" flips Hat Kid's solo from "Mafia Town" on its head and shows just why Mustache Girl's a Foil to the heroine of A Hat in Time.
    Hat Kid: Oh, can it be? What's this I see? / A whole town of criminality / It's time for me to get my hands dirty / And bring the peace / If we all work together / Believe in one another / Our world could make wonders / Everyone racing straight to the stars!
    Mustache Girl: Oh, can it be? What's this I see? / A world free of criminality! / It's up to me to make reality / A world of peace! / You can all burn together / You can all burn forever / Every bad guy can never / Pay enough or get better!
  • A between-verses rather than between-works variant happens by the time Reclusa's Final Reclusa phase, conveying his Villainous Breakdown by the end:
    Reclusa: (Weeping Reclusa and Weeping Core phases) You think your world will end with a whimper
    Broken apart, turned hostile?
    Give them a chance to die with a glimmer
    In a prison of denial!
    Oh, how I smile!
    Reclusa: (Final Reclusa phase) I think your world will end with a bang!
    How dare you break up my smile!
    You dare defy me, so you die in pain!
    Choking alone on your bile!
    DAMN THESE LOST ISLES!
• Defiant to the End: "Sammer's Kingdom" is a Crowd Song from the Sammer Guys who, in spite of the threat of the void causing The End of the World as We Know It, will continue fighting until the end.
  But if it all should end…
  Our legacy would never be forgotten!
  Our kingdom's honor we defend…
  We'll meet the world's demise, standing with our heads held high!
• Distant Duet: "Moonstruck Blossom" starts as this, as the artwork depicts Taranza on the vines of the Dreamstalk as Kirby battles Sectonia high above. This trope stops being in effect once Taranza enters the scene toward the end of the song.
• Driven by Envy: The lyrics to "Vs. Marx" imply that this was Marx's motivation for manipulating Kirby into enabling his scheme.
  Demon in pink, Who can't think what I think
  Why should you be the only one to dream?
• Dumb Muscle: O'Chunks proudly proclaims throughout his song that he's "Muscled up, brawn over brains!"
• Evil vs. Evil:
  • "Evil" may be stretching it a little, but "Groudon vs. Kyogre" certainly gives off these vibes, as both Pokemon are framed in a rather threatening and sinister light and strongly oppose each other.
    Groudon: No one hears the water's cries! From the depths the earth shall rise!
    Kyogre: Do not dare to think you've won! Rain blots out your blazing sun!
    Both: Crash and burn against the waves, for this world is MY domain!
    Kyogre: Gasping for air, you struggle in vain.
    Groudon: Bathe in the fire that snuffs out the rain!
  • "Galeem/Dharkon" has both villains singing about how they intend to dominate the world, with Galeem singing of absolute order and purification, while Dharkon sings of inflicting terror and insanity. While most lines are directed to the Smashers, there are a few that seem to be referring to the other, just like in the game where they mainly fight the player but take shots at each other at the same time.
• Fan Edit: Fans will sometimes create their own versions of the music videos. One example is re-creating the battles from "In the Final..." in and playing them out in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.
• Fire Is Masculine: Of a sort — Groudon has No Biological Sex, but it's given a masculine voice in the Legendary Bytes for "Groudon vs. Kyogre" and is the embodiment of the volcanic landmasses. This contrasts with the more feminine-sounding Kyogre, who represents water.
• Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: All of Pico's lyrics in Overdue can be accurately summarized as him telling Mr. L to take his venting over his tragic fate and shove it, clearly not impressed with Mr. L taking it out on him when he had nothing to do with it and wasting his time on his search for Boyfriend.
• Fun with Subtitles: The Chinese (Taiwan) closed captioning makes the most out of YouTube's subtitle tools, being even more showy than the onscreen English lyrics. Changing colors, shaking or changing size for emphasis, even movement and chromatic aberration when it's thematically appropriate.
• Gag Dub: Fumbled Scooby Minute, which consisted of minute-long videos dubbing over episodes of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!. The episodes have since been removed/unlisted from the channel.
• A God I Am:
  • In "Vs. Mewtwo", Mewtwo claims that its strength is comparable to gods rather than normal Pokémon.
    I am not human, nor am I Pokémon!
    —->I have ascended to be on the level of your gods!
  • In "Star Dream", the lyrics for the final phase imply that Star Dream has come to view themselves as a godlike figure. For example:
    >Haltmann's wish be executed//
    >Star Dream's power undisputed//
    >A new world shall be transmuted//
    >Thus perfection has computed//
    Choir: Noble Haltmann
    Star Dream: >Deus est Machina ^note God is a/the machine.//
• Gods Need Prayer Badly: When Viridi announces that she will drive humanity to extinction, Pit protests that without humans, gods cannot exist.
  Pit: "Without the humans, there's no gods! You don't have the right!"
• Graceful Loser: The Mantis Lords lose to the Knight at the end of their song, but instead of lamenting their defeat, they return to their thrones and bow to the Knight.
  We bow to you
  Claim your pale throne!
• Gratuitous Latin:
  • "Galeem/Dharkon" opens with the Latin words for light, darkness, and omnipotence. The chorus also incorporates the first lines of the Super Smash Bros. Brawl main theme: "Audi famam illius, solus in hostes ruit et patriam servavit!"
  • There's also plenty in "Two Planets Approach the Roche Limit", including the words for "falling star" and various statements about divinity.
• Halloween Episode:
  • The channel tends to upload covers of spooky video game themes during October.
  • During October, the channel had previously aired a series called "Freaky Fettucine", which were (usually) short videos of Alex doing Dramatic Readings of amateur Creepypasta. The series was likely inspired by Bad Creepypasta.
• Hey, You!: In "Meat Circus", Coach Oleander is never referred to by name, just with descriptors like "butcher's boy" and "bunny child". Likely because his name lacks enough syllables.
• Hope Crusher:
  • In "Vs. Ultra Necrozma", Ultra Necrozma itself declares its intention to "condemn humanity to all despair".
  • A more implicit version with William Afton in "Down to Hell". He chides Oswald for "thinking life gets better" and encourages him to resign to his fate of being dragged to Hell.
• Hurricane of Puns: Dedede's lines in "Gourmet Race" consist almost entirely of food-based puns.
  Dedede: Doughnut underestimate the power that I under-cake!
• I Banged Your Mom: Jumbo Josh makes this pretty explicit in the Garten of Banban April Fools' song.
  Jumbo Josh: Don't get on the elevator, or you'll find that I'm a hater! Smack you down, brah, see you later! Find your mom and do more than date her! Big and green, like an Incredible Hulk, and I'll show your mom my incredible bulk! If you complain, I'll send you to your room to sulk! 'CAUSE I'M FUCKING YOUR MOM!
• I Have No Son!: Lusamine declares that she has no child partway through her song.
• Idiot Ball: Alex chastises the protagonist during his reading of Mario.Exe for multiple stupid decisions, the stupidest of all being the fact that he downloaded the Super Mario Bros. game off a sketchy MediaFire link.
  Alex: Ah, yes. Mario for PC. The PC where it wasn't released. The PC where it is only emulated, the PC, the original Mario Bros. for PC, yes, totally. You will get a million viruses, you idiot.
• Insult Backfire: "Dingodile" claims that he does not mind being called "a bogan": "that's fine; it's me slogan". Though it sounds less like a brag and more like allowing his opponent that one when he gets to the idea "That I'm a psycho? Eh, fair dinkum."
• "It" Is Dehumanizing: Despite being portrayed as more sapient than its canon counterpart, Nosk is still referred to as "it" by the chorus of its victims.
• I'll Kill You!: Reclusa from Mario & Luigi: Brothership threatens to end the Bros. in Phase 4 for "breaking his rules."
  Reclusa: Wretched fools! You dare break my rules!? I will end you!
• Jump Scare: That picture of Marx snaps onto the screen at "'CAUSE THIS IS MY FANTASY!"
• Killed Mid-Sentence: Grey Prince Zote dies from Defeat Means Explosion before he can finish proclaiming "I am the Grey Prince Zote."
• Knight of Cerebus: A constant for Man On The Internet's works. Chrono Trigger: The Musical has Lavos, Undertale the Musical has Flowey, Chara and W.D. Gaster, and Smash Bros Musical Bytes has Dark Samus.
• Lampshade Hanging: The "Gruntilda Battle with Lyrics" video is positively loaded with this, befitting the game it came from.
• Last-Second Word Swap: One that transitions into the main chorus.
  O'Chunks: Yer a goner, lad, I'm gonna kick your / I'm muscled up, brawn over brains...
• Loves the Sound of Screaming: In Unbroken, William Afton describes the screams of the children he's murdered as a "saccharine cacophony".
• Lyrical Dissonance:
  • Their "Dingodile" song's upbeat melody contrasts boldly with horrific lyrics about Dingodile burning you to death.
    You'll be taken in by me toothy grin / While the fire bubbles and broils your skin
  • "Intrepid" has Jenny Fitzgerald (a Gender Flip of Jeremy Fitzgerald) remain a Genki Girl even as she points out in the song how the Hostile Animatronics can and possibly will kill the night guard if they screw up, and their body might never be found.
• Massive Multiplayer Crossover: A running joke of various unlikely figures singing something along the lines of "Megalovania" culminated in "Wrongovania", a whole production with a huge gang of unlikely characters battling (and in customized Smash Bros. footage, beating the crap out of) the murderous Fallen Child while clambering to sing the now-familiar tune. Somehow, it still ends with Sans getting killed... After, some of them wonder what that kid's problem was and wander off to get some shwarma.
• Midword Rhyme: Grimm's medley has the following line throughout:

• Mirror Character: The Legendary Bytes Mewtwo video sets up Mewtwo and Red as this as both 'The Strongest' and 'Very Best'.
• Mood Whiplash: Opila Bird does this in the April Fools' Garten of Banban song:
  Opila Bird: BIRD UP! No escape! Flightless terror with a coat of grape! If you thought I'd say the other thing that rhymes with -ape... You need to find Jesus. BIRD UP!
• MST: Freaky Fettucine is part this, part Dramatic Reading. In this case, Alex usually reads the Creepypasta straight (with the occasional snarky aside) while floating text does most of the snarking for him. In the longer episodes, the floating text is usually forgone.
• Mundane Made Awesome: Gourmet Race is a peppy tune with King Dedede singing a trash talk hurricane of food puns, wihile Kirby responds in his part with his poyo-speak. Gourmet Race but it's EPIC is the orchestral rearrangement from Super Smash Bros. Melee. The poyos are a Dramatic Choir Number, and Dedede (in his Handsome Dedede form) gives an operatic performance for the exact same trash talk he had in the regular Gourmet Race!
• Mythology Gag: Mewtwo in one image is shown using a giant spoon to fight Red's team, which is what the Mewtwo in the Adventures manga used as a weapon.
• "Not Making This Up" Disclaimer: If there's ever instances of typos, messed up grammatical structures or generally terrible sentences in Freaky Fettucine, Alex will make sure the audience knows that he wasn't speaking incorrectly and that's actually what the author wrote. Case in point, during Sonic.exe:
  Alex: [reading] "You're too slow! Wanna try again?" I didn't actually add the "you're too slow", that one's actually in the— in the script!
• "Not So Different" Remark: Fecto Elfilis gives one to Kirby in "Two Planets Approach the Roche Limit".
  Elfilis: I am what you could be if you tried!
• Omnicidal Maniac: They write several songs about such characters, most notable are: Lavos, Bleck and his minions (especially Dimentio), Marx, Star Dream, Ridley, Fecto Elfilis, Reclusa. But there are others.
  • Viridi's song "Wrath of the Reset Bomb" is notable because she falsely accuses Mankind of being this, this despite she herself being the Kill All Humans subtype of the trope.
    Humans thrive on MASSACRE, decimate the trees and exploit the land
    They're enemies of Life itself
    They will die at Viridi's hand
• Only in It for the Money: "Rush Hour" and the Nyakuza:
  Sound the alarm, nobody gets away
  Empress wants her head on a plate
  Put up a bounty, we'd retire in days
  Saddle up, cats — we're GONNA GET PAID!
• Only the Worthy May Pass: Combined with Strength Equals Worthiness in "Hornet".
  Hornet: Lost child
  Prove yourself worthy
  To bear this kingdom's fate
  Or fall
  I'll not hold back
  If the weak die at my blade
  From where do you draw strength?
  Child of kings, if you succeed
  Then hallowed be thy name!
• Our Liches Are Different: William Afton in "Unbroken" displays the classic traits of a lich, being a user of dark magic who uses it to expand his life — in this case, using the souls of murdered children as a Living Battery that keeps him alive.
• The Paladin: Simon and Richter Belmont.
  To hell with your heresy! This will not stand!
  I'll save my country as God commands!
• Physical God: Arceus's cover is basically devoted to him making it clear that he is in fact a god and the creator of the universe, and not just a really powerful being among many.
  Arceus: Sound the horn, bang the drum, I am God, I have come.
• Pirate Song: "Hand and Eye" is a sea shanty with an epic orchestral backing, sung by Juno Songs as Foxy the Pirate Fox. Foxy initially seems to be singing to his child audience about the joys of being a pirate, and encouraging them to join his pirate crew. However, he says that you can't join his crew unless you lose a hand and eye, referencing the Fazbear Frights story "Step Closer". At the end of the song, it's revealed that he actually wants to make the night guard lose a hand and eye by killing them. The song ends with Foxy's jump scare from Five Nights at Freddy's 2, implying that The Bad Guy Wins.
• Pragmatic Adaptation: The Boss Battle that "Battle of Award 42" originally played during was a case of Static Role, Exchangeable Character where you would fight either DJ Grooves or the Conductor depending on your score in their respective levels. Rather than make two versions of the song to reflect this, MotI's take on it is instead a Quarreling Song between the two that seems be sung over a Mêlée à Trois between them and Hat Kid.
• Quarreling Song: Several songs are presented as duets between two rival figures, either a boss and the player or two rival bosses, as they sing an argument against each other. Often, after at least one round of each singing their round solo, further repetitions see the singers try to shout their choruses over each other.
  • "Groudon vs Kyogre" is a protracted argument in song form, with the Legendaries taking turns singing about their determination to shape the world according to their visions, and contrasting Groudon's shorter bursts of loud and almost shouted lyrics with Kyogre's more fluid, insistent, and growled ones.
  • In vs Lusamine, Lillie spends her verses calling out her mother on her pointless, selfish cruelty.
  • "Battle of Award 42" is sung by DJ Grooves and the Conductor, as each insults the other's artistic style, claims his own to be the on the cutting edge of perfomance, and sings about his determination to seize the award.
  • "Rush Hour" is mostly a Villain Song for the Empress, but features repeated arguments between her and Hat Kid as the Empress sings about her determination to catch her target and Hat Sings about hers to escape.
• Rage Against the Heavens: Alluded to in "Vs. Admin Jupiter", wherein Jupiter declares that Team Galactic's "grand intentions extend to the heavens".
• Rape, Pillage, and Burn: The subject in Ridley's song. It recounts his invasion and the subsequent massacre of the K-2L space colony Samus was born to in the official manga.
• Recycled Lyrics: Star Dream (which covers Star Dream's battle themes from the main story) repurposes some of the lyrics from the Songtober version (covering Star Dream Soul OS's battle themes), befitting of an A.I computer designed to serve a corporation.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: One of the Legendary Bytes, Groudon vs. Kyogre, portrays the titular legendaries as an antagonistic (to each other) example of the trope, with Groudon portrayed as the harsh and loud red oni to Kyogre's liquid-smooth and calm blue oni.
• Run or Die: "Nosk" opens with a choir of Nosk's victims chanting "Run, run," indicating that they believe this is the only option for the Knight to survive this battle. The Knight still fights Nosk directly like in canon, though.
• Self-Deprecation: "Gruntilda Battle" has this exchange:
  Gruntilda: (Now) take this battle seriously!
  Kazooie: It's a Man on the Internet song. When are those ever serious?
• She Is the King: Morpho Knight calls itself an "underworld king" despite being given a feminine voice, so it could either be this (if it is female) or Vocal Dissonance (if it is male).
• Shout-Out:
  • Dingodile references "Never Smile at a Crocodile" from Disney's Peter Pan film in his song.
  • "O'Chunks, Warrior" has references to Hamilton and Team Fortress 2.
  • In his Freaky Fettucine videos, the voice he does for Jeff the Killer is the same Northern English accent that the Bad Creepypasta guys gave him.
  • In the "Gruntilda Battle" cover, Banjo and Kazooie early on reference the lyrics to Juno Songs' "Spiral Mountain" cover.
  • In his "Garten of Banban" song, he references the lyrics of the Spider-Man cartoon.
    Nabnab: Spider-Mascot, Spider-Mascot, does whatever my spider ass got! Open mouth any size, for burgers and fries, or you little guys in ascots!
  • "Pepsiman Theme" references several superhero themes; namely, Perry the Platypus, and the theme songs of the Spider-Man and Teen Titans cartoons.
    He's a spandex-wearing, soda-flinging man of action! He's got a bubbly smile, a soft, sweet hand, and several other soda-themed attributes! His taste is number one, and he's always up for a run! And the women swoon whenever they hear him say-ee-ay-ee-ay-!
    Pepsiman, Pepsiman, does whatever a Pepsi can! With a splash of sugary taste, Pepsiman wins the race! Look out! Here comes the Pepsiman! Is he fast? Listen, bud! He's got vanilla in his blood! Can he surf down a pipe? Look at that curvy white stripe! Hey there, there goes the Pepsiman!
    When there's trouble, you know who to call! (Pepsiman!) From his Pepsi HQ, he brews it all! (Pepsiman!) When the world is plagued by thirst, let me tell you, that's the worst, he won't be stopped by falling garbage cans! (Pepsiman!)
    With a carbonated brew, maybe with a hint of lime, clad in white and blue, he arrives just in time! Pepsiman, Pepsiman, certified quality, Pepsiman! Wealth and fame, he's ignored! Pepsi is his reward!
  • In "THE MEGALOVANIA APPEARS", every instance of the line "Skullmageddon is in your home!" after the first is accompanied by a quip in the voice of Skullmageddon from Double Dragon Neon.
    "The song's not even about me!"
• Shut Up, Kirk!: Lusamine responds to her daughter's Calling the Old Man Out by simply disowning her.
• Sir Swears-a-Lot: Tankman, from his "Ugh!" cover, is this, as usual.
• Skewed Priorities: Throughout the cover of Overdue, even while Mr. L (not the actual man of mystery, by the way) recalls his tragedy and taunts Pico about it, Pico clearly couldn't care less, more focused on getting out of the haunted cartridge and finding Boyfriend than he is about himself being in danger or the twisted entity in front of him.
• Spiritual Successor: In an unintentional way, his Wood Man with Lyrics video could be one for Hyadain's Mega Man 2 Robot Master videos, as he hasn't done Air Man or Wood Man's videos, and Air Man's already known for a song about his difficulty.
• Straw Nihilist: In Cannon Ball, Omega reveals that he supports Weil's goals not just because of his programming, but because he believes civilization is doomed to warfare and isn't worth saving. In this case, he doesn't lament it, but instead sees it as an opportunity to indulge in his bloodlust.
• Subverted Rhyme Every Occasion: Used rather creatively in "BIG SHOT", with Spamton's particular way of speaking.
  My name is Spamton and I am here to sell
  Those who live in darkness will get dragged to [HEAVEN]
• Suddenly Voiced: A good number of characters who don't have any voice lines in their game of origin are voiced during some songs.
  • Both of the musicals apply this trope to nearly every character who speaks in the entire musical. In particular, Frisk, Crono, and Lavos never get any spoken lines in the games proper, but have dialogue fully implemented into the script and are voiced.
  • While Mr. L (aka Luigi) does have voice lines in the game proper, every other character in the Super Paper Mario Musical Bytes has this trope applied to them.
  • A particularly noteworthy example of this is the Vessels in the Hollow Knight Musical Bytes. While the Knight remains a Heroic Mime as in canon, the Broken Vessel and the Hollow Knight both sing throughout their respective songs, presumably as a result of the Infection.
  • Morpho Knight never makes a sound in either of its appearances. Here, it's given a low, feminine voice.
• Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: During his Sonic.exe reading, Alex proposes an alternate ending where the protagonist gets a virus trying to download the haunted disc onto his computer because Sega Genesis games are not .exe files.
• Take That!:
  • The Enemy Approaching Standalone Song (Noteblock Remix) pokes fun and questions the morality of the monsters in Undertale being perfectly fine with killing Frisk, a child by the way, and have done this before to 6 other innocent children and criticising of the game's accusations of you as a murderer for murdering a single monster even it was by accident.
  • "Gruntilda Battle WITH LYRICS" has Gruntilda mocking Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts by pointing out the poor reviews it got. Banjo thought it wasn't that bad, but Kazooie begs to differ.
  • His video Ralsei is A GIRL and YOU PROBABLY ARE TOO makes fun of Treesicle for the eponymous theory the channel created.
  • Raidshadolovania is one big Take That towards Raid: Shadow Legends...set to the tune of Megalovania.
  • During his MST of Mario.Exe, he mocks the (over)usage of Zalgo text via an image popup.
    zalgo hasn't been scary since 2009, when this generator was made
  • Mario.Exe also has a jab towards MediaFire, saying the protagonist will get "a million and two" viruses for downloading something off of it.
  • In his ''Sans the Killer" reading, the story has Sans be the first character introduced, with Flowey and Toriel absent. Alex comments that he's seen so much fan content about Sans and no one else that he might as well be the only character in the eyes of fans.
  • When the writer of a creepypasta says that everything Tara Strong touches "turns to gold", Alex cites Drawn Together and its movie as a counter-example.
• Take That, Audience!:
  • Many of the Megalovania clones are jabs towards the incessant complainers who wanted him to do more Megalovania covers.
    • This is covered further in the "Turnabout Internet" cover, with Phoenix Wright and Maya Fey interrogating Alex concerning these covers.
  • "Among Us The Musical!" was a Take That! towards the people who wanted him to do an Among Us music video just because the game was popular, despite the game lacking any real soundtrack. It's a four-second video of Alex singing "Hey, somebody's dead!" to one of the game's musical stings. Lampshaded in the video description.
    Description: Based on the music of the hit video game, Among Us!*
    * Among Us does not have music
• Triumphant Reprise:
  • Hat Kid reprises her lyrics from "Mafia Town" in "You Are All Bad Guys" in response to Mustache Girl's own Dark Reprise:
  Hat Kid (during "Mafia Town"): Oh, can it be? What's this I see? / A whole town of criminality / It's time for me to get my hands dirty / And bring the peace / If we all work together / Believe in one another / Our world could make wonders / Everyone racing straight to the stars!
  Hat Kid (during "You Are All Bad Guys"): What I've come to realize / Is when you moralize / You won't make friends of enemies / Or bring the peace / 'Cause we all live together / It's been like this forever / Everyone is a wonder / And we're shooting straight towards the stars!
  • "Megalomania" has a vocal version in Yoko Shimamura's memória! album. It is a Villain Song for Odio, the Big Bad of Live A Live, and details his feelings of depair. MotI's cover of "Megalomania" instead expresses the heroes' determination to fight against Odio's hatred.
• Token Good Teammate: Among the Legendary bytes, Ho-Oh and Arceus are the only Legendaries that aren't trying to destroy the world, kill the protagonist, or are misanthropic in some way.
• Took a Level in Badass: The eponymous character in the second verse of Hornet outright said that Ghost was weak when they first met, and now fighting it is actually a real challenge.
• Valkyries: Morpho Knight outright calls itself one, along with rallying departed souls by crying that Fólkvangr awaits.
• Villain Song: Many of them. Just to name a few - Dimentio, Marx, Ridley, Dingodile, the Snatcher, Molgera, Gruntilda, Dark Samus, and Plague Knight.
  • In the "Behind the Lyrics" video to Super Paper Mario Musical Bytes, he admits, "I write a lot of villain songs...like, a lot a lot of villain songs". (In context, it's a note that the theme running through Count Bleck's "Champion of Destruction" is different from what he calls a "big, bombastic villain song".)
  • On Halloween 2022 he released his first original composition, which is one of these for William Afton.
  • Some of the Pokemon songs are this — "Vs. Guzma", "Vs. Lusamine", "Vs. Giratina", "Vs. Kyurem Black", "Vs. Ultra Necrozma", "Vs. Galactic Commander Jupiter" and "Groudon vs. Kyogre" (for an Evil vs. Evil variant) are notable examples, while "Vs. N" and "Vs. Zinnia" are Well-Intentioned Extremist variants. "Vs. Eternatus" is a partial example, as while Eternatus is the Big Bad, Zacian, Zamazenta, Gloria and Hop join in to counter it. "Vs. Penny" is a subversion, as Penny turns out to be a sympathetic Anti-Hero.
• Villain Team-Up: "The Ultimate World Spun", sung by Dimentio, Jevil, and Marx.
• Villainous Breakdown:
  • There's a bit at the end of "Dingodile," where Dingodile claims to have "snapped."
    Mate, now I'm rapt! Dingodile's snapped!
  • Reclusa starts off his song gleefully singing of the world of isolation he's going to bring about. But as the fight goes on his iritation boils over repeatedly until the final verse of his song, which is based on the final phases of his fight after his Weeping Core form is destroyed. Reclusa makes a death threat to Mario and Luigi to start off the verse and declares his fury, and most of his lines are more screaming and ranting than actual singing.
    My perfection you spurn! So your bonds will burn!
    I give you a reality in a playground for only me!
    You think escape will set you free!? There is nowhere beyond my reach!
  • In "Awakening", Grand Mother Silk spends most of the song haughty, arrogant and sure of her own divinity, but as the fight wears on and Hornet whittles down her health, her lyrics become increasingly aggressive at her "daughter's" defiance, and by the time the Soul Snare is activated she drops all civility and shrieks out her intention to drag Hornet down into the Void with her.
    I SHALL NOT SUFFER ALONE!!!
• Vocal Dissonance: If not She Is the King. Morpho Knight calls itself "an underworld king," implying that it is male, despite its feminine voice.
• Voice of the Legion: It's not uncommon for particularly powerful characters to have these. In variations where a second, deeper voice is layered over the first one, the deeper voice will often be in harmony with the main one, or tuned to match the chords of the song, creating a pleasing, yet intimidating, effect.
• Water Is Womanly: Of a sort — Kyogre has No Biological Sex, but it's given a feminine voice in the Legendary Bytes for "Groudon vs. Kyogre" and is the embodiment of the oceans. This contrasts with the more masculine-sounding Groudon, who represents fire.
• Wolverine Publicity: The thumbnail for Darkest Lord shows Sans as the eponymous Final Boss despite it actually being Tom, his voice actor.
• World of Ham: A common result of a theme month is the sense of the world the theme month is set around being filled with very hammy, very dramatic characters who are more than willing to dramatically sing their praises.
• Worthy Opponent: Zinnia in "Vs. Zinnia" feels this way towards the protagonist, admitting that they're worthy of Rayquaza's blessing and that they have disrupted her plans whilst still fighting against them and trying to put her plan back in motion.
• Yarling: Kyle and Juno's duet as Mario and Luigi in "In the Final" gives the brothers rather nasally singing voices that, when combined, create a rather poignant vocal inflection.