Megadeth/YMMV

• And the Fandom Rejoiced:
  • Oh, man, a 20th. anniversary tour celebrating Rust In Peace...yeah, yeah...wait... DAVID ELLEFSON RETURNS TO THE BAND? Awesome!
  • And now, they're playing the Big Four fests! AWESOME!!!!
  • And now the original Clash of the Titans lineup is touring the US this fall!
• Award Snub: Nominated ten times for the Best Metal Performance Grammy, ten times denied.
• Awesome Music: Start with Killing Is My Business... and go from there.
• Badass Decay:
  • At some point in time, Marty Friedman became hooked on Marimite. He even wrote one of the ending themes, potentially Real Men Wear Pink.
  • Friedman's lived in Tokyo since 2003, speaks fluent Japanese, plays for J-pop singers (among others) and hosts two metal-themed TV shows. Quite busy.
• Dork Age: As said before, the period between Youthanasia (or Cryptic Writings) until the band's reunion and The System Has Failed.
• Ear Worm:
  • Insomniamniamniamniamniamniamniamnia
  • Fight, Fight, This Day We Fight, Fight, Fight, Fight, This Day We Fight!
  • Set the ball a-rollin, I'll be clicking off the miles, on the train of consequences, my boxcar life o' style...
  • Hello me, it's...me again...
• Epic Riff: "Holy Wars... The Punishment Due", "Hangar 18", "Symphony of Destruction", etc.
• Fanon Discontinuity:
  • The end of Megadeth's most acclaimed period is Youthanasia, and people might stop there. Some people add The World Needs A Hero and some add Crypic Writings. Some others add both of them. More still will add the post-2004 albums (The System Has Failed and onwards). The only general consensus is that Risk is the "worst" (read: least metal) of the twelve albums, and most fans would rather it hadn't been released.
  • Or, if an album doesn't have ellipses in either the title or a song within it, it isn't canon. This of course means everything between Rust In Peace and The World Needs A Hero doesn't exist, so make of that what you will.
• Fandom Rivalry: Mention Metallica to a Megadeth fanboy and watch your hope for humanity start to dwindle.
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff:
  • They're considered idols in Argentina. Megadeth themselves recorded a live album there as a recognition, called That One Night: Live In Buenos Aires.
  • During the band's performance of "Coming Home" from said live album, Mustaine announced to the Argentinian crowd that Megadeth will continue as a band.
• Growing the Beard: Their most remembered era takes place in almost the entirety of The Nineties, more exactly, the time between Rust In Peace (1990) and Cryptic Writings, (1997) including both albums.
• Internet Backdraft: Pretty much the metal community's reaction to Dave's endorsement of Rick Santorum, which is quite possibly the complete opposite of what you would expect from a Heavy Metal band.
• Memetic Badass: Shawn Drover.
• Memetic Mutation:
  • So far, Dave himself was subjected to this, ranging from a facepalm, to his "bashings" towards James and Lars.
  • LIFE?! What do you mean LIFE?! I ain't got a LIFE!
• Misblamed: While people blame Executive Meddling for what became Risk, Dave has admitted in interviews that he's as much to blame for it as anyone else. As mentioned above, Cryptic Writings got the band increased mainstream attention (though not increased album sales), and Dave effectively decided "Hey outside songwriters! This mainstream attention thing is pretty cool....let's have some more of that please!" He also stated in his autobiography that Marty Friedman was getting tired of metal and itching to move to other styles, and some of the musical changes were done to appease him keep him around long enough to complete the album. The result...was not quite what he (or anyone else) wanted.
• Moral Event Horizon: Mustaine's racist and anti-gay remarks. Even people who were able to put up with his various feuds were not able to look past the unfortunate comments he's pulled.
• Narm Charm:
  • The lyrics often end up like this, most notably on "Peace Sells". Not that that's a bad thing...
  • Especially the spoken word parts of "Sweating Bullets"
  • "the wheels on the bus go round and round" *loudass drums*
• Nightmare Fuel: The lyrics for "Good Mourning/Black Friday", especially the latter song.
• Tear Jerker: "A Tout Le Monde".
• They Changed It, Now It Sucks:
  • Regarding Mustaine remixing and remastering all of the albums from Killing Is My Business... through Risk while he was recovering from the arm injury. While they have cleaner production, insightful liner notes, lots of pictures, and plenty of bonus tracks, the changes can be a bit disquieting from the originals. Generally, people will agree that the remasters of Killing Is My Business... and So Far, So Good...So What! improved those albums tremendously. Opinions are more sharply divided about the other albums, and the remaster of Rust In Peace suffers a bit because the master vocal tracks for "Take No Prisoners", "Five Magicks", "Lucretia", and "Rust in Peace...Polaris" were lost. Mustaine re-recorded the vocals for "Prisoners" and "Rust" and used B-take vocal tracks for the other two.
  • Dave himself wanted to do further work on the really poorly-produced So Far, So Good...So What!, but invoked this trope as a justification: he had been pissed off by Jimmy Page's remastering of Led Zeppelin albums that took out all the superfluous squeaks and details.
• Tough Act to Follow: Endgame is usually considered by fans to be one of Megadeth's best albums, while TH 1 RT 3 EN is heavily YMMV in comparison to it.