Rock Me, Asmodeus/Playing With

Basic Trope: The devil (and those influenced by him) is extremely talented for Rock music.

• Straight: Abbadon Raum, lead singer and guitarist of the Hell's Knights, made a deal with Satan. Now he's the most successful and virtuous Rock musician on Earth, but in order to keep his power, he must convert as any souls to Satan's cause as possible, which turns to be incredibly easy thanks to the almost hypnotic power of his lyrics.
• Exaggerated: In one of the biggest and most important concerts ever performed by the Hell's Knights, the Prince of Darkness himself manifests into the scenario and starts Epic Rocking along with the band. Their performance and lyrics are so sublime and powerful, that even the most zealous Christians among the public (and the immediate surroundings!) convert to his evil cause on the spot. And he wasn't using any kind of brainwashing powers! His music was just that good!
• Downplayed: The Hell's Knights are your run-of-the-mill Doom Metal band which overdoses its music and style with Satanist imagery and references; but otherwise, they don't have an authentic connection nor contract with the Lord of the Pit. They aren't even that impressive nor commercially successful.
• Justified: The devil is talented at every type of music, but rock is currently popular with the easily-influenced youth.
• Inverted: Instead of Satan, Jesus is the one that turns to be the greatest Rock prodigy of all time... OF ALL TIME!
  • Or: Satan is actually allergic to Rock music, which makes him cower in fear and agony.
• Subverted: Satan may help some individual rock musicians, but personally he thinks rock is just noise and much prefers classical music.
• Double Subverted: ...Or so he says to the heroes to make them stop their effective campaign against his favorite musical genre.
• Parodied: Satan declares himself to be the greatest Rockstar that has ever lived because he can get drunker than anyone, bangs the hottest groupies, spends lots of money into frivolous luxuries, always turns his concerts into great scale riots, gets into media scandals and is an overall galactic scale diva and an insufferable douche! Nevertheless, all true Rock musicians immediately call him for being a frikkin' poser that entirely missed the point: Rock music isn't about acting like an idiot, but about giving a great show!
• Zig Zagged: Satan keeps changing his mind about whether to promote rock or polka.
• Averted: Music does not feature in the work at all.
• Enforced: The lead writer of the show is on full Author Tract mode: He genuinely believes that Rock music is a hellish instrument used to convert people to Satan's cause, so he expects that by presenting it into a negative light, he will save the souls of the "confused" youths that enjoy "perverted" music.
• Lampshaded: "I might have no sympathy for the Devil... But you gotta admit he knows how to pull a kickass guitar solo!"
• Invoked: Satan abducts Jimi Hendrix from Heaven, and forces the legendary guitarist to teach him into the ways of Rock, so that he can use the power of music to gain souls for his cause.
• Exploited: After a group of aspiring musicians behold a sample of Satan's incredible rock-powers, the Fallen Angel himself makes them an offer: Unholy talent and success in exchange for their souls and/or the conversion of their audience to their cause.
• Defied: A talented young rocker fires his manager when he suggests a more Satanic lyrical direction.
• Discussed: ???
• Conversed: ???
• Played For Laughs: ???
• Played For Drama: Adam Lonestar, prodigious Rock guitarist, challenges Satan to a guitar duel in order to save his father's soul. Unfortunately, despite being a great musician himself, the skill and power of the devil turns to be beyond human's reach, rendering his greatest efforts into an futile road into oblivion. Now, not only his father's soul has been lost, but so is his.

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