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* [[Chekhov's Skill]]: {{spoiler|Power-slides and cock push-ups}} both turn out to be very useful tools for stealing the Pick of Destiny.
* [[Chess With Death]]: [[Dissimile|Not so much chess as a rock off, and not so much Death as Satan himself.]]
* [[Cluster F -Bomb]]: Throughout the movie, but especially whenever Jables is improvising song lyrics. Just listen to "Classico".
** Satan's initial boast and reaction definitely qualifies. See [[Oh Crap]] below.
* [[Et Tu, Brute?]]
* [[Fantasy Forbidding Father]]
* [[Foreshadowing]]: Jables' father warned him that the rock music would make him Satan's puppet and bring chaos to the world. He would have been right if Jables and Kage hadn't defeated Satan in the rock-off.
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* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]] Jables and Kage Their "Friendship Song" on the original Tenacious D album.
** Kage refers to Jables as his "partner" in an awkward way in the sequence where they're apart.
* [[Hey ItsIt's That Guy]]: [[Tropic Thunder|Jeff Portnoy]] escapes the tyrannical rule of his dad [[The Rocky Horror Picture Show|Eddie]] by being inspired by [[Ronnie James Dio|the greatest voice in heavy metal history]], starts a band with... [[You Know That Guy|What's His Face]], receives cryptic advice from [[Meet the Parents|Gaylord Focker]], dreams of performing in front of [[Enchanted|Giselle]], is nearly killed by [[The Shawshank Redemption|Andy Dufresne]] & has a battle of the bands with The Devil... who looks a lot like [[Foo Fighters (Music)|That One]] [[Nirvana|Drummer]].
** [[How I Met Your Mother|Marshal Erikssen]] shows up in a deleted scene, mocking Cage savagely.
* [[Idiot Ball]]: {{spoiler|JB agrees to put KG up as a bet for their rock-off with the devil...despite the Devil having said that he literally CANNOT decline a rock-off challenge.}}
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* [[Louis Cypher]]: {{spoiler|The open mic night host.}}
* [[MacGuffin]]: The eponymous Pick of Destiny.
* [[Magic Feather]]: An inspiring, heart-rousing speech about how "[[Family -Unfriendly Aesop|the devil is inside all of our hearts]]."
* [[Metalhead]]
* [[Mushroom Samba]]: When Jables gets lost out in the woods, he survives by eating unidentified mushrooms, which results in this trope.
** Specifically, he has a trip wherein he becomes a baby sasquatch, and then begins singing about how his dad is awesome and shall protect him.
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: {{spoiler|Literally, breaking it: Jables and Kage fight over the pick and break it in half. It then gets picked up by the devil, and [[Oh Crap|the shit immediately hits the fan.]] }}
* [[No Indoor Voice]]: An in-story example, Jables ends up daydreaming that with the eponymous pick, his voice will become so loud he will lose any need for microphones.
* [[Oh Crap]]: The song that plays when Satan gets the pick
{{quote| '''Satan''': ''I AM COMPLEEEEEEEEETE!''<br />
'''[[Tenacious D]]''': Fuuuuuuuuuuu-''[[Atomic F -Bomb|uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck!]]''<br />
'''Satan''': YES, YOU ARE FUCKED! SHIT OUT OF LUCK!<br />
NOW I'M COMPLETE, AND MY COCK YOU WILL SUCK! }}
** Satan gets one a few seconds later:
{{quote| '''Jables''': "Wait! Waiit, you muthafucka! We challenge you to a rock off! Give us one chance to rock your socks off!"<br />
'''Satan''' (realizing he can't decline because of the demon's code): [[Cluster F -Bomb|*angrily*]] "FUCK! '''FUCK!!''' *dramatically* '''''FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK...'''''" }}
** Satan gets yet ''another'' one when {{spoiler|after accidentally blowing off his own horn, he realizes that he has given Jables a way to send him back to Hell.}}
* [[Parental Favoritism]]: ''"You disobeyed my orders son, why were you ever born?/Your brother's ten times better than you, Jesus loves him more!"''
* [[Double Standard Rape Male On Male]]: Suggested between Satan and Kage.
* [[Rock Me, Asmodeus]]
* [[Rule of Cool]]: Overused in the songs to the point that it becomes [[Crosses the Line Twice|funny]] how much it's overused. Particularly in the Master Exploder dream sequence.
* [[Rule of Funny]]
* [[Satan]]
{{quote| '''Satan''': ''[[Large Ham|I'M THE DEVIL!]] '''[[Chewing the Scenery|I LOVE METAL!]]'''''}}
* [[Sex, Drugs and Rock And Roll]]: During the reunion, Kage says it was supposed to be in that order. Kage goes off to a party, Jables into the forest and eats [[Mushroom Samba|mushrooms]], and then they both get the Pick together.
* [[Shout Out]]: The Devil's guitar is Dimebag Darrell's famous lightning bolt Dean ML.
* [[Slasher Smile]]: Jack Black shows his off a few times, revealing that it looks like a cross between the Joker and the Grinch.
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* [[The Power of Rock]]: Obviously. Taken to ridiculous extremes in "Master Exploder" and "Beelzeboss (The Final Showdown)".
* [[Unnecessary Combat Roll]]: Jables does some while breaking into the Rock and Roll History Museum, and yet the camera continues to see him ([[The Guards Must Be Crazy|and only the camera]]).
* [[What Do You Mean ItsIt's Not Awesome?]]
** "It's a sign...a legacy. *proceeds to show birthmark on ass*
** "Taste my lightning, fuckers!"
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