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Heävy Mëtal Ümlaut
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Ëvërÿthïng's mörë mëtäl wïth ümläüts. Maybe it's becäuse they can make änything look vaguely Germänic, and everything söunds scarier in German. Or maybe it's jüst because they look cöol, especially whën they're printed in a Göthic typeface. Either way, the diaeresis has becöme the text equivalent of giving ä Devil-hörned salute. Despite the title, however, the Heävy Mëtal Ãœmlaut is sometimes used in music genres besides metäl. Othèr űnnæcessÃ¥ry diácrîtiçal mârks, Faцx CyÑ�illic, and gratuitøus slashed ø's alsø shów up occâsioñally in mûsic, althøugh theý're Иot as pøpular or icônic of metäl as the ümläüt. Excessive use of this trope becomes £33†. Ãœsed very frequently in parödies, where band names can even have Um̈lauẗs over con̈son̈an̈ẗs; in fact it's well on its way to Discredited Tropedom if it's not there already. It must be nöted that this tröpe is about the gratuitoüs usage of umlauts, not "any usage of umlauts". Some artists from countries where umlauts are used in the local language have a genuine ümlaut in their band or personal names. Einstürzende Neubauten and Björk are therefore not examples of this trope. Incidentally, the only letters in German that include umlauts are ä, ö and ü. They are pronounced, respectively, as: the e in bed (like a combination of a & e); a French "eu", which happens occasionally in English such as the i in sir (o + e); and a French u, made by forming the letter o with your lips, and voicing "eeeee" (u + e). The bands should therefore be pronounced "Mo-tuhrr-head" and "Blue Uhy-ster cult". (If you have a non-rhotic accent, the first two sounds are changed to "air" and "ur".) Ironically, the idea that a heavy rock band could make itself look hard and tough by adding umlauts is one that provokes amusement among many native German speakers, who apparently associate the letter "ö" with "cute", "sweet", "cuddly"... Not to mention, "ü" definitely resembles a smile. In common Metal parlance, however, gratuitous umlauts are not pronounced, but this hasn't stopped fans of Queensrÿche asking about the Ÿ. Gratuitous umlauts usually cause unnecessary embarrassment amongst native speakers of those languages whose orthography does use umlauts. An umlaut usually denotes the vowel is pronounced as frontal. Ä denotes a frontal a, like "cat", while A without umlauts is the back vowel, like "car". Likewise, Ö denotes a frontal o phoneme [usually denoted in English as ir or ur ], not unlike "sir", while O without umlaut is back vowel O, like "dog". Languages which use umlaut vowel shift are German, Swedish, Finnish, Skolt Sami, Karelian, Estonian, Hungarian (which also has long umlauts), Luxembourgish, North Frisian, Saterlandic, Emiliano-Romagnolo, Rotuman, Slovak, Azerbaijani, Turkish, Tatar, and Turkmen. Often Ä and Ö are treated as completely separate letters from A and O, appearing at the end of the alphabet beyond Z. Not to be confused with the diaeresis (also called trema), which looks identical to umlauts. A diaeresis is used to indicate that a vowel is pronounced separately when it would either be part of a diphthong or else silent. In English they were traditionally used in vowel pairings where the second vowel is pronounced in a separate syllable, hence they are found in archaic spellings of words such as coöperate, preëmptive or Zodiäc. This usage is largely obsolete, though it is still part of the house style of The New Yorker magazine and MIT Technology Review, but survives in words like naïve which are borrowed from languages which do use diaereses to varying degrees, and in cases such as the Brontë siblings (indicating the "e" is pronounced, not silent). It's found in French (naïf, Noël), Spanish (ü only, in words such as pingüino or lingüÃstica where it indicates that the "u" doesn't merely make the "g" hard but is pronounced itself as "w"), Catalan (qüestió, aigües), and other languages such as Occitan, Guarani, Galician, Luxembourgish, and Afrikaans. (Portuguese used to have it too before language reforms). Subtrope of Myspeld Rökband. See also Xtreme Kool Letterz and Punctuation Shaker. Using accented letters to indicate characters speaking another language is a form of Painting the Medium, instead. |
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The World Ends with You features the band Def Märch. | |
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Rock Band 2 has an achievement called "Needs More Umlauts!", which is awarded the first time you create a band logo. This is a double reference to Blue Öyster Cult, who started this trope and gained more popularity through SNL's "Needs More Cowbell" sketch, which the Rock Band games make a LOT of references to. | |
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Parodied in Kröd Mändoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire. | |
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The Simpsons: In the "Treehouse of Horror V" segment "Nightmare Cafeteria", the "OKTOBERFEST" sign has umlauts over the "K" and one of the "T"s. | |
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Hüsker Dü took their name from a Norwegian phrase (literally, "do you remember?") and added gratuitous umlauts. They used the name because they didn't want to be pigeonholed as just another Hardcore Punk band. | |
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Borderlands 2 does the Spın̈al Tap equivalent, where Captain̈ Flyn̈t's Boss Subtitles has umlauts over the N's in his name. | |
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In Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People: Baddest of the Bands, Strong Bad forms a band with the King of Town and Homsar in his effort to win the Battle Royale of the Bands (reluctantly, since they were the only people not already in the contest). They end up calling themselves D-Ö-I. Also, when looking at the banner for Bubs' and Coach Z's band, Two-O-Duo, Strong Bad mentions that the name would "be much cooler with a few umlauts". |
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Also invoked as soon as Mike and the 'Bots see the title of Deathstalker and the Warriors from Hell: | |
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In Zodiac, a local metal band is mentioned, and off-handedly dismissed by a metal fan as a "two-umlaut band". | |
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In an episode of Reaper, a wannabe rocker/Dreadful Musician whose great idea of a stage name is just "Ryan" almost does a literal Deal with the Devil and becomes the even-more-ludicrous-sounding "Ryän". | |
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Motörhead There was a funny real-life incident when Motörhead was playing in Germany, and the fans chanted the bands name as it's pronounced in German. Like the Motley Crue example, this could just be an urban legend, though, since it wouldn't be pronounced all that differently than it is in English. And within Motörhead, their guitarist Würzel Title of their 2010 album and the following tour: The Wörld is Yours. Germans can't mispronounce this, by the way. There is a German cover band called AD/AC Motörwelt (which, you guessed it, covers AC/DC and Motörhead). The name is strictly for puns sake - ADAC Motorwelt is the journal of the ADAC, the largest German car interest club. |
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In an episode of ¡Mucha Lucha!, Rikochet is defeated by an American wrestler whose overpowering heavy metal theme music is played by a band called "Oom Lowt." | |
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Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts: In "Cactus Town", the gang meets the Umlaut Snäkes, talking snakes who adopt exaggerated rocker personas. | |
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In The Muppet Show, The Swedish Chef's rendition of "Popcorn" is spelled "Pöpcørn"note In case anyone is curious the Swedish word for Popcorn is, well, "popcorn". Since the word is imported directly from English however, it does not follow phonetic standards. A Swedish rendering of how the word is actually pronounced would be "påppkårn". | |
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Monty Python and the Holy Grail has the Swedish subtitles under the opening credits. | |
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Don't Starve has Wigfrid, An actress pösing as a valkyrie. Every single "O" that she says will be an "Ö". Sö her speech söunds sömething like this. | |
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Brüno (2009), which without the umlaut would be a common German name. With it, it sounds vaguely French and somewhat feminine. | |
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Parodied in This is Spın̈al Tap, where the band's name◊ has an ümlaut over the "n". Unicode represents it as "Spın̈al Tap", since not only does the n have an ümlaut, but the i has no dot over it. While the dotless i does exist in Unicode (for example, in Turkish), the n with an umlaut doesn't, which makes it a bit trickier to type (you have to use a "combining diaeresis" character). (For the record, the character n̈ does in fact exist in some Mesoamerican languages, where it represents the same sound as English -ng.) |
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Home Movies: Duane's garage band SCÄB, with music by (the Real Life) Brendon Small, whose other cartoon band Dethklok is curiously ümlaut-free (although the band logo sometimes stylizes it as DëthkløK). | |
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Twenty One Pilots is usually spelled with a slashed o in its name, purely for decoration. | |
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In the Escape Velocity data files, every EV-specific resource type includes a gratuitous umlaut (e.g. "shïp" for spacecraft, "düde" for named characters, etc), to avoid collisions with the built-in system resources. | |
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Spümcø, the animation studio that originally produced The Ren & Stimpy Show. Speaking of Ren, his last name is "Hoëk" (pronounced "HO-ek"). | |
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The Crüxshadows. | |
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Things Mr. Welch Is No Longer Allowed to Do in an RPG has a dwarven bard named Rjägnjär Hjëllstjürm who puts umlauts over every vowel, and includes a silent J in each syllable. | |
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A.R. Kane's Spiritual Successor group Jübl, which has no official pronunciation. | |
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The Colbert Report has "The Wørd". Colbert also did a segment parodying stereotypes about the Nordic countries which ended with Finland taking over the USA (thereafter spelled "ÜSA", even though Finnish doesn't use that letter). |
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The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson: ASS MÖDE. | |
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Phineas and Ferb includes a recurring '90s Hair Band called Love Händel. Taken together, the misspelling and the umlaut suggest Georg Frederich Händel. | |
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Bloom County. Deathtöngue. "A bird on the bass, a tongue - what a face! At best, the music can best be described as lame..." | |
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Not an example: In The Lord of the Rings and other works by Tolkien, the Elvish language Quenya has diaeresis that are superfluous, but not random (that is, they're predictable and they can be left out without change of pronounciation or meaning). They're mostly there to remind English speakers to pronounce final E's (as in únótimë) and split combinations of vowels that don't form a diphthong (as in Eärendil). On the other hand, his use of acute and circumflex accents is significant and marks a difference in pronounciation. | |
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Parodied by The Onion with "Ünited Stätes Toughens Image With Umlauts." | |
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Used and discussed in an episode of Taskmaster (appropriately called "Rock and Roll Umlaut"), during a task requiring teams of contestants to design an iconic rock music album. Joe Thomas and Sian Gibson call themselves "Shoe" and name their album "It's Too Big", with umlauts over the 'e' in "Shoe", the 's' in "It's" and the 'g' in 'big'. When questioned as to the prevalence of umlauts, Joe admitted they were gratuitous in the "Motley Crue" vein and weren't intended to be grammatically correct, leading to a Title Drop. Amusingly, the rest of the album cover appears to be more of a slightly goth indie / electronic techno-pop style along the lines of Kraftwerk more than heavy metal. | |
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Hanazuki: Full of Treasures is stylized this way on its logo, with the "n̈" and "ü" vaguely resembling a frowny and smiley face, fitting the show's theme about moods. | |
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In one Mystery Science Theater 3000 sketch, Crow changed his name to Cröe, helpfully coaching Mike on proper pronunciation. Also invoked as soon as Mike and the 'Bots see the title of Deathstalker and the Warriors from Hell: |
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Faces of Death, the infamous Mondo film, was hosted by "Dr. Francis B. Gröss." | |
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In Year Zero, one of the characters — who is made out of a substance that is literally the heaviest metal in the universe — is named Özzÿ. | |
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Hot Tub Time Machine has Mötley Lüe, Lou's multi-platinum-selling band in which he rose to fame after deciding to stay in the past. | |
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The DCU used to have a city called Blüdhaven, which was to Gotham City as New Jersey is to New York and was so dark and corrupt it grew an ümlaut. It mainly appeared in the Nightwingnote Dick Grayson was on the police force for a while., Robin (1993) and Batgirl (2000) books, but was eventually destroyed during the Infinite Crisis crossover event. At least one Cosmic Retcon later, it returned in Nightwing (Rebirth), in which Nightwing explains to out-of-towners that it is in fact "Blewd-haven", not "Blood-haven". | |
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Subverted by Italian rock band MÃ¥neskin, winners of the Eurovision Song Contest 2021. Yes, they chose a name with a diacritic to look badass, but it is the actual spelling of the Danish word for Moonshine (the bass player is half Danish). | |
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Irenes from Chrono Cross has this is her Verbal Tic. | |
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The Fairly OddParents!: The episode "Where's the Wand?" features a Bavarian folk band (?!?) in lederhosen called "Der Rolling Hösen". note ("Der" is wrong too, technically it would be "Die". But that might confuse a non-German.) | |
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Deathmøle from Questionable Content. | |
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The My Immortal Parody fic My Mëtäl, or simply My Metal, also parodies this trope mercilessly, along with Metal Head stereotypes. The author even made it as part of the rules for the fic's official Drinking Game to take a shot for every umlaut in the fanfic. | |
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In PVP, most of the main cast are members of the fictional band "Djörk"... "Nerd rock forever", as one of them put it. Originally, they wanted to call it "Umlaüt" but it turned out to have been already taken by a real band. | |
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One of the characters in Guitar Hero is named Lars Ümlaüt. | |
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Rap duo Dälek (pr. "die-uh-lek") use the umlaut to combine the word "dialect" (as pronounced in exaggerated rap dialect) with the popular Doctor Who villains. A neat little three-layer-cake of a pun. As in his lyric "Deadverse spoken with broken dälek" |
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Ring of Honor has the Dark Action Girl Power Trio The Allüre, Angelina Love, Velvet Sky and Mandy Leon. | |
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Magma is an odd non-metal example. The band's name proper has no umlaut, but since their lyrics are mostly in a fictional germanic-sounding language, they employ umlauts profusely in their album and song titles, e.g. Mëkanïk Destruktï� Kömmandöh. | |
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In Kamen Rider Gaim, the Transformation Trinket is the Sengoku Driver. Fitting in with Gaim's samurai theme, "sengoku" refers to the Warring States Era, but in this instance the "goku" means "extreme" rather than "states". Fansubbers Æsir Woolseyized this as the Wärring Driver with an umlaut over the A. However, this created problems later on when it turned out that the belts were named for their creator, Ryoma Sengoku, forcing them to refer to him as "Ryoma Wärring"note The Æsir team later said that if they had known about Ryoma from the start, they would have kept the "Sengoku" name. | |
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Ecstatica, or E�stati̊ca, features a heavy metal caron as well as a an I with a ring (which doesn't exist in Unicode and has to be composed using a combining character). Cover art here. | |
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Rodrick's band Löded Diper from Diary of a Wimpy Kid (though Greg says he probably doesn't know how to spell "Loaded Diaper" anyway). | |
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In Gold Digger, when Gina defeats the merged Armageddon, the explosion is a massive BÃœM. | |
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Used repeatedly in Erfworld where the protagonist's army consists of a medley of heavy metal references. | |
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Bad Machinery used an umlauted band, Lünk, in a strip discussing a rocker vs. mod war. (Link) | |
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One Homestar Runner Halloween cartoon has, as a Shout-Out to Mötley Crüe, Homestar selling a concoction labeled "Witch's Brüe". | |
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The first mark in The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile is the banker... named Barön Ömötö. However, the one voice clip that plays (an advertisement) pronounces all the ö's long, making his name sound like oe-MOE-toe. | |
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Parodied in Counterfeit Monkey, where an umlaut punch puts umlauts into any word you give it, turning it briefly into the abstraction of a fake heavy metal band. | |
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Yahtzee in his review of the game consistently tries to pronounce it "Brew-tal Legend". In the credits he states that since he's studied German he's not letting the umlaut go unpronounced. | |
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One of the Breaking Bad minisodes reveals that Jesse and his friends used to have a band named TwaüghtHammër. | |
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Bennett the Sage's review video has, in its description box on YouTube, "Ünnëcëssäry ümläüts? Höw vëry mëtäl!" | |
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