The Main Character by Will Wood (Lyric Video)

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  • @BigD283
    @BigD283 ปีที่แล้ว +3088

    Why do I feel like the main character would sing this in a musical after someone goes "Yeah right nerd, who do you think you even are?"

    • @portfoliosandinkproduction5037
      @portfoliosandinkproduction5037 ปีที่แล้ว +190

      YOU GET IT!! You've just given me another whole new perspective on my favourite song of all time!! :DD

    • @BreadLoeuf
      @BreadLoeuf ปีที่แล้ว +123

      Seems like an opener song. I've always conceptualised what a The Normal Album musical would look like, to be honest. I also really think this album has a lot of musical potential (maybe just rearrange some tracks).

    • @Scp682-uncontained
      @Scp682-uncontained ปีที่แล้ว +34

      YES THAT IS THE PERFECT SCENARIO

    • @Josh11902
      @Josh11902 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      In my case, I believe it’s a bad main character, like Joker from the hit movie “Joker” (idk why I chose that example)

    • @Theunofficialhamilton
      @Theunofficialhamilton ปีที่แล้ว +3

      There are 666 likes, so sadly I can't like because I don't want to be the person that messes ( did I spell that right?) It up..

  • @Nat-nq5nw
    @Nat-nq5nw ปีที่แล้ว +1010

    My theory is that the villain has accidentally killed the protagonist during their first confrontation (the first scene) and now he is desperately playing the role of the hero but is doing a poor job at it.

    • @TheBeanPerson
      @TheBeanPerson 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +158

      So kinda like Megamind?

    • @Nat-nq5nw
      @Nat-nq5nw 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +41

      @@TheBeanPerson yeah!

    • @thecrystalliaguild
      @thecrystalliaguild 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

      This is so funny and cool

    • @Sgtturtle22
      @Sgtturtle22 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +57

      This song seems like the main character become the main antagonist and murders someone after singing this in the story just to get paid attention to for sure

    • @meothory
      @meothory 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +30

      "I mean, imagine if protagonists just died at the first scene?"

  • @skypuppeteer
    @skypuppeteer 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +645

    Will Wood's music is made *_infinitely_* better with stock photos slapped onto it and thrown around on screen like a child's unloved doll

    • @C_Films.
      @C_Films. 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +36

      Even my loved dolls were throw around and drowned

    • @I.Over.Explain.Things
      @I.Over.Explain.Things 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +30

      “Thrown like an unloved doll” is such a fire line

    • @1stPersonNarrator
      @1stPersonNarrator หลายเดือนก่อน

      I show my love to plushies by abusing them, if they were unloved then i would ignore their presence.

  • @lambiegabby4055
    @lambiegabby4055 ปีที่แล้ว +1498

    I always imagine a random guy singing this song of how important he is to the story,while the actual protagonists are watching in horror as he makes a fool of himself. He never appears after the episode he is in.

    • @frocco7125
      @frocco7125 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Me toooo

    • @elfgooby9650
      @elfgooby9650 ปีที่แล้ว +219

      I would feel like he would try to kill the main character. Trying to become the main character. And then he eventually would get a spin-off show and realize he doesn’t want to be the main character.

    • @lambiegabby4055
      @lambiegabby4055 ปีที่แล้ว +101

      @@elfgooby9650 that a cool idea. For me, I see a guy who is described as “an arrogant and delusional loser” by his own family. So much so that he decides that he wants to be the main character in the series he is in. He was a background character in about five episodes, but now he wants to take center stage. In the foretold episode of this hypothetical show, the arrogant guy tries to butt in what the main antagonists are doing so that he can make it all about himself. The characters get annoyed by him,and they try to get rid of him. But to no avail. Then the guy breaks into this song singing about how important he is,making everyone around him uncomfortable. After the song is done,he gets either killed by a villain or dies in another way. Never to be seen again. The characters don’t really care that he is dead,and just carry on like nothing happened. The lesson is this: if you want to be loved and praised by your peers,all you have to do is be a good person and treat others with respect. Don’t be an utter asshole because you think your better then everyone. Unfortunately,Dennis learnt that the hard way.

    • @insanitysymphony9175
      @insanitysymphony9175 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      ​@@elfgooby9650theres an anime like that it's called the hero is already dead

    • @elfgooby9650
      @elfgooby9650 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@insanitysymphony9175 ooh, that seems cool. I will watch it

  • @chadspamton2159
    @chadspamton2159 ปีที่แล้ว +1263

    “Look in the sky,
    It’s a bird! It’s a plane!
    *NO ITS SUPER EGO!”*
    Such a fun line

    • @1-800-baby-hotlinee
      @1-800-baby-hotlinee ปีที่แล้ว +11

      FRR

    • @kat-sm7hf
      @kat-sm7hf ปีที่แล้ว +9

      real

    • @fries5849
      @fries5849 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +28

      I really love the follow up line “The under dog ya cheer for”
      Not only is it delivered really well but it’s kinda funny, and wraps up the phrase really well.

  • @onewiththevoid6605
    @onewiththevoid6605 ปีที่แล้ว +896

    If you listen to the lyrics closely it kind of sounds like the hero, slowly becoming the villain, without realizing it

  • @ThatsJustOTM
    @ThatsJustOTM ปีที่แล้ว +1624

    This feels like a Bo Burnham Song on steroids.

    • @ariellegrz915
      @ariellegrz915 ปีที่แล้ว +129

      You said what I was thinking, but with better grammar

    • @pardoxia7242
      @pardoxia7242 ปีที่แล้ว +232

      Will Wood looked at "Welcome To The Internet" and thought, "I can make that more unhinged."
      And it turned out AWESOME

    • @PrinceLearStan
      @PrinceLearStan ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Tru dat

    • @Anne_rlene
      @Anne_rlene ปีที่แล้ว +10

      it sure does

    • @kradziejusto9495
      @kradziejusto9495 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      YES

  • @zabbee2323
    @zabbee2323 ปีที่แล้ว +366

    This song makes me want to create a webcomic about a guy who's mediocre at best in, well, just about everything, but has deluded himself into thinking that he's a main character in his universe. (With added irony that he's the protagonist of the comic) He expects everyone to treat him as the center of the universe, but is so over the top and theatrical about it no one can take him seriously. And the webcomic is just him stumbling through life, embarrassing himself over and over, but forever being blissfully ignorant due to his boundless ego.

  • @TacticalAnthony
    @TacticalAnthony ปีที่แล้ว +260

    I LOVE BADASS SIDE CHARACTERS WHO DONT SPEAK
    GOTTA BE MY FAVORITE GENDER

    • @itsathing3369
      @itsathing3369 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Oh yes, the two genders main character and bad ass side characters

    • @lordfawful2329
      @lordfawful2329 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Enri Purgatory best gender confirmed.

    • @mint_marigold1229
      @mint_marigold1229 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      gradient joe

    • @pinky_pepper
      @pinky_pepper 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      Perry the platypus lmao

    • @user-iy3nt5mm2v
      @user-iy3nt5mm2v 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@pinky_pepperFeel like Ferb should count too even though he gets at least one line per episode lol

  • @CWorthStudios
    @CWorthStudios ปีที่แล้ว +2040

    Fun fact: I like side characters and antagonists over main characters, even in my own stories. Is that a good thing? Who knows

    • @Sandiwichi
      @Sandiwichi  ปีที่แล้ว +436

      Antagonists are always the most fun and interesting part of any story

    • @CWorthStudios
      @CWorthStudios ปีที่แล้ว +99

      @@Sandiwichi I could create a vast list of antagonists that would make a better story by putting everyone on the list in one story and forgetting about the protagonists.

    • @GlipGlig
      @GlipGlig ปีที่แล้ว +91

      It's normal. The main character is the main meat of the story while the antagonist directly argues against the main character's beliefs, which are usually the most moral, which can create a more interesting character. Side characters are like the audience, just viewing the dilemma.

    • @dreamii._
      @dreamii._ ปีที่แล้ว +5

      agreed

    • @gimmickgotbored7157
      @gimmickgotbored7157 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Make those the main characters instead

  • @jonunya6552
    @jonunya6552 ปีที่แล้ว +178

    one thing i think is interesting is how the narrator insists that they’re the good guy, up until the end where they switch “imagine if protagonists just died in the first scene” to “image if antagonists lacked any evil scheme”. For most of the song, they’re trying to justify themselves and their actions with lines like “villains are everywhere, that’s how i know that i’m the hero!” but then they stop. They don’t care if they’re the good guy or even a good person as long as they get to be the main character

  • @changednamelit
    @changednamelit ปีที่แล้ว +618

    This makes me think the guy knows hes the MC, but that doesn't mean he knows what the best choices are. He did terrible things and sacrifice others so that he, the MC can survive.
    The song delves into him trying to explain to people that he only did those things bc hes the MC and he cant die so early, snapping at people in the last verse. (But I ain't done a fucking thing to you) Ironically, its unclear if there even is an antagonist with an evil scheme.

  • @5ome5tranger
    @5ome5tranger ปีที่แล้ว +785

    "imagine if protagonists died at the first scene" *danganronpa v3*

    • @emiborgir
      @emiborgir ปีที่แล้ว +44

      Kaede...😦

    • @CaribouGutSludge
      @CaribouGutSludge ปีที่แล้ว +31

      too soon man... too soon....

    • @PrinceLearStan
      @PrinceLearStan ปีที่แล้ว +31

      BRO THAT'S LEGIT WHAT I THOUGHT OF WHEN I HEARD THAT LINE LMAO-

    • @emiborgir
      @emiborgir ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@PrinceLearStan same💀

    • @linnhardin8982
      @linnhardin8982 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      FR I THOUGHT THE EXACT SAME THING!

  • @Furious_Furry
    @Furious_Furry ปีที่แล้ว +750

    Why do I feel like a villain who got bullied in school would sing this?

    • @TheMain__Character
      @TheMain__Character ปีที่แล้ว +39

      I bet the master(from Doctor who) would sing this

    • @FLYING_MOONPIES
      @FLYING_MOONPIES ปีที่แล้ว +14

      I feel like this is if a narcissist had a Disney song.

    • @rodrigorosa4419
      @rodrigorosa4419 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @Federal Puro of Investigation well, he IS the main character, just not the hero

    • @Sednas
      @Sednas ปีที่แล้ว +2

      ​@@TheMain__Characterthis song literally mentions Daleks

    • @TheMain__Character
      @TheMain__Character ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Sednas I know

  • @that1_redacted875
    @that1_redacted875 ปีที่แล้ว +632

    Why does this song fit my antagonist more than my protagonist

    • @izurukamukura9095
      @izurukamukura9095 ปีที่แล้ว +71

      It could be seen as someone seeing themselves as overly justified, and believing that everyone else *has* to like them no matter what, and if they disagree then they're automatically in the wrong. This song is basically the entire mindset of Handsome Jack from Borderlands, who is my favourite villian in all of fiction.

    • @frocco7125
      @frocco7125 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Everybody loves villain songs

    • @abigailgriffin-wc3fm
      @abigailgriffin-wc3fm ปีที่แล้ว +30

      Because I believe that it's in point of the song

    • @_-drowsy-_
      @_-drowsy-_ 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      That’s the fucking point

  • @KaixoDenek
    @KaixoDenek ปีที่แล้ว +509

    Why do I have an image of this teenager who is just an average person and they keep imagining themself in all these cool roles as the protagonist or antagonist of different stories and they are imaging themselves as the main character of these stories and they are basically trying to say what the song is saying "don't come at me, i'm the main character so he have to like me" and they're basically having a breakdown while singing this song and imagining themselves as the main characters in different stories

    • @bee-yg9yq
      @bee-yg9yq ปีที่แล้ว +64

      its me im the teenager

    • @sepphie469
      @sepphie469 ปีที่แล้ว +48

      @@bee-yg9yq it's WE. we are the teenager 🤝

    • @freyzerb.castro9124
      @freyzerb.castro9124 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      For me I just get the image of this well dressed and overly narcissistic, arrogant dude that from the outside seems to embody the archetype of the hero but cares more about being popular and recognized than whatever the hell this whole "Hero" thing is

    • @KaixoDenek
      @KaixoDenek ปีที่แล้ว

      I didn't realize people commented on this

    • @KaixoDenek
      @KaixoDenek ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@freyzerb.castro9124 your idea made me think of a dude from like the 1800s

  • @tregrenos8615
    @tregrenos8615 ปีที่แล้ว +204

    I wonder if when we “hear the boss music play” THIS is what the boss hears? It’d certainly drive me to kill the source of it. 🤣

    • @TheGamerTamerTMFormallyCozmo
      @TheGamerTamerTMFormallyCozmo ปีที่แล้ว +11

      So do you like the song or not lol

    • @cherrybee95
      @cherrybee95 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      @@TheGamerTamerTMFormallyCozmo I think it's just cause of how pretentious the singer would have to be to sing this unironically and mean it

  • @EBProductionss
    @EBProductionss ปีที่แล้ว +464

    Mr.Bean is the main character

  • @Helloknight
    @Helloknight ปีที่แล้ว +246

    “imagine if the protagonist died in the first scene”
    why did i immediately think of magnus chase wtf

    • @umcanalai.7956
      @umcanalai.7956 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      So true

    • @StringsWilbur
      @StringsWilbur ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Wait you guys know that series, can we be friends:)

    • @tshellion713
      @tshellion713 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@StringsWilbur I'll be your friend!

    • @tshellion713
      @tshellion713 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@StringsWilbur Both because you are a DSMP and a Magnus Chase fan.

    • @otterrama9718
      @otterrama9718 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      YES YES YES 😂

  • @SOPHI529
    @SOPHI529 ปีที่แล้ว +700

    Using this song for my school drama auditions, personal time stamp for where to start when rehearsing: 3:28
    Update: I GOT A BIRD GIRL

    • @TheWoov
      @TheWoov ปีที่แล้ว +42

      Good luck with the audition/Hope u got the audition. Whichever ones the case

    • @SOPHI529
      @SOPHI529 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      @@TheWoov thanks! They’re posting the cast list tomorrow or the day after, I’ll say how it turns out! :D

    • @SOPHI529
      @SOPHI529 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      @@TheWoov I GOT ONE OF THE BIRD GIRLS

    • @mozieroll
      @mozieroll ปีที่แล้ว +31

      @@SOPHI529 idk if this is good or bad but either way congratulations

    • @kaleidoscope5054
      @kaleidoscope5054 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      @@SOPHI529 congrats!

  • @Boiled_Cabbage
    @Boiled_Cabbage ปีที่แล้ว +96

    2:15, if you don’t know, “da, das vedanya” is a way to say goodbye in Russia

  • @70Lu07
    @70Lu07 ปีที่แล้ว +80

    This makes me think of a musical where the antagonist can break the fourth wall, and uses this to gaslight the audience, with his first song being this one

  • @Ouch193
    @Ouch193 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +41

    3:52 I love how… whimsicaly angry this part feels. It’s just… good.

  • @enderazzy358
    @enderazzy358 ปีที่แล้ว +72

    I want a movie called "who's the protagonist" that starts with "the main character" singing this song and mid-song he gets shot in a drive-by and we cross pan to a detective investigating the scene and like an hour into the movie when he's confronting the mastermind he gets shot in the back of the head by his partner and now the movie follows her as she shoots the master mind and we get her backstory explained and after another hour of following a heist she's doing she gets caught and given the death sentence as we move over to this song starting again from a different "the main character".

    • @-Cony-610
      @-Cony-610 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I wanna write a story about this now

  • @loftydabird54
    @loftydabird54 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

    I love how towards the end the singer has sorta come to terms with them self and is like "yeah maybe I am the bad guy, but I'm the main character and you WILL like me"

  • @Anindeterminateamountofbees
    @Anindeterminateamountofbees 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

    “Imagine if protagonists just died in the first scene” *looks suspiciously at magnus chase*

  • @monochaos9442
    @monochaos9442 ปีที่แล้ว +275

    I feel like Mindy Kaling heard this song and took it to heart when making Velma

    • @stitchychu
      @stitchychu ปีที่แล้ว +20

      nahhh 💀💀

    • @zoeiszoeyt265
      @zoeiszoeyt265 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Fr💀

    • @User.name2
      @User.name2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      PFFT-

    • @khaosinkorporated9493
      @khaosinkorporated9493 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I feel like the Star Wars sequel writers took this to heart while making Rey.

    • @izurukamukura9095
      @izurukamukura9095 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Implying Mindy Kaling has enough taste in music to listen to this.

  • @yes713
    @yes713 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

    HOW DID I JUST FIND OUT THAT WILL WOOD IS A DOCTOR WHO FAN???

  • @UltimateBodyguard.
    @UltimateBodyguard. 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +25

    " Imagine if protagonists died in the first scene "
    Kaede : ...

  • @ShayMcSudonim
    @ShayMcSudonim ปีที่แล้ว +609

    So there's going to be multiple ways to interpret anything, but rather than talking literally about fiction, I get the feeling that this song is speaking metaphorically about reality.
    That is, this is meant to be from the viewpoint of someone extremely arrogant who speaks from a position of privilege. As the song goes on, more and more political references get dropped (astroturf, overton, alternative facts, and I'm pretty sure Zyklon B is a reference to the holocaust). Either this is a character from an extremely realistic story, or it's a real person who sees reality as ficiton.
    At least, that's what I get after a few listens. Could very well be I'm missing something.

    • @definitelynotsiri4058
      @definitelynotsiri4058 ปีที่แล้ว +63

      I agree that it’s about 10 million times too on the nose to literally be about fiction. I was introduced to this song in the context of it being “about how social media enables and radicalizes narcissism” so I’ve been listening to the song under that context. IMO that interpretation makes the most sense; the general extremely over the top nature of the lyrics (imagery of cartoon superheroes and villains, royalty, etc) is slightly more reminiscent of social media culture. I imagined it as this very mediocre guy who probably had an inherent narcissistic streak and is a social media addict. The aforementioned nature of social media allows him to reach deluded levels of that narcissism over very basic stuff; “Villains are everywhere, that’s how I know that I’m a hero… And I outsmart them with a ray-gun **and a tweet. ** Sorry this is fairly repetitive

    • @aarinhartog6434
      @aarinhartog6434 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      You know I was going to roast you for theorizing something so obvious but looking at the comments apparently people are actually missing this. There is no such thing as a mention of Zyklon B that isnt a reference to the Holocaust. Like the song couldn't be more obvious that it is sung from the point of view of a person who is pathologically self centered.

    • @howunexpected5584
      @howunexpected5584 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      WAIT THE HOLOCAUST 😰

    • @atomicwinter31
      @atomicwinter31 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      I love interpreting, but there's something about Will Wood songs that are strange.
      They're so seductive, like they're just waiting to be interpreted in a million ways.
      Yet will wood himself has said his songs aren't an essay. They arent meant to always have a theme, a cohesive story, or an interpretation.

    • @sunsetbreaker1881
      @sunsetbreaker1881 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      yeah that's me
      you better be talking about me rn

  • @B-ray77
    @B-ray77 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    3:59 Antagonist
    2:24 Protagonist

  • @XenophobicAirport
    @XenophobicAirport ปีที่แล้ว +58

    Rather than this being in a literal sense, I feel this song is about someone with narcissistic personality disorder.
    It sounds like someone's ego protecting themselves from the fact they're a prick to everyone around them.

  • @AdamOfIngolstadt
    @AdamOfIngolstadt ปีที่แล้ว +64

    THE FUCKING STOCK PHOTOS KILL ME

  • @jasonhanlan999
    @jasonhanlan999 ปีที่แล้ว +46

    I personally view this as a song about a main character that hates being the main character and just wishes to be seen as a regular guy "so God forbid im seen as just an average human being"

    • @accountrandomnumber182
      @accountrandomnumber182 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      "I'm the main character and you have to like me'

  • @Windy_Floof
    @Windy_Floof ปีที่แล้ว +70

    If will wood ever has a musical this better be the first song

  • @shazaz1059
    @shazaz1059 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    This sounds like someone who's incredibly aware that they are the main character in their story but are starting to absolutely hate it as random shit constantly gets thrown their way "god forbid I'm seen as an average human being"
    "I ain't done a fuckin thing to you" sounds like someone who's very exhausted of constantly being thrown into some situation with a villain who hates them for no reason other than the fact that they are the protagonist

  • @callmejt2519
    @callmejt2519 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +68

    I’ve heard so many interpretations about this song. My personal favorite one is how it’s actually about a narcissist who believes they are owed respect and how people HAVE to like them simply due to the fact that they are the main character

  • @etanexsists3086
    @etanexsists3086 ปีที่แล้ว +44

    I have an idea for something based on this, a character who would have no importance to the story usually starts changing the entire storyline to fit them being the main character, like bringing in villains to fight to show strength, saving people in distress and normal protagonist things all while the main characters watch in fear at what they are doing, later on they would befriend one of the main characters to get closer to there true goal, being a true main character. Near the end they realise that they will never be the protagonist with out the real protagonist gone, so they try to kill them and they have a battle to the death that lasts almost an eternity because they both have plot armor.

    • @bebebonb0n
      @bebebonb0n 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      This is literally what Vriska Serket does holy shit

    • @thomascochran7907
      @thomascochran7907 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I love that idea! My idea of is kinda like a fairy tale world were all the main cast have a powers that ties them to a arch type, except the main character who is essentially a background character that stumbled into the story. He does a lot of important things, makes important choices and suffers a lot but throughout the story theirs this undercurrent that the only beings that matter are “named” characters. The cast even has theories that he has a secret archetype. After a traumatic event where tons of background characters die yet the “main character” lives and he seems to be the only that that actual takes it seriously he breaks and convinces himself he survived because he’s the main character and their no other reason he would. He becomes the villain and starts treating archtypes like background characters, that’s when the story switches to another background character that becomes the main character. Whether the first main character is defeated or redeemed could change depending on how the story goes.

    • @etanexsists3086
      @etanexsists3086 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@thomascochran7907 this is amazing

  • @Youhakedme
    @Youhakedme 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

    This song reminds me of the main character who slowly goes mad from pressure so he becomes this guy whose so full of himself and u cant do anything about it cuz hes the hero and he begins to snap

  • @GlitchedMuse
    @GlitchedMuse ปีที่แล้ว +81

    I could 100% see this being sung by Deadpool.

  • @skye4082
    @skye4082 ปีที่แล้ว +63

    I've been obsessed with this song for a few days, I'm listening to this on repeat and stimming SO HARD the ENTIRE TIME, its awesome :D

    • @sunkistbilly123
      @sunkistbilly123 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Its so fking good i can feel the energy

    • @grigglitch5113
      @grigglitch5113 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Samee I can’t stop listening to itt

  • @asyalengdon9822
    @asyalengdon9822 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    “Imagine if protagonists just died in the first scene”
    Wei Wuxian dies literally in the first sentence and things are only getting better.

  • @BlueGelatin
    @BlueGelatin ปีที่แล้ว +277

    This is awesome. Hope you get an A+ and a scholarship

  • @boi7316
    @boi7316 ปีที่แล้ว +47

    "I mean, imagine if the protagonista just dies in the first scene"
    That's why we have isekai/rebirth anime/mangas/manhwas in the first place.

    • @amazinggrapes3045
      @amazinggrapes3045 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      🚛

    • @boi7316
      @boi7316 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@amazinggrapes3045 yes, but don't forget about his brother, Car-kun.
      And alsohis cousins Heatstroke-chan, sui•••e-kun, mur••r-kun, and others.

  • @GivingAHootAboutOwlkalinity
    @GivingAHootAboutOwlkalinity 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    The fact that I've seen people do videos on Tiktok and Instagram using the chorus of this song as a completely literal statement...

  • @Shades781
    @Shades781 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    Sounds like a mix of ego because he's a protagonist but he also resents the role heavily.

  • @Jack-lo5me
    @Jack-lo5me ปีที่แล้ว +103

    I’m writing a fan fic where the new MC meets up with the MC of the game that the story is a continuation of. In the original story, the MC basically becomes super powerful, yet not omniscient or anything. More like… “I can do anything I want but it might take time to plan it out and I’ll need some pawns to do it” kinda powerful. He IS also a colossal magical threat.
    Anyway, the new MC basically has the same type of power as the old MC, but with a few exceptions.
    For one, for most of the fan fics story, the new MC, just call him Jack, is doing basically what the old MC did in his game, but he is doing it alone. No backup or other units or anything. Just him and his demon servents that are part of the whole “one power” thing.
    And while the enemies that Jack is fighting aren’t AS powerful as the ones that the main character of the game fought, it’s still very impressive.
    Anyway; my point being, this song encapsulates exactly what the feeling of the old MCs would be.
    Jack has been getting stronger and stronger. He is more moral, treats others kindly, refuses to kill people that attack him first, ect.
    Old MC wanted to have Jack be his servent, which would then give HIM command over all the demons Jack has command over once he becomes as powerful as he can be.
    But Jack is basically being a BETTER MC, and in the story, you can tell that the old MC is kinda terrified. That this person is basically gonna take over his status as “most important”.
    Now, Jack had no actual intention of going that far…
    But when the old MC gets violent, and threatens Jack and his loved ones..?
    Well… self fulfilling prophetic guess.

    • @retii5047
      @retii5047 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Sounds really cool, where can I find it?

    • @Jack-lo5me
      @Jack-lo5me ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@retii5047 its neither done nor will I probably ever post it anywhere.

    • @sheltiesongs7378
      @sheltiesongs7378 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@Jack-lo5me please post it! I’m dying to read it and create art!

    • @hi-zx6sb
      @hi-zx6sb ปีที่แล้ว

      I have a question: is jack an orphan

    • @Jack-lo5me
      @Jack-lo5me ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@hi-zx6sb No; but he is Ostracized after he fights some angels using demonic power during the apocalypse…
      Actually I’m planning to make Jack have to fight his mom. Kinda… so basically the angels are using humans for their own means, and Jack is going against them. That kinda thing.

  • @ratrattyratterson
    @ratrattyratterson ปีที่แล้ว +24

    This song would fit a protagonist that becomes obessed with the feeling of being a hero and slowly becomes the "antagonist" or bad-guy.

  • @T1DAL-RUSH
    @T1DAL-RUSH 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

    I feel like this song is about an MC who’s tired of being praised. They just want to be treated as a normal human being and are singing this song in a sarcastic manner. They just wanna settle down but keep getting summoned for missions and other hero stuff, so they end up just sucking it up and purposefully snapping at people who dote on them and request their aid

    • @deplizz7859
      @deplizz7859 หลายเดือนก่อน

      no

    • @T1DAL-RUSH
      @T1DAL-RUSH หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@deplizz7859 Okay

  • @laughisfun2003
    @laughisfun2003 ปีที่แล้ว +84

    Ah yes, I a song that I can finally resonate with.

  • @kitsuujujitsuu4025
    @kitsuujujitsuu4025 ปีที่แล้ว +102

    This song reminds me a lot about my favorite character from a show. He is one of the protagonists and is very full of himself. The shoe even acknowledges this as a flaw, and shows character development. Very cool!

  • @Starjellybear
    @Starjellybear ปีที่แล้ว +19

    I think of this as steve in Minecraft, you can do whatever you want, but in survival most people play a route where they maximize the amount of recourses they can get, wich usually means exploiting every mob they possibly can. Also with things like piglians and illager attacking you when you go near there bases and steal their stuff logically and canonical makes sense. Don’t even get me started on what they do to those villagers.
    Ether way, even if canonical these characters are scummy, even evil in some cases, we are no better, and in that case, Steve is no better.

  • @a_cute_bear2977
    @a_cute_bear2977 ปีที่แล้ว +90

    This song is perfect for my story I’m working on. No one good nor no one’s good but one person needs to act like there the main character so the story can coutine even if she didn’t want to.

    • @OwoAshes
      @OwoAshes ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Ooh

    • @a_cute_bear2977
      @a_cute_bear2977 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@OwoAshes I’ve exactly really close to getting It the bait reading stage^^

    • @gh0st1e7
      @gh0st1e7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Do you have any updates or somewhere where can I see it? I am very curious cuz this sounds very cool

    • @a_cute_bear2977
      @a_cute_bear2977 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@gh0st1e7 mhm!! I’m working on the characters backstory’s on wattpad atm

    • @gh0st1e7
      @gh0st1e7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@a_cute_bear2977 So cool!! I wish good luck!!

  • @doberman3402
    @doberman3402 ปีที่แล้ว +99

    This is the most entertaining lyric video ive ever seen. I love it. I felt like watching a whole musical. Fantastic man keep going.

  • @Azure_KH
    @Azure_KH ปีที่แล้ว +10

    "imagine if the protagonist just died in the first scene"
    Isekai : im not even here baby, im just a hallucination.

  • @Helicidae
    @Helicidae ปีที่แล้ว +31

    honey it's 3am, time to have an episode to the main character by will wood

  • @elliotclay3864
    @elliotclay3864 ปีที่แล้ว +63

    We all do what we need to to get through

    • @Sandiwichi
      @Sandiwichi  ปีที่แล้ว +25

      (Its nothing new)

    • @therealglenbenton
      @therealglenbenton ปีที่แล้ว +17

      @@Sandiwichi BUT I AINT DONE A FUCKIN THING TO YOU!

    • @M30WME0W
      @M30WME0W ปีที่แล้ว +6

      BUT I AIN'T DONE A FUCKING THING TO YOU

    • @elliotclay3864
      @elliotclay3864 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      So god forbid I’m seen just as an average human being I mean

    • @therealglenbenton
      @therealglenbenton ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@elliotclay3864 I mean,

  • @gh0st1e7
    @gh0st1e7 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    For some reasons I see it as a main character that went through so much and just wants it to stop, but he can't so he copes it through fake self confidence and awful toxic positivity

  • @cantalnoise
    @cantalnoise ปีที่แล้ว +11

    I love unreliable narrators

  • @sunacchi9402
    @sunacchi9402 ปีที่แล้ว +74

    took so long for there to be a lyric video TT
    thank you for the upload

    • @Sandiwichi
      @Sandiwichi  ปีที่แล้ว +19

      For my school project I had to have a lyric video of the song I was using, and the only one I could find was in SPANISH. So i was forced to make my own lol

    • @sunacchi9402
      @sunacchi9402 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@Sandiwichi ahh i see, well i help you get a good grade!

  • @fandomfreakofshame4960
    @fandomfreakofshame4960 ปีที่แล้ว +63

    I genuinely like Snidely Whiplash as a character but he's pretty underrated so to hear him name dropped is pretty cool

  • @Ullmina
    @Ullmina ปีที่แล้ว +12

    2:48 That was literally a jumpscare wtf

  • @_-drowsy-_
    @_-drowsy-_ 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    This PERFECTLY fits my character! He isn’t cocky in the traditional way of “oh I’m so great” but he think everything is about him and tries so hard to play hero, and does succeed for a while, but it’s all only for the admiration and power, so eventually he has a “nice guy” type tantrum when people call his bluff. I love my little asshole.

    • @avacadotoast5571
      @avacadotoast5571 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      He sounds so pathetic. I love him.

    • @_-drowsy-_
      @_-drowsy-_ 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@avacadotoast5571 ikr he is pathetic

  • @nickythehickey
    @nickythehickey 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    ngl the thumbnail scared the shit out of me

  • @ashcommittedarsonbutinasexyway
    @ashcommittedarsonbutinasexyway ปีที่แล้ว +191

    (it's a good lyric video, i just have a hard time remembering the next lyric lol)
    I'm that first person they talk about in all the books
    I'm that perspective you cannot doubt, see how I look
    Control the narrative reliably, baby, it's all about me
    And I wrote the book about throwing the book at those who don't do it by it
    So now I'm holding myself hostage, Stockholm lust just looks like justice
    And enough lefts don't make the right but two wrongs do
    Oh man, Sun Tzu would love this
    Beating my dead high horse off the high road to low ground
    'Cause if you shake your fist at snakes in grass
    It looks like punching down
    So God forbid I'm seen just as an average human being
    I mean, imagine if protagonists just died in the first scene
    I'm the gap between a tragedy and comedy
    Don't come at me
    I'm the main character and you have to like me
    I loot plot armor from NPC's
    Well, they are to me
    Trite, tropes, traits, traumas, trinkets, and treats, it's all XP
    Look in the sky, it's a bird, it's a plane, no, it's superego
    The underdog you cheer for
    Villains are everywhere, that's how I know that I'm a hero
    So tie me to the train tracks, laugh and snidely twist your mustache
    Snidely Whiplash, Boris Badenov, ignoring me's bad enough
    Where do you get off? Da, das vedanya, darling
    Daleks in high collars monologue and I outsmart them with a ray-gun and a tweet
    So God forbid I'm seen just as an average human being
    I mean, imagine if protagonists just died in the first scene
    I'm the gap between a tragedy and comedy
    Don't come at me
    I'm the main character and you have to like me
    Judge me by what my cover shows, author becomes beyond reproach
    You don't know the prose or if the spine is still intact
    Oh, like Alice fell to Wonderland, come astroturf my Overton
    And bolden my demand to live by alternative facts
    Her majesty says "The Royal, we demand a standard of loyalty
    An agreement to be reverent, lick the emperor's new boots
    The court fool got the guillotine, the witches the stake, you the dopamine
    And Siemens made the Zyklon B but we all still get the flu
    We all do what we need to to get through
    (It's nothing new)
    But I ain't done a fucking thing to you"
    So God forbid I'm seen just as an average human being
    I mean, imagine if antagonists lacked any evil scheme
    I'm the gap between a tragedy and comedy
    Don't come at me
    I'm the main character and you have to like me

  • @paprika059
    @paprika059 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Id like to hear a story of a main characters written to be so beloved in its fictional world while hated/beloved in reality. The story ends with him realizing he is the main character, becomes hated in his world, becomes the villan at the *last second* and dies. _"But I'm the main character, you cant do this, YOU HAVE TO LIKE ME!!!"_ would be his last words before they get the guillotine

  • @thomascochran7907
    @thomascochran7907 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I have a idea of this, kinda like a fairy tale world were all the main cast have a powers that ties them to a arch type, except the main character who is essentially a background character that stumbled into the story. He does a lot of important things, makes important choices and suffers a lot but throughout the story theirs this undercurrent that the only beings that matter are “named” characters. The cast even has theories that he has a secret archetype. After a traumatic event where tons of background characters die yet the “main character” lives and he seems to be the only that that actual takes it seriously he breaks and convinces himself he survived because he’s the main character and their no other reason he would. He becomes the villain and starts treating archtypes like background characters, that’s when the story switches to another background character that becomes the main character. Whether the first main character is defeated or redeemed could change depending on how the story goes.

    • @Ember_Trans_Cat
      @Ember_Trans_Cat 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      so that was fucking brilliant and i want a webtoon with that concept on my desk by noon
      and i want a desk

  • @bonboomori
    @bonboomori 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    The jumpscare in this got me

  • @transgenderfroggy
    @transgenderfroggy 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Yup, definitely making a story based off of this

  • @jefflagustin7587
    @jefflagustin7587 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    "Imagine if protagonist just died in the first scene"
    Nanao in talentless nana

    • @flowclown9179
      @flowclown9179 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Isekai protagonist

  • @VFM_of
    @VFM_of 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    2:44
    Context: I'm alone at home is 1:50 in the morning and some minutes before my front door opened somehow (it was locked, and "no one" opened it) I'm hearing strange noises and when I look back to the video this is what I see
    ..I never got soo scared in my life

  • @Tophats_are_cool
    @Tophats_are_cool 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Truman if decided to stay and went insane

  • @sheebeebug
    @sheebeebug ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I love the Doctor Who reference 😄

  • @acirebonkabonk8884
    @acirebonkabonk8884 ปีที่แล้ว +58

    Hehe, I really love the pictures you added in this! Makes it seem more like a comedy in that way.

  • @Esther-ow7zg
    @Esther-ow7zg 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    DASJHFJAS this helps me erase all the bad feelings and just dance in the most bizarre way asdjfaksdjf

  • @rosesandsilver5604
    @rosesandsilver5604 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    This feels like someone who was normal and average but then got thrusted into heroism and keeps having to live up to that title constantly so they snap and just sort of embrace the narcissistic role of “the hero”-but it’s a traditional kind of hero, the ones we look at now and wonder about because they destroy so much and are terrible people sometimes but the plot just kinda works out for them.

  • @GrayLou
    @GrayLou ปีที่แล้ว +8

    "Imagine if protagonists just died in the first scene"
    Magnus Chase: "and i took that personally"

  • @MexicanWolf-lf3bn
    @MexicanWolf-lf3bn 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Booster Gold. The Hero you never heard of. Saving timelines from the background away from the other Justice Leaguers, while no one will ever recognize his work. Except for his best friend Ted Kord.

  • @DhruvDame-ml2kt
    @DhruvDame-ml2kt ปีที่แล้ว +10

    This is probably the perfect song for my depressed class clown friend

  • @Oceane1803
    @Oceane1803 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Imagine a Mary Sue protagonist who can't take all the attention and everything the story puts them through so they lose their mind and become evil.
    Or maybe they manage to go through this situation with the support of Mr. average background character as they share their pain of being the center of attention at all times for one and to be a nobody for the other.

  • @Sgtturtle22
    @Sgtturtle22 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    This song seems like the main character become the main antagonist and murders someone after singing this in the story just to get paid attention to

  • @irradiatedpacific
    @irradiatedpacific ปีที่แล้ว +21

    this is the personal anthem of every middle schooler

  • @cyberwolfy37
    @cyberwolfy37 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    ok wow
    "beating my dead high horse off the high road to low ground, 'cause if you shake your fist at snake in grass it look like punching down"
    how does he comes up with these lines?
    the weaving of saying and expression is simply masterful.

  • @kimmertz-ft1bl
    @kimmertz-ft1bl ปีที่แล้ว +8

    This is definitely a song I’m using for my spidersona spider shock. She’s a shock comedy radio show dj who gets bit by a tangerine tarantula and gains the power of spider nonsense like spiderham

    • @accountrandomnumber182
      @accountrandomnumber182 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I thought you were talking about some kind of headphone brand💀

  • @khaosinkorporated9493
    @khaosinkorporated9493 ปีที่แล้ว +43

    Apparently this song is about an internet argument, but I have a much more interesting interpretation and one that fits the lyrics way better.
    I believe the song is about a main character who is able to break the fourth wall. He keeps doing all these cool things without effort but then everyone in the audience pays attention more to the side characters and antagonist. Those characters are more interesting than who’s supposedly the “main character”.
    He defends himself in various ways from the audience, causing the audience to hate him. (BUT I AIN’T DONE A FUCKING THING TO YOUUUUU!!! So GOD FORBID I’M seen as just an AVERAGE HUMAN BEING!!! I mean, IMAGINE IF ANTAGONISTS LACKED ANY EVIL SCHEME!!!
    I believe the song is about a main character who nobody likes, and he KNOWS that nobody likes him, and he can’t do anything about but sit there and wonder what the writers did wrong…
    So, basically if Rey from the Star Wars sequels could break the fourth wall.

  • @emmazafiroramirezreyes7155
    @emmazafiroramirezreyes7155 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    This is my new favorite song it’s so cool ( I love acting this out )

  • @弓波
    @弓波 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Lmao imagine if this about the Protagonist slowly giving up about becoming the Hero and decides to give into being a villain

  • @SkiffedIt
    @SkiffedIt ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Theater kid: the musical.

  • @mr.furious6814
    @mr.furious6814 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    This sounds like the song for a character who can either be the hero or the villain of the story depending on your perspective

    • @zioptis40
      @zioptis40 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      So pretty much Walter White, since the entire BB fandom is split on what he truly is

  • @the_slush
    @the_slush 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    One of my interpretations of this song is just a person mocking how main characters act.

  • @delahunt2000
    @delahunt2000 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Mr. Bean jumpscare

  • @johannabelle
    @johannabelle ปีที่แล้ว +5

    So glad everyone else feels the Homelander vibe, too.

  • @gruntification4749
    @gruntification4749 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    We are the victim & antagonist of someone in this universe we just don’t know who’s the protagonist

  • @Mapple318
    @Mapple318 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    This somg be giving me anti-hero vibe. (Main character who is also a villain, like Megamind or Gru)

  • @idontexisttt_
    @idontexisttt_ ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Personal timestamp pls ignore 2:25
    4:03

  • @Vanderboom97
    @Vanderboom97 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I imagine the Antagonist singing this mockingly to the Protagonist
    (Edit: like he’s making fun of the actual main characters need to be noticed and adored by everybody)

  • @Richboysinnightgowns
    @Richboysinnightgowns ปีที่แล้ว +6

    "Imagine if the protagonist died in the first act" Magnus Chase had entered the chat.

  • @kradziejusto9495
    @kradziejusto9495 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    there are multiple ways to interpret this song, for me personaly it is about a terrifying mindset which i must admit i was guilty of at one point in my life
    im not talking about literally treating reality like fiction but rather about something which does not fit in a single comment
    this song rightfully demonizes it

  • @will928
    @will928 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    This song is Handsome Jack’s anthem imo

  • @Evanezer
    @Evanezer 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I write comics about the villain. I love this