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?"

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.

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

This feels like a Bo Burnham Song on steroids.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

Why does this song fit my antagonist more than my protagonist

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

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

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.

Mr.Bean is the main character

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

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

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

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. 🤣

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

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

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

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

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.

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".

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

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.

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

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"

3:59 Antagonist 2:24 Protagonist

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

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

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

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

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

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"

THE FUCKING STOCK PHOTOS KILL ME

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

"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.

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

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

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.

I could 100% see this being sung by Deadpool.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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!

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

(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

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

The jumpscare in this got me

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.

I love unreliable narrators

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

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

2:48 That was literally a jumpscare wtf

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.

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

Yup, definitely making a story based off of this

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

We all do what we need to to get through

I love the Doctor Who reference 😄

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

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

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)

this is the personal anthem of every middle schooler

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

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

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

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

I'd like to imagine some little kid or group accidentally tossed a rock at a guy and this is him going off on them

Mr. Bean jumpscare

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

ngl the thumbnail scared the shit out of me

Theater kid: the musical.

So glad everyone else feels the Homelander vibe, too.

2:30 Heh… *well you see, in a story that I made up, the main character actually did die in the first scene..so…*

This song sounds like something dr bright would sing from the scp wiki

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.

I imagine a casual, Overpower build in skyrim decked out in fully enchanted dragonbone armor thats the leader of every guild, singing this song to a group of builds that were carefully crafted with lore, story and passion in mind.

Truman if decided to stay and went insane

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