Toki Wartooth – In Depth

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Toki Wartooth

Toki Wartooth’s Gibson Flying V

Toki Wartooth is the other fictional character who plays rhythm guitar and the second fastest guitarist alive, ^[26] though he too can’t read music.^[6] He plays a black Gibson Flying-V guitar. He hails from an abandoned village near Lillehammer, Norway, the son of Anja and the Reverend Aslaug Wartooth. ^[7] Both of his parents dress in a very Old World style (much like the Amish), their faces vaguely recalling the painting American Gothic. During the episode in which Toki’s parents visit, Toki becomes catatonic and uncommunicative for the duration of their visit. He has pictures of them hung in his room. Cardinal Ravenwood mentions seeing "father killing son in the most brutal manner" when told of Toki’s parents. In "Dethkids," a flashback shows Toki as a child, and his mother slaps him.

Toki’s personality is more child-like, innocent, and good-natured compared to the rest of the band, which is why he is a popular icon to children. ^[10] He has several naïve beliefs, such as the idea that adult teeth will grow back because baby teeth do, and occasionally has whimsical fantasies, such as singing a Beatles-esque song under the sea with "underwater friends." He also views sexuality in a more innocent way than his bandmates; in the episode "Girlfriendklok," while the other members of Dethklok want to host the United States Pornography Awards for obviously sexual reasons, Toki only wants to "make out withs thems beautiful goils."

Despite his more innocent personality, he manages to fit in with the rest of the band, although they do tend to treat him like a younger brother. The band also seems to put Toki into a lot more danger than the rest of the band, such as in the episode "Dethwater," they put Toki into a chamber filled with liquid oxygen and the doctor warns the rest of the band that he could die.^[16] Toki has shown similar violent tendencies to those of his bandmates. He asked a priest from the Church of Satan for revenge on Rachael Ray from the Food Network (in the form of her eyes falling out or her breasts falling off) for unspecified reasons, and was indirectly responsible for the death of the lead singer of the Christian rock band Prayer Bolt. ^[25] In the episode "Girlfriendklok," he also beat Nathan with a baseball bat, tasered him, and threatened him by aiming a crossbow at his crotch. Like Skwisgaar, Toki is a nihilist; ^[25] however, they both seem to share some interest or moderate belief in Norse mythology. In the episode "Skwisklok," he mentions his belief in a tooth fairy equivalent: an Ancient Norse God called "Orthar the Tooth-collector."

Toki and Skwisgaar often analyze the philosophical elements of the episodes, such as the male sex drive in "Girlfriendklok," the pros and cons of fatherhood in "Fat Kid at the Detharmonic," and the yard wolves’ eating rituals in "Performanceklok." On more than one occasion, Toki has told Skwisgaar that he hates him; it is possible he means it. Skwisgaar frequently belittles Toki, and insults his guitar-playing on numerous occasions; Toki resents it, but at least in the context of Toki’s confession of hate in "The Metalocalypse Has Begun," it appears that "I hate you" is a metal universe equivalent of "I love you." Toki claims to be a better onstage showman than Skwisgaar, but Skwisgaar writes this off saying that Toki’s showmanship causes his "sloppy playing." He is Norwegian with brown hair and blue eyes and a tendency to slur his words, although his English is somewhat better than Skwisgaar’s. (Ghou lies, Ghou lies.)

Aside from playing guitar, he spends much of his free time building scale models. He has an endorsement deal with "Willard Wonky Candy-Hand Candy" brand candies, who ship him large amounts of free candy as part of his payment. Because of this, he develops a very extreme case of diabetes which causes him to slip in and out of comas (at least for the length of the episode). Toki also appears to have an endorsement deal for a "Metal Bits"-brand cereal (a cereal brand with cereal in the shape of pentagrams, daggers, and such) in the first episode, as there is a cereal box in his shopping cart with his face on it.^[3] In "Bluesklok" and "Girlfriendklok," Toki appears toned and muscular, while the rest of Dethklok ranges from skinny (Skwisgaar, Pickles) to overweight (Nathan, Murderface). Unlike the rest of Dethklok, Toki tans instead of becoming sunburned.

Fairly frequently, Toki makes statements or is placed in situations with homoerotic subtext through his naïveté and misunderstanding of English. An example is mistaking the term "blowjob" to mean "nosebleed" and proudly announcing, "I can gives myself a real cool blowjob!" In another instance, when Skwisgaar refers to Murderface’s party as a sausage festival, Toki believes he means an actual sausage festival and proclaims "I love sausage festival! Like in Vienna." Also, in "Murdering Outside the Box" Toki purchases a vibrating strap-on dildo, thinking it was a codpiece (which Murderface points out, saying "Uh… That’s a dildo… That’s a strap-on dildo").