10 Movies Where It Didn't Matter That The Hero Lost

8. Tenacious D - Tenacious D In The Pick Of Destiny

In the Mouth of Madness Ending
New Line Cinema

School of Rock isn't the only band Jack Black led to ultimate defeat at the end of a movie. Three years after playing Dewey Finn, the actor played himself in the spoof biopic based around his and Kyle Gass' band, Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny.

The MacGuffin of the story is the titular Pick of Destiny, the guitar pick made from one of the Devil's teeth that helped some of the greats throughout rock history. Tenacious D managed to get their hands on it, but broke it.

This led to a confrontation with the Devil himself, played by Dave Grohl, and the challenge of a rock off. If Tenacious D won, the Devil went back to Hell and had to pay the band's rent, but if the Devil won, he went back to Hell taking KG with him. The song 'Beelzeboss' tells of the epic battle, but in the end it was the Devil that was victorious.

Before he could strike KG with lightning however, Black dove in front of the blast, sending a ricochet back to sever one of the beast's horns. Thus, he was made incomplete and was sent back to Hell alone. So, even though the band lost the rock off, the Devil returned from whence he came, and the band turned his horn into the Bong of Destiny.

 
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