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{{trope}}
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{{quote|'''Kotomi:''' My name is Ichinose Kotomi. A senior in Class A.
'''Tomoya:''' And her weapon is the violin. It takes only 0.2 seconds before sound waves come out from the moment she takes position. The number of people she's felled is countless.
'''Kotomi:''' ''(after playing some more)'' I've never felled people with the violin.
'''Tomoya:''' Do you see us on the floor right now?!
|''[[Clannad (visual novel)|Clannad]]''}}
What a [[Lethal Chef]] is to food, a Dreadful Musician is to music. This is a character who plays music '''''badly'''''. Glass shatters, [[Animal Reaction Shot|animals scatter]], and [[Conan the Barbarian|women lament]]. Even worse, they [[Giftedly Bad|may not even realize how bad they are]], while everyone around them scrambles to halt the performance.
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Despite being a genius and depicted calmly playing the violin in the opening of ''[[Clannad (visual novel)|Clannad]]'', the terrible truth is revealed when Kotomi finally gets her hands on one: every time she plays, shockwaves emanate from the violin, glass cracks, light bulbs burst, and everyone in the school collapses to the ground in agony. ''She'' thinks her music is pretty. Ironically, though, she used to practice the violin when she was little, with pretty normal results. Probably because she [[Never Got to Say Goodbye]] to {{spoiler|her deceased parents}}. Or it could be similar to Tomoya in the movie, where he undergoes post traumatic stress disorder. This could also explain Kotomi's [[Cloudcuckoolander]] traits.
* In ''[[Key the Metal Idol]]'', Key goes to a concert and is instructed to show what she can do. She then proceeds to sing a ''very'' high note that [[Glass-Shattering Sound|shatters glass]], [[Brown Note|causes the audience to reel in pain]], and short-circuits the robot puppet.
* ''[[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]]''
** Jigglypuff is an inversion. Her lullaby is ''so'' good that any person or Pokémon that hears it falls asleep—which she doesn't appreciate at all and takes revenge on those who do by [[Face Doodling]]. For that, she [[Walking the Earth|wanders the world]] following the heroes, trying to find someone who can hear her entire song. She finds one later, but that's because the Pokémon that could hear her was immune to the effects of any sound-based techniques to begin with. At the end she tried to sing again to the Pokémon, but it fell unconscious from a battle it had just been in, and Jigglypuff thought he slept with the song too and left angry. [[Failure Is the Only Option|Oh well.]]
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* In the 1985 comedy ''[[Water]]'', Billy Connolly plays a communist rebel who's sworn never to speak until his island nation is free, so he communicates by singing. Unfortunately he's not very good at it, so when it's time for him to address the United Nations they're unimpressed, until a cameo appearance by George Harrison and Ringo Starr with their band "The Singing Rebels" earn him a [[The Power of Rock|standing ovation]].
* The singers at the first wedding in ''[[Four Weddings and a Funeral]]''. The credits even list them as "Frightful Folk Duo".
* The Fat Lady, as played by Dawn French, in the film version of ''[[Harry Potter and
== [[Literature]] ==
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* The entire Smythe-Smith family in Julia Quinn's ''Bridgerton'' series. An entire family of girls with no musical talent, and 3/4 of the family are in denial about it enough to insist that all of the eligible maidens play a musicale every year.
* ''[[Discworld]]''
** In ''[[
** Christine in ''[[
** Death is likewise a terrible musician. He has tried to learn the violin and banjo at various points, but is inherently unable to be creative and always fails. Death at one point came close {{spoiler|to ''ending the universe'' in ''[[
** ''[[
** In ''[[
* ''[[Redwall]]''
** Dorothea Duckfontein Dillworthy: "To describe the haremaid's voice as being akin to a frog trapped beneath a hot stone [[Insult to Rocks|would have been a great insult, to both frog and stone]]." She also plays the "harecordion", which apparently sounds like a rusty hinge even before she accidentally soaks it in cider. Her two fanboys, Southpaw and Bobweave, apparently genuinely love her music, while everyone else flees at the mere suggestion that she's about to sing.
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== [[Professional Wrestling]] ==
* [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]] seems to have a thing to use this trope on their poor fans.
** Currently there is Jillian Hall who insists to be a great singer, despite commentators and other wrestler telling otherwise.
** And in the early 90's there was the theme song of The Mountie and The Quebecers which was sung by the wrestlers themselves badly.
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* Elan from ''[[The Order of the Stick]]'' isn't so much a bad musician as an annoying one, who insists on providing lyrics to his bardic music ("[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0041.html Con-cen-trate good times, come on!]"), often at inappropriate times ("[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0004.html Bluff, Bluff, Bluff, Bluff the stupid ogre!]").
* In ''[[Adventurers!]]'', Karn, listening to [[Spoony Bard|Gildward]] perform one of his songs, [https://web.archive.org/web/20130225181055/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0135.html hypothesizes] that its [[Suckiness Is Painful]] enough to damage enemies in combat.
* ''[http://coralwerks.deviantart.com/art/Mersea-01-Warning-Siren-85345719 Mersea]'' #01 got a [[Our Mermaids Are Different|little siren]] whose singing abilities are... unsuitable for the traditional pastime of "luring sailors to their doom". But then, as the later pages show, she's pretty unlucky in general.
* ''[[The Non-Adventures of Wonderella]]''. Wonderita was kidnapped by Hitlerella. "[http://nonadventures.com/2006/10/14/enter-the-dragon-slayer/ ...and then she just ''let me go!'']" Wonderella later had a [http://nonadventures.com/2011/08/13/the-trill-is-gone/ deal] with [[The Little Mermaid|Sea Witch]] - voice for flight powers. She even started with asking "What's in it for ''you''?"... [http://nonadventures.com/2011/12/17/the-treason-for-the-season-part-1/ She can sing. Just need some postprocessing] to sound ''not'' like Michael McDonald.
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy]]'':
** In the episode "Pain in the Ed", Ed is forced to take violin lessons. Even for a beginner he's dreadful, and whenever he plays he produces a bark-peeling, stone-splitting cacophony enjoyed only by [[Cloudcuckoolander]] Johnny Two-By-Four. It's so bad that even the music notes come flying out and smack Eddy in the face. Ed is painfully aware of how bad he is, too.
{{quote|'''Edd:''' Why Ed, I didn't know you played an instrument.
'''Ed:''' In my mom's dreams, I can! }}
* Tucker Foley in ''[[Danny Phantom]]''. He has a terrible voice for singing, and once used it to get some teens out of another musician's trance.
* ''[[The Smurfs (animation)|The Smurfs]]'': Harmony Smurf, as specified in Comic Books. Which becomes crucial in one story where he saves the day.
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* Coop of ''[[Megas XLR]]'' harnessed his horrible singing voice for good by ''literally'' weaponizing it with "The Jammer", a robot-mounted karaoke system that amplifies his songs to the point where they can destroy an entire space station.
* ''[[Futurama]]''
** The Robot Devil challenges Fry and Leela to a fiddle contest with a golden fiddle. Fry asks Leela if she can play the fiddle. She says, no, but she used to play drums, and it's pretty much the same. She then proceeds to play appallingly. After the Robot Devil tells her that she lost, she replies
** It's also ''inverted'' with the Robot Devil: Fry points out that a golden fiddle would be excessively heavy for a fiddle ''and;; sound terrible. The Robot Devil concedes that it's more of a style thing than anything else... then proceeds to perform superbly on that same golden fiddle.
** Also, Zapp Brannigan sings so badly that the glass covering the escape pod button shatters before the hand reaches it. He empties an entire
** Fry on the holophoner. To be fair, most people are if they don't have robot hands.
* [[Minion with an F In Evil|Señor Senior Jr.]] from ''[[Kim Possible]]'' wants nothing more than to be a pop star singer. Too bad his singing voice is more evil than anything even [[Evil Overlord|Shego]] can dish out.
* ''[[Daria]]'':
** Everyone in Mystik Spiral. Though if you exclude the silly lyrics, "Freakin' Friends" is actually rather competent.
** Jane has also proven to be as talented as her brother in the singing department. When she firsts meets Tom Sloane, she proceeds to purposefully torture him with a horrible rendition of "Old McDonald Had a Farm."
* ''[[South Park]]'':
** Cartman's rendition of ''O Holy Night'' is [[Nightmare Fuel|nightmare-inducing]]. His version of ''Poker Face,'' however, is [[Crowning Music of Awesome|a different story.]]
** In the episode "Worldwide Recorder Concert", the kids' recorder playing sounds jumbled and clumsy in act one.
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