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* 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 shatters glass, 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
** Also done in the runaway ship episode of season 10 with Pikachu on cello, Buizel on saxophone, Turtwig on drums and Sudowoodo on piano. Needless to say Staravia wasn't a big fan of [http://www.filb.de/anime/dp/039 Pikachu's band]. (On the link you will have to click the link at the bottom 3 times to see Pikachu's band and Staravia's reaction to them.)
* Tokino in the original ''[[Kujibiki Unbalance]]'' OVA. She "wins" a karaoke competition by breaking the karaoke meter, as plants wither, birds fall dead out of the sky, nearby aircraft crash in flames, and the other contestants unsuccessfully attempt to keep from vomiting. It should be noted that her singing voice is not provided by [[Akemi Kanda|her normal voice actress]], but by [[Joji Nakata|a tone-dead fifty-year old man]].
* Kudo Shinichi/Edogawa Conan, from ''[[Detective Conan]]''. Conan's singing is simply ''horrendous''... which is all the more funny given that his seiyuu is a ''very famous'' [[Idol Singer]] (which leads to a very interesting duet when she gets a cameo in a two-parter episode). And it's not only
* Yomi from ''[[Azumanga Daioh]]'' is good at many things, but singing definitely isn't one of them. Contrast Sakaki, who doesn't say much, but sings beautifully. (Ironically, Yomi's [[Rie Tanaka|Japanese voice actress]] is well-respected for her singing abilities.)
* Rie Tanaka seems to get cast that way a LOT, for whatever reason. See also Eriko in ''[[KimiKiss]]'' and Xanthippe in ''[[Sora O Kakeru Shoujo]]''. Industry in-joke?
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* In ''[[Doraemon]]'', Giant fancies himself a singer, but his voice is so awful it can be weaponized, and even in a world without sound reading his lyrics induce nausea. Its only rivaled by Shizuka's violin. In a memorable scene from a [[Non-Serial Movie]], the team is being drawn in by siren/mermaid song which has also attracted a sea beast. The praise of the music annoys Giant who begins to sing. Cue fleeing mermaids and a knocked out monster.
* Kanata is not a particularly good bugler when ''[[Sora no Woto]]'' begins. Not surprisingly, since learning how to play was her main reason to join the army in the first place.
* Shinji from ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' plays the cello, but considers himself a
* Aoi from ''[[Senko no Night Raid]]'' is horrible at playing the violin, but he doesn't let that bother him.
* In one episode of ''[[Nichijou]]'', eight-year old Professor and her robot Nano are playing on trumpets. They sound awful... until you realize that the Professor is blowing into her horn but not actually making any noise. It's ''Nano'' who sounds awful.
* In ''[[Yandere Kanojo]]'', the piano-playing ghost Kuroko can't move on to the next life until someone recognizes the piece of music she's playing. Just one
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== Comic Books ==
* [[Meaningful Name|Cacofonix]] the bard from ''[[Asterix]]'' is an absolutely horrid musician. The entire village conspires to keep him from singing (primarily the blacksmith, Fulliautomatix, who tends to smack him with a sledgehammer), up to the point of [[Bound and Gagged|tying him up and gagging him]] whenever they have a celebration. Which they do at the end of every
** The "Normans" (Vikings) come to Gaul to learn the meaning of fear, a concept they cannot understand. Not even a severe beating from the super-strong Gauls teaches them to
** In ''The Mansions of the Gods'', {{spoiler|Asterix arranges for him to get an apartment in a [[Xanatos Gambit]] to drive the Romans out. The Roman civilians leave after Cacofonix bursts into song, but the legionaries move in. So it's back to good old brute force to finish the job.}}
** In ''Asterix Chez Rahazade'', a Fakir from India comes to request his assistance because his country has not had rain in all of its rainy season and only the bard's horrible singing voice can drive the sky to torrential downpour. {{spoiler|It works.}}
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** If Fulliautomatix doesn't shut him up, the gods themselves will with a [[Bolt of Divine Retribution]].
* Bianca Castafiore in the ''[[Tintin]]'' books seems to fulfill this role to judge from other characters' reactions (and she's a professional opera singer). Either that, or the main characters of the comic simply don't like opera (esp. the captain). Of course, there is a world of difference between an opera singer at full blast in a theater and a taxi... This is a blatant case of authorial preference. Hergé hated opera and always found it rather ridiculous. The only people shown to appreciate Bianca's singing are Professor Calculus (who is "slightly hard-or-hearing") and Colonel Sponsz (who wants to get into her knickers). The diva was inspired by his Aunt Mimi, a similarly shrill singer.
* [[Gaston Lagaffe]] is an interesting example, as he's not bad at playing music ''per se''
* Peewit, in Peyo's ''Johan and Peewit''. His natural ability for inflicting musical pain [[It Got Worse|only gets worse]] when he accidentally obtains a magical six-holed flute of smurf origin that can [[Brown Note|force people to dance uncontrollably until they drop from exhaustion.]] He's so bad that at the beginning of the same album, when a traveling salesman comes to the castle and begins unloading musical instruments, the horrified king banishes him with threats of hanging.
* ''[[The Smurfs]]'': Harmony Smurf can make any instrument whatsoever sound painfully out of tune, even a triangle. For the sake of experiment, the other Smurfs once allowed him to direct their orchestra: he made every last one of them play wrong. They even once gave him a music box to hold. [[Serial Escalation|He made it play wrong.]] Farmer Smurf deliberately uses Harmony's bad music playing to bring on the rain in "The Finance Smurf".
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* Some versions of [[Sherlock Holmes]] make him a painfully bad violinist. In the original stories he's quite skilled. Although he tends to play ''endlessly'' when thinking or bored, to Watson's annoyance. The literary canon explains that Holmes is quite brilliantly talented, ''provided'' he can be motivated to attempt an actual tune. Most of the time he just listlessly scrapes away with the bow while his mind is elsewhere, and barely seems to realise he's doing it.
* The invaders in ''[[Mars Attacks!]]'' are defeated when it is revealed that a recording of Slim Whitman yodeling causes their heads to explode.
* A Japanese interactive film ''Super Voice World'' features the "player" character meeting various seiyuu on his way to becoming one himself. Too bad his singing evokes visions of two nerds (played by Yamaguchi Kappei and Matsumoto Yasunori) taking off each other's glasses and falling on the floor in each other's embrace (no, it doesn't really make sense in context, either), shatters glass, kills goldfish, makes flowers wither, sends producers to the hospital and causes bad emotional trauma to the three poor girls who asked him to sing in the first
* Brilliantly subverted in ''[[High Fidelity]]'' where Jack Black's character's band, Sonic Death Monkey, has been built up for the entire third act. They finally appear playing smooth R&B Standards, and sound great.
* Mark and the members of his garage band in ''[[Welcome to The Dollhouse]]''. Case in point is the infamous "Happy Anniversary" song...
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:: Although, to be fair to Riley, he was affected by an alien disease at the time.
* Nick Andolpolis, of ''[[Freaks and Geeks]]''. His audition in the "I'm with the Band" episode is at once one of the funniest and most painful [[Cringe Comedy]] moments on a show that's full of them.
* ''[[Kamen Rider Double]]'' had a one-off character named Jimmy Nakata, a street musician who invented a rock/rap fusion he calls called "spilk"
* Despite ''[[Reba]]'' starring a well-known excellent singer, two of her character kids are actually this when singing.
* When Pierce in ''[[Community]]'' joins a band,everyone expects him to be this. However, he proves to be a very good keyboard player although lead singer Vaughan has less than positive lyrics about Britta
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== Tabletop Games ==
* The fan-made Cacophonic Bard [[Prestige Class]] is for [[Tabletop Games]] fans who want to try out this type of character in a ''[[Dungeons and Dragons|Dungeons & Dragons]]'' game. It may be intentional, but the class has one tremendous
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** Aleph from ''[[Shin Megami Tensei II]]'' is also a very bad singer, and will drive demons into a incoherent rage when he does so, many believing he's trying to kill them.
** In the original ''[[Persona (video game)|Persona]]'', "Sing" is a negotiation option the MC and Elly have. As in its predecessors, some demons are less than entertained by your musical ability. (In Elly's case, though, they tend to bitch about her choice of genre).
* In arcade classic ''[[Commander Keen]]'', one of the enemy-types you encounter in the final world of ''Invasion of the Vorticons'' is a little green guy who, according to the manual, "Has the worst singing-voice in the galaxy, but believes that he has the best. Thus, he sings constantly." Their soundwave projectiles passes through solid barriers and kills you on
* This is the entire point of Team Chaotix's Team Blast attack in ''[[Sonic Heroes]]''. They immediately give an impromptu rock concert, but their singing and instrument playing is so bad, it makes all nearby enemies explode into rings. Since collecting rings builds up your Team Blast meter, sometimes unleashing the Team Blast gives you enough rings to be able to immediately unleash it again.
* The piano lady from ''[[Light Crusader]]''.
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** The "Never Gonna Give You Up"-playing boombox has also become part of a ''[[Half-Life (series)|Half-Life]]'' mod, as shown in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHoloa4KLwM this video].
* A [[Game Mod]] for ''[[Unreal]]'' featured the Hanson Grenade, which stuck to the target and blasted [[Ear Worm|"MMMBop"]] by [[Boy Band|Hanson]] continuously. It gave away your position, drained your health, and in the words of Unreal game designer Cliff Bleszinski "will drive your ass insane".
* In ''[[Vay]]'', the heroes need to get a valuable gem from a legendary monster, who turns out to be willing to give it up in exchange for a song. None of the heroes turn out to be particularly good singers, so they go back to town and hire the traveling bard Lynx. Unfortunately for them, Lynx turns out to be not only a
* Harpy of the ''[[Puyo Puyo]]'' series is a notoriously horrid singer. So much that in one of the short ''Puyo Puyo'' anime clips, in a [[Crowning Moment of Funny]], she gives lessons to Seriri (who normally sings so beautifully she captivates people) [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_4AKl4SiRY and make her sing as awfully as her].
* One of the Dark Brotherhood's targets in ''[[The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim]]'' is an Orc who has the dubious honor of being considered the worst Bard in Tamriel. So many people want him dead that Astrid actually has to draw a lottery to determine whose contract to honor.
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== Web Animation ==
* Coach Z from ''[[Homestar Runner]]'' is most often portrayed as a
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