Ironic Nursery Tune: Difference between revisions

* ''Higanbana no Saku Yoru Ni'' has the protagonist's teacher strangling her while singing Aogeba Tōtoshi, a song sung at graduation ceremonies in Japan.

* ''[[Elfen Lied]]'' has tunes like ''Neji'', "Yureai", and "Uso Sora", among others. Some of which are played during the flashbacks of Lucy's terrible childhood.

{{quote|Who are those little girls in pain just trapped in castle of dark side of moon

Twelve of them shining bright in vain like flowers that blossom just once in years?

* One episode of ''[[Death Note]]'' has Misa taking over the role of Kira and singing a nursery song in the "I'm watching you" vein while ocassionally killing those around her.

* Not quite this, but in ''[[Darker than Black]]'', one Contractor, Mai, was formerly a normal schoolgirl, and after she uses her powers, she has the Renumeration of whistling. Said powers involve [[Kill It with Fire]], and she whistles a dissonant melody as her victims scream in agony.

{{quote|'''Friend''': Kenji-kun, come and play with me.}}

* [[Creepy Twins|Hansel and Gretel]] from ''[[Black Lagoon]]'' can be heard singing one of these while changing after "[[Cold-Blooded Torture|playing]]" with one of Balalaika's men {{spoiler|until he died from it and then with his dead body, which still twitched every time they hammered nails into his head.}}

* In the [[Batman]] relaunch by [[Scott Snyder]], the [[The Omniscient Council of Vagueness|Court of Owls]] have an old nursery rhyme about them:

{{quote|''"The Court of Owls watches,''

''...or they'll send [[Implacable Man|The Talon]] for your head!''" }}

* In ''[[Absolute Beginners]]'', hooligan Ed the Ted sings "The Teddy Bear Picnic" in a menacing tone on his way to a rumble.

* The use of "Au Claire de la Lune" in ''[[The Bad Seed]]''.

* ''[[Silent Night, Deadly Night|Silent Night Deadly Night]]'', being about an [[Ax Crazy]] [[Bad Santa|in a Santa suit]] with a traumatic childhood, naturally features a few ironic ''Christmas carols'' generally heard before, or while, something particularly nasty happens. These are mostly things written specifically for the film rather than real Christmas standards, the most prominently featured being the [[Paranoia Fuel]] that is "Santa's Watching":

{{quote|Santa's watching, Santa's creeping

* ''[[Ashes to Ashes]]'': In the sixth episode of season three, resident [[Big Bad]] Jim Keats whistles the [[British Footy Teams|West Ham]] fight song, "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles". It gets sinister when he {{spoiler|whistles it while slowly approaching a dying Viv James, refusing to call for help or comfort Viv.}}

* [[Parody|Parodied]] by [[Whose Line Is It Anyway?|Colin Mochrie]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCyMXyY-vO0 here.]

* ''[[Criminal Minds]]''

** The UnSub from "Hanley Waters" likes to sing "This Little Light of Mine" as that's what {{spoiler|she and her child were singing in the car when he died}}.

*** Which you can also hear the children at Sharon's old orphanage saying before they go to bed, probably as a [[Shout-Out]] to the song.

** Let's not forget the skipping rhyme about the hanged men.

It was always you that I despised. }}

** ''[[Silent Hill Origins|Origins]]'' uses the "Oranges and Lemons" rhyme, as mentioned above under ''1984''. In this case, however, it's not "a chopper" but "[[The Butcher]]" who has come to chop off your head. 

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