Ironic Nursery Tune: Difference between revisions
quote cleanup
m (clean up) |
(quote cleanup) |
||
Line 82:
* 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,''
''[[Big Brother Is Watching|Watches all the time]].''
''Ruling Gotham from a [[Man Behind the Man|shadowed perch]],''
''Behind granite and lime.''
''[[Paranoia Fuel|They see you at your hearth]].''
''And they see you in your bed.''
''[[Speak of the Devil|Speak not a whispered word about them]]...''
''...or they'll send [[Implacable Man|The Talon]] for your head!''" }}
Line 370:
{{quote|"Isn't it dark? Isn't it cold? Seek out the future before you get old. Once there were children. This is their doom. Now all the people are born from the loom."}}
** That creepy Zagreus rhyme in the [[Big Finish Doctor Who|audio adventures]] (Eighth Doctor). Turns into "extremely scary" when Zagreus possesses the Doctor. "Zagreus sits inside your head/Zagreus lives among the dead/Zagreus sees you in your bed/And eats you when you're sleeping." Sleep tight, Time Lord kids!
** ''The God Complex'' uses a real-life nursery rhyme ("Oranges and Lemons") which goes like this: "Here comes a candle to light you to bed. Here comes a chopper to chop off your head. Chop. Chop. Chop. Chop."
* It doesn't appear in the actual series, but the ads for ''[[Torchwood]]: Children of Earth'' used the melody of "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star".
* The ''[[Angel]]'' season 4 episode "Soulless" has Angelus sitting in a cage creepily singing "Teddy Bear's Picnic" to himself.
Line 614:
*** 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.
{{quote|''[[Silent Hill 4|Here's]] a lullaby to close you eyes. (Goodbye)
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.
| |||