Ominous Pipe Organ: Difference between revisions

 

== Film ==

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLryftKtFG0 Davy Jones] in ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]''. The ''only'' reason he's able to do it is that his ship is alive. He plays it with his ''beard.''

** Which is probably inspired by Captain Nemo in ''[[Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea|20,000 Leagues Under The Sea]]''.

 

== Tabletop Games ==

** Module I6 ''[[Ravenloft]]'' has an illusion of Count Strahd von Zarovich playing an organ in his castle.

** Module RA1 ''Feast of Goblyns'' had a dopppleganger playing a pipe organ during an evil religious service.

** Probably also an allusion to "Stalin's Organ" (that's how German soldiers nicknamed the first Soviet multiple rocket launch system).

* ''[[Knights of the Dinner Table]]'' #168 "Bait & Tackle" section (adventure seeds). In "The Pipe Organ", a vampire plays a pipe organ to lure [[PC]]s to their doom.

** The generic [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVWWyENTFdc dungeon theme] in ''[[Super Mario RPG]]'' is also played on a pipe organ, with a few grace piano notes thrown in.

* The final battle against Smithy's first form in ''[[Super Mario RPG]]'' has this along with industrial mechanical sounds.

* Damon Gant's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMQKGMS_Df4 theme] in ''[[Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney]]''. He even has an enormous pipe organ in his office...the ''chief of police's'' office. It also seems to be modeled after the very one on this page image. Phoenix comments on what a massive waste of taxpayer money this is. According to Gumshoe, Gant goes so far as to use the organ for [[Cool and Unusual Punishment]] (he sits misbehaving cops in his office and plays it for several hours; the unfortunate victim is left deaf for a week).

** So he [[Memetic Molester|shows them his huge organ]]?

* The [[Final Boss]] battle in ''[[Silent Hill 3]]''. Although it's not on the official soundtrack.

** It is, however, on the movie soundtrack, titled ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W18UQomodmw Samael]''.

* ''[[Devil May Cry]]'' likes using organs in it's music. Listen to [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gAOIpSFJcs&fmt=18 this], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWMGBhpJS78&fmt=18 this], or [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6ojDhXqR58&fmt=18 this].

** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ikRb7umyu8 Devil Sunday], the opening theme of the game (extended into a sinister fugue [[Mood Motif|when you enter the cathedral]]).

* ''[[Mother 3]]'' had an organ play when you were in a shrine. That alone wasn't mysterious, until you take your time and if you listen through the whole song, they do a [[Dark Reprise]] of the "There's a Railway in Our Village!?" theme, which the real song plays later in the game after {{spoiler|Porky's influence has taken over the town.}}

* Duke Hermeyen of [[The Last Remnant]] has an organ-heavy [[Leitmotif]]. It's scary.

* False King Allant of [[Main/ptitlemhtaoe 8 q|Demon's Souls]] has one during his boss fight.

* [[The Tale of Alltynex|Siter Skain]] is absolutly in love with this trope with their games full of masterful organ tracks. It would be easier to list those that does not contain any organ.

** The first boss theme of [[RefleX]] ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLqZ_iWjBZc Crazy Goddes Virgo]'' , the sixth boss ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQB5QQY2n94 Imperial Gaurd - Scutum -]'' and the [[Climax Boss]] theme ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCP_lsToxRQ Raiwat Virgo -Type R-]'' are good examples.

* [[Resonance of Fate]] plays [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aT4i6FLPQ-o organ music accompanied by an evil choir] while you [[Rage Against the Heavens|storm the Basilica]].

* And then there is ''[[Death Smiles]]'' with it's regular [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrCiQus4oMk boss theme] and the final boss theme [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1v4RfZCCNQ Hell's Emperor].

* In ''[[King's Quest V Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder]]'', Mordack's castle has a grotesque pipe organ that can play itself.

* Heard (and illustrated) in the intro of ''[[Count Duckula]]''.

* One of these is played by [[Misunderstood Loner with a Heart of Gold|Mr. Ten]] in ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]''.

* Parodied in ''[[Animaniacs]]'' during their take on "The Three Billy Goats Gruff". Every time someone mentioned the [gasp] ''troll'', there would be a sudden cut to Wakko playing ominous music on the organ. (Except when Wakko said it; then Dot covered for him.)

{{quote|'''Dot:''' Well, somebody had to do it.}}