Ironic Nursery Tune: Difference between revisions

* One of Kafuka's [[Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant]] moments in ''[[Sayonara, Zetsubou-sensei]]'' involves her [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z09X5i-xg54 singing] an extraordinarily creepy nursery tune which she seems to think is a cheerful song.

* 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.

* Friend sings one a few times in ''[[Twentieth Century Boys]]'' to taunt the heroes.

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

* One rather memorable scene in ''[[Clock Tower (series)|Clock Tower]] 2'' (''Clock Tower'' in the US) involved ghostly children singing a creepy nursery rhyme about "Scissorman" and the children he has killed.

* The Voodoo-themed game ''[[Shadow Man]]'' contained some genuinely creepy music and sound effects throughout, but none more so than the theme to the area called the "Playrooms". Here, a decidedly on-key music box plays along with the background noises of giggling children, horrified screams, and the bone-chilling sounds of someone being ripped apart with power tools. 

** Probably the most creepy is when you have to slaughter nearly 20 splicers to the tune of "How Much is that Doggy in the Window?" in the Little Sisters' Orphanage... {{spoiler|which is secretly home to a conditioning lab that turns little girls into the ADAM-gathering Little Sisters.}}

*** It really doesn't help that, seeing as Rapture has, socially speaking, long since fallen apart at the seams, and is starting to do so literally as well, the jukeboxes aren't in working order any longer, so not only are you killing splicers to "How Much Is That Doggy In The Window?" you're actually killing them to "How Much Is That Doggy In Th- Doggy In Th- Doggy In Th-".

And burn us in ditches

And we slept after eating our dead.'' }}

* [[Mario & Luigi: Partners In Time]] does this with Christmas music in Hollijolli Village, with a very depressing rendition of typical Christmas music used as Mario and Luigi journey to a village being destroyed by the alien invader shroobs at Christmas.

* ''[[Tales of Vesperia]]'' has a melancholy musicbox play during the [[Player Punch]] fight of {{spoiler|Yuri VS Estelle}}.