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Ironic Nursery Tune

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Ironic Nursery Tune	comment	For added atmosphere, play the music from this track while reading on. A Nursery Rhyme used to convey an underlying sadness and/or creepiness, sometimes made into a theme tune that sounds like a music box that's slightly off key. It's mainly used to indicate someone with a Squicky past, a child molester or other psychosis. Ironically, due to this trope, it's very uncommon for anyone to use nursery music to indicate anything positive anymore, making it a common theme of Grimmification. Occasionally the writers want to be more poetic with it, and a character will sing the lyrics to some bedtime song. This is sometimes handwaved as being learned from a nanny or grandmother, since they tend to be rhymes no one has used in the last century. "Ring-a-Ring-of-Roses" (or "Ring Around the Rosey", as it's known in some parts of the world) is especially prone to this, due to the popular belief that a cute little children's song was written about the Black Death. While some disagree with this interpretation, the lyrics of the earliest documented and best-known form do lend themselves undeniably to rather dark interpretations; enough that the Victorians started Bowdlerizing it with more lighthearted variants. Old-time songs like "Singin' in the Rain" (seen in A Clockwork Orange) and the works of Frank Sinatra are quickly becoming part of this trope. If you enter an ancient, dilapidated mansion and a song whose original listeners are either senile or dead from old age plays over and over and over, you're in trouble. Also, the famous "Hush Little Baby" or "Mockingbird" lullaby seems to be the top icon of this trope, it's simple enough for parents (or some creepy unseen killer) to ad-lib further verses as required. Overlaps with the Ominous Music Box Tune. Often goes with the Creepy Child, the Psychopathic Manchild and Ambiguous Innocence. See also Soundtrack Dissonance. The opposite, where the music box is used positively, is Nostalgic Music Box. Compare and contrast Fractured Fairy Tale. Compare Creepy Circus Music and Sinister Whistling. Compare and contrast Creepy Children Singing, where creepy songs and nursery rhymes are played in the background to add tension and fear to a scene. Zig-zagged by many a Playground Song, which genuinely come from children's oral tradition but often just are that dark. When used in advertising, see Moody Trailer Cover Song. May overlap with Self-Soothing Song.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_101bfcd7	comment	After losing her mind in Sengoku Basara 3 and being consumed by darkness, Oichi sings an extremely creepy one that predicts Nobunaga's resurrection:
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_1099a6ac	comment	Not actually a nursery rhyme, but Marla Singer in Fight Club as she leaves the Paper Street house. "Gotta get off... gotta get off... gotta get off this merry-go-round..." Marla Singer is quoting from "(Theme from) Valley of the Dolls" — not strictly an ironic nursery rhyme, but considering what happens to the women of the film, it's appropriate.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_114401d2	comment	Pretty Little Liars uses this trope in quite a few episodes. Mona, who is lampshaded by the characters as having a Beautiful Singing Voice in-universe, gets to do this a few times: In episode 3x03, she is shown singing â€œIn the Eye Abides the Heartâ€� while lying awake in her hospital bed at Radley Sanitarium. Episode 3x13, a Halloween special, opens with her singing â€œTeddy Bearâ€™s Picnicâ€� while painting a mannequin head. In episode 6x01, she sings â€œHush, Little Babyâ€� to herself while imprisoned in â€œthe holeâ€� at the Dollhouse. As it was the season premiere, this was also used in promos for the episode to sufficiently creepy effect, juxtaposing the horrors the Liars are forced to go through with Monaâ€™s soft voice. The above song also appears in two more episodes, both in season 7: In episode 7x01, Hanna dreams about Spencer singing her to sleep with it while she is imprisoned by A.D. Itâ€™s a tender moment in an otherwise dark episode, until the series finale reveals that it wasnâ€™t a dream and â€œSpencerâ€� was really Alex Drake (A.D.), Spencerâ€™s evil twin, probing her for information on Charlotteâ€™s death. In episode 7x10, Mary Drake sings it to Spencer who has just been shot, and uses the moment to reveal to her that she is actually Spencerâ€™s biological mother.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_11795604	comment	One rather memorable scene in Clock Tower 2 involves ghostly children singing a creepy nursery rhyme about "Scissorman" and the children he has killed.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_11b7db91	comment	Adventure Time: In "Marceline's Closet", Finn and Jake play a hide-and-seek style game called "Cloud Hunt", which starts with Finn reciting a creepy poem that seems to be about nuclear fallout. During the "Elementals" arc, Princess Bubblegum gets turned into a giant Candy elemental who converts others into overly cheerful candy people by singing "Let Me Call You Sweetheart".
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_124b0b53	comment	In The Initiation, the escaped lunatics surround Nurse Higgins' car slowly singing ""Ring Around the Rosey".
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_1253f289	comment	Dream Theater have a song called Lie which plays with this trope.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_1298743d	comment	Sapphire and Steel: The first serial has the malevolent Time using a nursery rhyme from a child's storybook to enter this universe. As does the fourth serial. In the third serial, the leitmotif for the changeling is a creepified version of the lullaby that his mother sang him when he was a baby. Though not technically a nursery rhyme, the second serial uses the usually upbeat "Pack up your Troubles in your Old Kit Bag" to much the same effect, with a vengeful soldier's ghost whistling it constantly. Conversely, however, both the first and second serials use rhymes in a deliberately upbeat way. In the first, "What shall we do with the Drunken Sailor?" is used to keep in contact with a boy who's been sent back in time, and in the second, the aforementioned "Pack up your Troubles..." is sung cheerfully to lure the ghost out.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_12b2c62	comment	Taken to a fairly literal extent in Lullaby, which is about a nursery rhyme (a "culling song") that kills those who hear it.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_13665790	comment	The climax of Thud! features a variant on this. Sam Vimes is lost in a cave, addled with pain, despair, and rage, and fighting off a pack of dwarfs not to mention possession by the Summoning Dark, a diabolical "entity of pure vengeance" brought about by a dwarf curse, when out of pure force of habit he starts to shout the words to his infant son's favorite book, "Where's My Cow?" (since six o'clock is time to read Young Sam his bedtime story and come hell or high water he will read "Where's My Cow?" to Young Sam at six o'clock). Understandably, the dwarfs aren't sure at first how to react to the threat of a man with an axe and a sword shouting things like "It goes 'baa!' It is a sheep! That! Is!! Not!!! My!!!! COW!!!!!"
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_13888824	comment	Nevermoor: It's revealed that Wundersmiths can call Wunder to them by singing to it, and you can sing any song you like. The Big Bad prefers a nursery rhyme that Morrigan remembers learning in pre-school, but the lyrics are... interesting.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_14205e40	comment	Penny Dreadful utilizes the old folk song "The Unquiet Grave" as a frequent reference. It first appears in "SÃ©ance", sung by the possessed Vanessa at the seance. It comes back in "Closer than Sisters", sung by young Vanessa and later older Vanessa, both times while walking the hedge maze. Finally, in "Fresh Hell", it's our introduction to Evelyn Poole, who is singing it while bathing in a bathtub of blood.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_15cd395	comment	The Unforgiving Flowers Blossom in the Dead of Night has the protagonist's teacher strangling her while singing Aogeba TÅ�toshi, a song sung at graduation ceremonies in Japan.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_160c1407	comment	Metallica's "Enter Sandman" makes verbatim use of a common rhyme-ish prayer in the middle: It does so in a distinctly creepy way. Listen to the song. Directly after comes another rhymish segment, this one original and more overtly sinister: The prayer can take on a distinctly creepy tone all by itself if you think about it the wrong way — in Hogfather, Susan notes that it was taught to Twyla and Gawain by their previous governess and the impression she got was that it carried the rider that the second half was the preferred result. At the time it was played for laughs, but now think about a child saying it with the same intent. "Enter Sandman" was inspired by and actually samples Robert Schumann's "Der Sandmann" (itself from the German short story of the same name) which is just as creepy.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_1913b4de	comment	"I Dreamed a Dance" from Next to Normal seems like a tune Diana would sing to her son (augmented by the music box tune in the background from the first item her husband ever gave her when she was pregnant). Yet, of course, said son is deceased, and she is singing of longing to be with him so much that she dreams of him every night. Oh, and this song does come right before he persuades her to attempt suicide to go with him to a "world where we can be free".
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_193f6428	comment	Starsiege describes a conflict between humanity and Killer Robots that are Humongous Mecha. The manual and intro cutscene are filled with charming children's songs:
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_1a5d84af	comment	Friend sings one a few times in 20th Century Boys to taunt the heroes.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_1a7918e3	comment	An odd example in Terranigma in the bowels of Sylvain Castle, just before the fight with Bloody Mary. Before you face the boss herself, you have to play two games with her "daughters" (a set of Creepy Dolls). The first of these is a few rounds of the Japanese children's game "Kagome Kagome" (see the Inuyasha example under Anime & Manga above) where once the dolls spinning around you stop moving, you have to hit the one that stopped behind you. The lyrics of the song were apparently directly translated into English and subsequently make almost no sense, in a bizarre aversion of Pragmatic Adaptation. What makes it even stranger is that it's a uniquely Japanese childrens' game appearing in a decidedly western setting (Sylvain Castle is in France).
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_1ad1e0d2	comment	Imperial Radch: The protagonist of Ancillary Justice, the Artificial Intelligence of a spaceship that operates planetside through Meat Puppet soldiers called ancillaries, hears some children playing a game and singing about them.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_1b4bc120	comment	The opening theme to Poltergeist (1982).
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_1be75747	comment	The opening credits of Jack the Reaper are accompanied by creepy children's voices singing "Ring Around the Rosey". Later, when Jessie is in the bus alone and sees Railroad Jack on horseback, the same voices recite a nursery rhyme about Jack.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_1beda93b	comment	Sluggy Freelance has this gruesome nursery rhyme derivative for the return of the evil kittens.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_1c4ca44a	comment	In Castle Crashers, the knights interrupt a forced marriage ceremony and fight the groom and his men to a twisted, dark rendition of "Here comes the Bride".
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_1cd53230	comment	The toy piano music playing over the opening and closing credits of the Puppet Master movies falls into this trope.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_1e8f2466	comment	Many chapters of Count Cain are inspired by Mother Goose rhymes, even some of those that were an integral part of the larger arc. Based on Agatha Christie's technique, these chapters usually start with the nursery rhyme, which gradually turns out to frame a ghastly crime.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_1f72b18d	comment	And they just had to use it in Tom and Jerry. To be exact, The Two Mouseketeers.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_2075d8af	comment	The Hard Times: Parodied in the article "Movie Trailer Editor Struggling to Create Menacing Rendition of 'Mary Had a Little Lamb'", in which attempts at giving "Mary Had a Little Lamb" the Moody Trailer Cover Song go south.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_20948a39	comment	Near the end of Tales of Monkey Island Chapter 4: The Trial and Execution of Guybrush Threepwood, the Marquis De Singe sings a twisted version of the song while getting the Wind Control Device ready for pulverizing Elaine into a fine powder:
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_2139ea95	comment	The "Uwasa" (lit. "Rumour") song from the Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story anime. Its lyrics and melody are composed to invoke children's counting folk songs that would be very at home in Japanese Horror. It also foreshadows the appearance of a new enemy called Rumours. Bonus points for being sung by a baby variant of Kyubey.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_21938c93	comment	Avengers: Age of Ultron: "I've Got No Strings" becomes much less whimsical and more terrifying when sung by Ultron.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_21a6127c	comment	In The Haunting (1963), Eleanor hums a wordless tune twice in the film, both times while dancing with Hugh Crain's statue. The effect is creepy.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_21a612df	comment	In The Haunting (1999), Eleanor hums a wordless tune: first while driving to Hill House in her car, then in the garden while she looks at the statues of the woman and children. This same tune is played later on as an Ominous Music Box Tune on a hand-cranked phonograph which she finds in the nursery... which only adds to the implication that Hill House is her home.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_21b73568	comment	In Holidays with Holmes, Holmes comes up with his own twist on the traditional Guy Fawkes rhyme after a convicted murderer tries to kill him and Watson on that night.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_22119589	comment	In a second season episode of Alias, Olivia D'Abo is forced to sing "Pop Goes the Weasel". As she gets to the "pop", she's blown to smithereens by the explosive vest she's wearing.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_2212773a	comment	Angel: "Soulless" has Angelus sitting in a cage creepily singing "Teddy Bear's Picnic" to himself. "Lullaby" prominently features Holtz singing "All Through the Night" creepily to himself. This is because he sang it to his daughter, who Angelus and Darla turned into a vampire.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_2268de37	comment	Being a fairytale-based show, Grimm often has quotes from fairy tales at the beginning of each episode. The episode "Mr. Sandman" uses... well, the song "Mr. Sandman" by the Chordettes as the background music.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_229b1567	comment	Shadow Man contains 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.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_22d74b2e	comment	Redwall: In Loamhedge, Flinky the stoat sings his obnoxious leader to sleep with what starts out as a regular lullaby, but as the boss drifts off Flinky changes the lyrics into instructions to a comrade to stab the guy.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_22e860f4	comment	The Psych episode "Tuesday the 17th" uses the theme song of the fictional Camp Tikihama as the camera goes under the lake to reveal Shawn's Rick Astley pinata.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_2556d3a0	comment	In Street Scene, two nurses are reading a tabloid feature about the double murder of Mrs. Maurrant and Sankey, and sing about it to calm a crying baby. The second verse of this lullaby contains additional soothing thoughts about adultery and Domestic Abuse:
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons: In one of the very first segments on The Tracey Ullman Show, the kids are each being put to bed with something said that keeps them awake and freaked out — Marge sings "Rock-a-bye Baby" to Maggie, who visualizes herself falling out of a tall tree on a windy day. In "Lisa's First Word", as a toddler, Bart imagines the creepy Monster Clown bed Homer made him saying "If you should die before you wake...", complete with an Evil Laugh. In "Bart of Darkness", Bart and Lisa believe Ned Flanders has killed Maude, we see him heading up to the attic, where Lisa's hiding, carrying an axe and singing "Mary had a little lamb". Even though the audience knows it must be a Mistaken for Murderer plot (even if they've seen it before, and know exactly what's going on), it's still very creepy. In another episode, Bart calmly strolls through an Abandoned Playground with an Ironic Nursery Tune playing in the background. "Thursdays with Abie" has Nelson threatening Bart to take care of the school's stuffed lamb doll. "Nelson loved a little lamb that kept him nice and sane." Parodied and lampshaded in "Halloween of Horror":
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_2660193	comment	The Kacey Musgraves song ''Merry Go Round" corrupts not one, but two nursery rhymes at once:
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_26c4b445	comment	Rosemary's Baby has "Rosemary's Lullaby" as the opening and closing theme, sung by star Mia Farrow as la-las, and it's plenty creepy. However, the song does have lyrics and is also known as "Sleep Safe and Warm". Out of context, it seems to be an innocent promise of protection from a mother to her infant. But if you've seen the film, Fridge Horror makes you wonder if maybe it's the father doing the singing (or, considering the ending, it's a duet).
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_284882f8	comment	Both versions of "Ashley's Theme" from WarioWare use a music box tune combined with sweet singing from Ashley as an ironic counterpoint to the actual attitude of the character, who is a sinister, near-emotionless Cute Witch who has tried to turn another character into potion ingredients, and who practices and researches dark magic to do things like turn plants into giant monsters. Averted in Super Smash Bros. Brawl, in which it is arranged as a big band tune, although Japanese Ashley's singing is still pretty creepy. Ironically, the original Japanese lyrics boil down to "Ashley is awesome. Isn't Ashley awesome? She's a little bored and wants friends, though. But she's awesome."
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_28a77926	comment	The Librarians (2014): Done twice in the episode "And the Heart of Darkness"; first the spooky phonograph that plays "What Are Little Girls Made Of?", and then Katie singing "She'll Be Coming Round the Mountain" while stalking Cassandra.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_2a842e3a	comment	Doctor Who Expanded Universe: A mid-Gallifreyan nursery rhyme from the Doctor Who New Adventures novel Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible: In the Eighth Doctor Adventures novel Unnatural History, a Faction Paradox member taunts the Doctor with this parody of a Gallifreyan nursery rhyme: One of the books commissioned by The BBC to tie in with the new series, an Eleventh Doctor story titled "Dead of Winter", has a small rhyme that is recalled by Dr. Smith that goes:
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_2ae406c1	comment	In Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, according to the Dream Twister's associated quote, the final transmission from Assassin's Redoubt is "Mary Had a Little Lamb". Considering that Assassin's Redoubt belongs to the Spartan Federation (the Proud Warrior Faction Guys) and the Dream Twister boosts psychic attack power, this is likely the product of some very heavy-duty Mind Rape.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_2b9aa6f0	comment	The Mechanisms: Two in the Science Fiction Fairy Tale Free-for-All Rock Opera Once Upon a Time in Space. "King Cole" is a Villain Song about the album's version of King Cole as a ruthless Galactic Conqueror, and "Rose Red" starts with a traditional performance of the round, before switching to a much harder version of the same tune about Rose's life in Cole's army. The song "Alice", sets the Red Queen's segment about decapitating people to turn them into robot soldiers to the tune of "The Mending Song" from Bagpuss.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_2bbcacd9	comment	It was also used in the 1949 Pepe Le Pew cartoon "For Scentimental Reasons" (Pepe was singing part of it while the cat was trying to wash the paint — and possibly his stench — off her). Does not help that the song can also be warped into something sexual.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_2d644371	comment	Tales Series: Tales of Vesperia has a melancholy musicbox play during the Player Punch fight of Yuri VS Estelle. Tales of Hearts opens with this ditty. Of course, at the end of the game, when the day is saved, the heroes compose a new, more hopeful version of the fairy tale.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_2e207b71	comment	A skit in Late Night with Conan O'Brien involves Conan pulling out a guitar and playing a soothing nursery tune, while scenes of horrific natural disasters show on the screen and Conan sings about horrible things. (After the Michael Jackson trial: "Watch out, kiddies, Jacko's free!")
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_2e3e7ac2	comment	Justice League: In "Only a Dream", John Dee torments the heroes by trapping them in nightmares. Batman, being one of those who's managed to not fall asleep, attempts to block Dee's influence out of his brain by constantly humming "Frere Jacques"/"Brother John", appropriately enough. ("Are you sleeping? Are you sleeping?") What makes it creepy is the end of the episode, when a wide-eyed Dee is humming the same song, having been trapped in a catatonic state by a power backfire. In "Wild Cards", the Joker sings his variation of "London Bridge is Falling Down" while kicking the crap out of Batman:
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_2f1b5710	comment	Jekyll: "Boys and Girls, Come Out to Play" is used as a leitmotif for Hyde. Not an actual nursery rhyme, but kids love "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" by the Tokens. Hyde sings it while killing lions with his bare hands and flinging the corpses at the cops.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_2f2a80e	comment	"Enter Sandman" was inspired by and actually samples Robert Schumann's "Der Sandmann" (itself from the German short story of the same name) which is just as creepy.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_2f7e7b92	comment	Characteristic for Melanie Martinez' brand of creepiness: "Milk and Cookies" (from the Cry Baby album) has allusions to "1, 2, Buckle My Shoe" and "Ring Around the Rosie". Did we mention that this a Murder Ballad sung by the title character towards her kidnapper? The chorus lampshades this with the lyrics "'Sing you a lullaby where you die at the end". The chorus of "Tag, you're it" describes the kidnapper pursuing Cry Baby and reffering to the chase as the titular game. The third verse puts a twist on Eenie meenie.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_2f9517bf	comment	The Road's Song from D.Gray-Man — both Japanese and English are deliciously creepy.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_30cf38e0	comment	Annie's mother-turned-Deadite in Evil Dead 2 sings "The Mockingbird Song" to try and lull her daughter into a trap. Later, Annie distracts her possessed mother long enough for Ash to get the edge over her by singing the same song.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_32540a16	comment	Burying the Shadow brings us this gem being sung by little girls while the protagonist is possibly going crazy: "The pale lady rises, the pale lady falls. Up again, up again, smelling out souls."
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_3316b796	comment	Loving: "Itsy Bitsy Spider" is often played over scenes of the "Loving Murders", or of the killer preparing to strike. It turns out to be something that the killer and her brother would often sing to each other when they were children.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_331e009	comment	Borderlands 2 introduces the player to Tiny Tina (the world's most dangerous 12-year-old) as she's singing a setting-appropriate version of "Pop Goes the Weasel":
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_344143ba	comment	Tower of Terror uses "It's raining, it's pouring" while Buzzy and his niece walk down a deserted hallway.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_346db4d5	comment	In one of the last levels of The Suffering, you witness three mysterious Puritan girls singing "Ring Around the Rosie" while dancing around the ancient site of a witch-burning. Then they giggle insanely and transform into Infernas.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_3504b58e	comment	In Mortal Kombat 11, the Joker sings his own twisted version of "Pop Goes the Weasel" during his appropriately named "Pop Goes the Mortal" Fatality. It has two possible variations:
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_3560b7b8	comment	In Sailor Moon SuperS: The Movie, the villains use a cheerful song called Three O'Clock Fairy to hypnotize children.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_36570e3	comment	In the climactic battle of The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Electro zaps between electrical coils and makes them emit one tone at a time, playing a Tesla-coil rendition of "Itsy-Bitsy Spider" as he punches Spidey in between his jumps, to Spidey's dismay.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_3802ca35	comment	A creepy one is sung by the Aristocrat Club in Rule of Rose at the conclusion of the Sir Peter-chapter:
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_381bb5a8	comment	One episode of The Alvin Show has Alvin, Simon and Theodore singing it in French. Then this occurs:
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_38cb3571	comment	This is likely inspired by the creepy folktale of "The Juniper Tree", in which the murder victim sings this ditty from beyond the grave:
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_39f68c74	comment	Forget Me Not revolves around a children's game involving one.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_3a09a0ee	comment	The Innocents: Flora has a music box which plays the tune O Willow Waly frequently throughout the movie, but it's only at the very beginning that the lyrics are heard (sung by Flora):
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_3a7f5b49	comment	In the sequel, Alice: Madness Returns, one of the orphans who Dr. Bumby cares for can be found standing with her face to a wall as she sings an excerpt from a nursery rhyme called "The Sandman". What makes it creepy is that later on in the game, you discover that Bumby has been brainwashing the orphans and turning them into prostitutes. How that relates to the rhyme? He's also the Big Bad, and he's responsible for the Infernal Train that's destroying Wonderland.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_3ab29433	comment	M: The film starts with children skipping while singing "Just you wait a little while/ Soon the man in black will come/ And with his little chopper/ He will chop you up! — You're out!" The rhyme itself was a sarcastic subversion of a popular operetta tune by Walther Kollo, with a bunch of violets ("Veilchen") turned into 1920s Serial Killer Fritz Haarmann's (possibly an inspiration behind the film) weapon of choice, an axe ("Beilchen"). For that matter, Lorre's whistling of "Hall of the Mountain King" counts. Not exactly a nursery song, but still.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_3c53ffa8	comment	The live version of the instrumental Rush (Band) song "La Villa Strangiato" from the album "Exit... Stage Left" featured Geddy Lee singing the lyrics to a Yiddish children's song during a very odd-sounding guitar solo.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_3c912cc2	comment	Tales of Vesperia has a melancholy musicbox play during the Player Punch fight of Yuri VS Estelle.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_3defe34c	comment	Discussed in Frozen II, as Elsa and Honeymaren recall the lyrics to "All Is Found", a Northuldran lullaby that Queen Iduna once sang to Elsa and Anna:
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_3ebfb0e1	comment	CarnEvil is especially fond of this. In the Rickety Town level, light-hearted and cheesy Christmas music is played while you're gunning down giant wasps and zombie elves wielding candy canes. Perhaps one of the most disturbing bosses is the giant, mutant baby (and in the unlocked levels, a giant stitched-up teddy bear) in the Freak Show level. While trying to squash and mangle you, a music box version of Pop Goes the Weasel is visibly heard with the baby occasionally humming along with it, making the whole thing pure scariness. There's also the Big Bunyan Ride song:
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_3f3abe9	comment	The Rick and Morty episode "Lawnmower Dog" has a Freddy Krueger parody, Scary Terry, who comes along with a white-dressed little girl jumping a cord while singing his nursery rhyme: "A, B, his name is Scary Terry... C, D, he's very scary... E, F, he'll design your death..." When Rick tries to save himself and Morty from Terry, he knocks out the girl and incepts her dream... ending up in a copy of the environment they just escaped from, with another identical little girl continuing: "J, K, he'll really ruin your day..."
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_3f6951a	comment	Super Size Me uses a variant of this. The opening shows a group of young children repeating several lines of Product Placement as a group chant. This is intended to be off-putting and slightly disturbing. It's an actual song by the Fast Food Rockers named "Fast Food Song".
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_3fd2eb48	comment	In Snapshot (1979), Daryl is stalking Angela in a Mr. Whippy van. Several times Angela is unnerved when she hears the tinny version of "Greensleeves"—the tune Mr. whippy vans play—in the middle of the night, even though she cannot see the van.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_3fe6b4fb	comment	Midway through the New Jedi Order series, Mara Jade (former assassin for the Emperor) is told that she can probably be creepy even singing a nursery rhyme. She's amused, says that's easy, and sings the following fragment in a minor key: "Sleep, child, the night is mild, and slumber smiles upon you," making it sound as if "Slumber" is a grinning monster. Not only is it appropriate to the character, shortly thereafter a dark Jedi named "Lord Nyax" after a monster in a children's story appears.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_3ff0f7dd	comment	In KateModern: Precious Blood, drugged-up serial killer Terrence calls "Little pigs! Little pi-igs!", probably referencing The Shining. He also uses the (already slightly creepy) Breeniverse chant "The Hymn of One is fun!" after describing carrying out a ritualistic murder.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_412f0390	comment	In The Evil Dead (1981), Linda sings a creepy little song to the tune of "Ring Around the Rosie" while in Deadite form. "We're gonna get you, we're gonna get you / Not another peep, time to go to sleep."
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_4272dc3e	comment	And suddenly, its use in On the Beach (the 1959 film, at least) is all the more meaningful.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_42bb8b78	comment	In Ã†on Flux, when a former anarchist spy is implanted with a behavior-modifying... thing, she takes up a job writing nursery rhymes. Her recitation of one of her compositions, edited with an extreme close up of her face, is incredibly creepy.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_43576f5	comment	Supernatural has a possessed nurse cheerily singing "Patty Cake, Patty Cake, Baker's Man" to a newborn, but she has Black Eyes of Evil, and she plans to cook the baby as a meal for the demon Lilith.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_43577d61	comment	Alphabet ends with the Alphabet Song playing over the depressing finale: when all of the alphabet members, as children, drive F away after he's forced to spell "frick" by L and O, leading to him creating the punctuation crystals and hardening himself to become the Big Bad. The "next time won't you sing with me" part in particular plays after showing F is now completely alone, with the planet Z mourning his fate.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_43f300b9	comment	In Open Season, a hunter that barely seems competent during other scenes suddenly appears very menacing when quietly singing "Teddy Bears' Picnic" as he stalks the protagonist, a domesticated bear who'd been released into the wild and snuck into the cabin not knowing who the owner was. That the bear's former owner had used this song as a lullabye earlier in the film doesn't help.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_4525b993	comment	Hide and Seek: After Charlie takes over, David searches for his daughter while slowly sing "Hush, Little Baby" in a creepy way while holding a knife. If you listen through the credits, a little girl starts singing a creepy song: "Who's playing hide and seek? Won't you come play with me? Who's hiding in the dark? Come out, come out, let's play again..." The words aren't much until you hear the tune.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_459c7d42	comment	In the opening seconds of The Lost Boys, before the footage starts rolling, a little child's voice can be hears singing the first two lines of "Cry Little Sister". Although this song is also used with full vocal chorus and music at the beginning of the film and has since been covered by several bands as a Gothic rock anthem, that first soft-voiced A Cappella rendition sounds eerily like a children's nursery song.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_464a2270	comment	Epic Mickey features creepy versions of classic Disney songs mixed into the soundtrack: The background music for Dark Beauty Castle includes snippets from "Once Upon a Dream". The music for the Boss Battle with the Clock Tower is "It's a Small World After All". The music for Mickeyjunk Mountain includes a snippet from the theme song for The Mickey Mouse Club.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_474c18c1	comment	In BioShock Infinite there's a nursery song about the Songbird.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_47dfc6f	comment	Total Drama World Tour: "The cradle will fall, and down... will... come... GWEN!" Later done again in the 2023 reboot, with Scary Girl chanting "if you're gonna hide a body clap your hands" in the confessional after being disrespected by Ripper.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_48579832	comment	In "Nackles", after voicing his suspicions that the belief of children who have been told the story will soon make Nackles real all over the country, the narrator quotes a line from "Santa Claus is Coming to Town".
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_4991931c	comment	The majority of Rose Berlin's song "Coraline" is creepy, which is fitting when you consider the book it's based on. Then there's the following:note For added creep factor, this part is actually from the book. It's one of the various eerie little rhymes that the rats in the Other Mother's world chant, as are the other "in betweens" in the song.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_49ad83ee	comment	World of Warcraft has a rhyme sung by the children of Suramar reflecting their ten thousand years of isolation inside a magical shield.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_4a2ff29b	comment	Evil Dead: In The Evil Dead (1981), Linda sings a creepy little song to the tune of "Ring Around the Rosie" while in Deadite form. "We're gonna get you, we're gonna get you / Not another peep, time to go to sleep." Annie's mother-turned-Deadite in Evil Dead 2 sings "The Mockingbird Song" to try and lull her daughter into a trap. Later, Annie distracts her possessed mother long enough for Ash to get the edge over her by singing the same song. In Army of Darkness, Ash sings "London Bridge" while killing miniature versions of himself. Definitely played for laughs though, especially when he steps on a nail and the tiny Ashes finish the verse for him as he gasps in pain.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_4b48b6a0	comment	In Changeling, a serial killer sings "Silent Night" to make himself feel better immediately before he gets executed by hanging.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_4b6f8e36	comment	In Thunderbolts #120, Norman Osborn finally goes completely insane, puts on his old Goblin costume and starts killing people. In between cackling and declaring that he's God, he joyfully sings John Barleycorn, a traditional folk/drinking song that personifies wheat and barley and describes the harvesting process in the most violent way possible. Though the song was originally meant to be disturbing, having the Green Goblin sing it during a massacre makes it even worse.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_4ba244d2	comment	A teaser for Five Nights at Freddy's 2 features a chorus of children singing "London Bridge Is Falling Down". The game itself makes use of "My Grandfather's Clock" and "Pop Goes the Weasel", though more as Ominous Music Box Tunes.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_4c56381b	comment	The Binding of Isaac: One of the endings uses this trope. After the first time you beat It Lives, a creepy, distorted version of "Jesus Loves Me" will replace the credits theme. Rebirth features two of these on the soundtrack (but not in the game itself): Hush (Jesus Loves Uke), the song from the second trailer and possibly what was supposed to replace the "Jesus Loves Me" track from the original and "He's The Number One", both biblical songs with distorted vocals (though the latter has a normal voice providing vocals while more distorted voices sing along.)
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_4c746380	comment	In the anime of Inuyasha, Kagome's name is implied to have been derived from the old Japanese game "Kagome, Kagome" in which the players form a ring with a person in the middle with his or her eyes closed, then move in a circle around him or her, singing, and stop once the song is finished. The person in the middle then tries to guess who is standing behind them now. Although the song is very cryptic and has several interpretations, Kagome ultimately discovers Naraku behind the possessed priestess in this episode and shoots him.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_4d5b6107	comment	In The Usual Suspects, McManus sings a special version of "Old MacDonald" right before killing several people.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_4dae00fd	comment	Little Nightmares II makes heavy use of the melody of Three Blind Mice as a running motif in the score, combined with Creepy Children Singing and Ominous Music Box Tune.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_5153939c	comment	Storm of the Century has "I'm a little teapot..." Its memorable "Born in sin, come on in/Born in lust, turn to dust/Born in vice, say it twice..." doesn't really count, though — they're rhymes, but clearly not of the nursery variant.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_527fc353	comment	Swan Song: The Big Bad often sings "Here we go 'round the mulberry bush, the mulberry bush, the mulberry bush..." while doing something especially sinister.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_5320ab5e	comment	Columbo: The old nursery rhyme tune "This Old Man" becomes synonymous with Columbo, as Peter Falk liked the tune and used to whistle it and eventually incorporated it into the character. In fact, it's so associated with Columbo that it eventually becomes the closing theme!
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_53684a3f	comment	In Thief: Deadly Shadows, the coming of the Big Bad is prophesized in a variety of nursery rhymes.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_53c342f3	comment	The Parasitology trilogy has the in-universe children's book Don't Go Out Alone, a lengthy poem about a pair of young siblings who go looking for the monster that used to live under their bed, narrated by the monster in a disturbingly parental tone. To give you an idea of just how creepy it is, parts of it were recycled either from or into a Filk song about Silent Hill, of all things.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_562e8a6e	comment	Max Payne has a music box playing "Rock-a-Bye Baby" in the nursery where Max finds his infant daughter murdered, and during the Nightmare Sequence flashbacks of the scene.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_56db6965	comment	In the original, Japanese version of One Missed Call, there's the ringtone which announces the 'you're gonna die this day, at this hour, in this way' message, which is then revealed to be a theme tune from an old children's program. In the American version, it's revealed to be the song that a certain bear plushie plays when it's squeezed.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_56edb129	comment	The A Nightmare on Elm Street series has a fairly well-known rhyme associated with its dream killer, Freddy Krueger:
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_585b45e1	comment	American Horror Story: Asylum uses the cheerful Christian ditty "Dominique" in the break room scenes.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_585e73cc	comment	S.O.B.: In the film within a film Night Wind, Sally performs a bizarre striptease on a set full of sexual imagery that represents her subconscious to a Sexophone-infused version of "Polly Wolly Doodle".
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_592aa526	comment	Peeps: The companion book The Last Days discusses "Ring Around the Rosey," and the 700-year-old Night Mayor asserts that it's about the plague. Turns out he ate the kid who made it up.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_5946c980	comment	In a fifth season episode of Rebus, a man has had his wife and two children killed when his house was firebombed and has been reciting nursery rhymes on occasion since then. After shooting the two dirty cops responsible (killing one and causing the other serious brain damage), he recites "Pop Goes the Weasel" and then eats a bullet.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_5ad2b4e9	comment	In the flashback in Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker, Batman and Batgirl return to the condemned Arkham Asylum. As they walk through the dilapidated halls, they hear Harley Quinn singing "Hush, Little Baby". It only gets worse from there.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_5ae0bec6	comment	The WWE wrestler Boogeyman speaks almost exclusively in Ironic Nursery Tunes.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_5cb7fc72	comment	In System Shock 2, random snippets of children's songs (among other things) play during SHODAN's voice clips: at 3:50 in this excerpt, one can clearly hear Shirley Temple's "Animal Crackers in My Soup".
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_5cd1aa89	comment	It's used for ironic effect in 1984: the Thought Police echo the creepy final lines as they crash in and arrest Winston.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_5cdad167	comment	In Minority Report, the Swedish nurse Greta sings SmÃ¥ grodorna before Anderton's eye transplantation. The original text is Ej Ã¶ron, ej Ã¶ron, ej svansar hava de ("no ears, no ears, no tails they have") but it is sung ''Ej Ã¶gon, ej Ã¶gon'' ("no eyes") instead.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_5ce2f08b	comment	Black Butler: During an arc in the anime, a serial killer named Drocel keeps grinding his organ and sings a very creepy version of "London Bridge is Falling Down". His prey is young, beautiful girls that he turns into living dolls; the song is used to control said dolls and determine what materials to construct them from. Despite being male, he's kind enough to make an exception for Ciel. In the manga, we have "Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son" — but only the first verse, over and over.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_5ce3fc86	comment	The Soul Eater fanfic "The Hand That Rocks the Cradle" starts off perfectly innocent, with Marie singing a lullaby to her and Stein's baby son. But it turns into this trope when it's revealed that the singer is not Marie, but Medusa. She's kidnapped the child and intends to raise him as a Tykebomb to succeed where Crona failed. Oh, Crap!.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_5d4da196	comment	Spider-Man: "The itsy, bitsy spider went up the water spout..." Face Palm moment: An electronic Spider-Man toy sings that as well, and it is aimed at toddlers (a case of Misaimed Marketing, perhaps?).
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_5d66c1d1	comment	In Smart House, as Pat goes crazy and tries to show that she can be a mother to the kids, she starts singing "Hush Little Baby". It gets kind of creepy, especially because as she's doing this, she's summoning a giant hurricane in the house and terrorizing the family.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_6053d9f9	comment	Silent Hill: One puzzle in Silent Hill 2 involves combining three music boxes in the lobby of an empty hotel. Together they produce a haunting, nursery-rhyme-like melody. Also, in 'The Reverse Will', there is a vocal sample of Laura reciting the rhyme 'If I should die before I wake/I pray the Lord my soul to take'. But reversed. 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. Silent Hill: Origins uses the "Oranges and Lemons" rhyme, as mentioned above under Nineteen Eighty-Four. In this case, however, it's not "a chopper" but "The Butcher" who has come to chop off your head.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_60e8a8f4	comment	In the Jane Yellowrock short story "Signatures of the Dead", a young, insane rogue female vampire is briefly heard attempting to sing "Starlight, Star Bright", but can't remember the words:
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_620dd17c	comment	Heir of the Nightmare: Nightmare Moon sings "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" as she dementedly and viciously chases after her daughter Twilight.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_62570927	comment	Marvel Universe: In Thunderbolts #120, Norman Osborn finally goes completely insane, puts on his old Goblin costume and starts killing people. In between cackling and declaring that he's God, he joyfully sings John Barleycorn, a traditional folk/drinking song that personifies wheat and barley and describes the harvesting process in the most violent way possible. Though the song was originally meant to be disturbing, having the Green Goblin sing it during a massacre makes it even worse. The previews for Way of X have an ironic nursery rhyme for Krakoa's bogeyman, the Patchwork Man:
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_629cd094	comment	Dragon Age: Origins: Haven is definitely... off from the moment you arrive, to the point that your party will comment on it. Wandering around leads you to discover a boy, who starts rhyming. There are two others that play in the orphanage in Denerim. One is a little boy saying "One, two, Maric's run through/Three, four, the kingdom's at war/Eight, nine and now you die!", with laughter ending it. The other is a little girl saying "Do you hear me, Ser Wilhem, Ser Wilhem?/I am falling, Ser Wilhem, Ser Wilhem, today./I'm a maiden, Ser Wilhem, Ser Wilhem,/But I'm dying, Ser Wilhem, Ser Wilhem, in pain." And then there's the very creepy rhyme that Hespith recites in the Deep Roads.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_63230cb	comment	Dragon Ball Z Abridged: Freeza sings his own version of "My Favorite Things": Later on, Imperfect Cell is introduced creepily singing "Mr. Sandman". Makes sense, since he was partly made from Freeza's DNA.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_6415595c	comment	Early in The Deaths of Ian Stone, the main character's secondary love interest sings "Cross my heart and hope to die / Stick a needle in your eye" when he makes a promise to her. Much later, she matter-of-factly recites the first line while sticking an actual needle in his eye.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_66271544	comment	A Mighty Demon Slayer Grooms Some Ponies has Megan singing the old My Little Pony theme song as part of her Heroic BSoD after she is forced to kill one of the ponies, who has turned villainous.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_6715932e	comment	In Spirit Hunter: NG, Kubitarou of Kintoki goes around singing a children's song about the sacred cedar tree of Kintoki. Given that Kubitarou is an axe-murdering spirit with a horrible, groaning voice, the effect is rather chilling.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_6756334b	comment	In Deep Red, the killer plays a creepy children's song before committing the murders.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_681aacbe	comment	Walking down the street at the height of the 1918 Spanish Influenza, you would hear a few little girls in the playground singing this song as they jump rope:
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_68237790	comment	Pathfinder: Part one of the Carrion Crown campaign, The Haunting of Harrowstone, has a skipping song listing the murderers who burned to death in the Harrowstone Prison fire and now haunt the ruin. There are three in the Rise of the Runelords Adventure path as well. One is about a murderous scarecrow that eats children, based on a scarecrow-like golem that a local cult of murderers has been using. The second is about a monster called an "Attic Whisperer", an undead creature that preys on children and their families, created when a neglected child dies and made up of the dead kid's spirit animating abandoned toys. And finally the last one is sung by Goblins about how they want to eat you. It's surprisingly catchy.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_68ff28c9	comment	One puzzle in Silent Hill 2 involves combining three music boxes in the lobby of an empty hotel. Together they produce a haunting, nursery-rhyme-like melody.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_691be369	comment	The X-Files: Used the haunted mansion variation with "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" in "How the Ghosts Stole Christmas". While adding a very creepy/ironic air, the song was also strangely appropriate for a tongue-in-cheek episode revolving around holiday-inspired murder-suicide. In "Chinga", the evil doll kills to the tune of the Hokey Pokey. This trope was used to the ultimate creep factor in "Invocation". The nursery song "All the Pretty Little Horses" is played throughout the episode, both instrumental and lyrical, and is even backmasked on Scully's tape recorder; the point being to lead Scully and Doggett to a little boy's kidnapper and murderer, who sang the song to keep him quiet.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_6a622466	comment	Halloween III: Season of the Witch features a recurring advertising jingle for Silver Shamrock novelties sung to the tune of "London Bridge is Falling Down". This becomes increasingly sinister as we learn of Silver Shamrock's actual purpose. Becomes doubly chilling considering that the tune is changing with each passing day — "Six more days to Halloween, Halloween, Halloween..." Considering that Halloween is when the Silver Shamrock masks will kill every child wearing them, it's actually a countdown.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_6abf16c2	comment	Big Finish Doctor Who: That creepy Zagreus rhyme in the Eighth Doctor audio adventures, which 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!
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_6b879da2	comment	The ghosts in the short story "Ashes, Ashes" from the compilation Somewhere Beneath Those Waves sing the eponymous nursery rhyme to draw attention to their skeletons.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_6c148044	comment	The name of Solomon Grundy, Super Zombie of Green Lantern (1941) and onward, was based on a nursery rhyme of a man "born on a Monday" and "died on a Saturday."
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_6c2817c7	comment	In The Name of the Rose, Salvatore sings an old tuscan lullaby while he's tied to the stake.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_6cd819eb	comment	In Skulduggery Pleasant: The Dying of the Light, the group hunting Remnants (pure evil, body-snatching shadow creatures) finds one of them sitting in the middle of a deserted street singing "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star".
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_6cf91dbb	comment	"I'm a Little Teapot" appears in Rose Red. Stephen King certainly seems to love this rhyme.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_6d7d71c7	comment	Closing Time features the song "Midnight Lullaby", which makes liberal, and ironic, use of "Song of Sixpence", but not to creepy effect. Just ironic as in "I'm lonely and impoverished." He uses this trope to more standardly nightmarish effect in "Everything You Can Think of Is True" and "Misery Is the River of the World", featured on Alice and Blood Money respectively. The latter album also provides the page quote in the form of "Lullaby".
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_6de33ac8	comment	The Huntress killer in Dead by Daylight will alert survivors that she is nearby by softly humming a Russian lullaby, "Baju". With perks, this can also make them regress their ability to skill-check.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_6e94492	comment	How It Should Have Ended runs with the Avengers: Age of Ultron example in their send-up of the trailer. After "I've Got No Strings", Ultron goes on to sing "A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes", "A Whole New World", and "Hakuna Matata", with the Avengers being increasingly agitated. They become hysterical once he finishes with "Do You Want To Build a Snowman?". This goes on into The Stinger, in which Batman and Superman offer to team up with him against the Avengers. He answers with "You've Got a Friend in Me".
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_6eceba8d	comment	Fatal Frame III has this with the "Sleep Priestess" song sung by the four young handmaidens.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_6f755c88	comment	Meanwhile, trailers for the spinoff game The Park feature prominent usage of "Five Little Ducks", though only using the final verse. In the game itself, Lorraine can occasionally be heard singing the song in an attempt to draw Callum back to her as he flees deeper into the abandoned amusement park, and Callum will occasionally reply with the following lyrics; more disturbingly, the Bogeyman a.k.a. Nathaniel Winter can be heard singing his own variation of the song as he lures Callum and Lorraine into the basement of the House of Horrors. Tragically, as with the rhyme, Callum (the "little duck") never comes back.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_6f755cc3	comment	The trailer The Path, a surreal modern retelling of "Little Red Riding Hood", includes a recitation of this rhyme from the end of the original tale:
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_718f3ed1	comment	The trailer for Call of Duty: Black Ops II's Zombies mode features zombies attacking a bus while a creepy version of "The wheels on the bus go round and round" plays.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_7257afca	comment	Sword Art Online Abridged's second episode, in which a player sees a vision of a giant hallucinatory Jesus that tells him to "kill them all", ends with a discordant rendition of "Jesus Loves Me" and the appearance of the Laughing Coffin symbol.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_7291539d	comment	Batman: Arkham City: When you visit him, Calendar Man can be heard reciting the pneumonic device "Thirty Days Hath September" in his Creepy Monotone. At the very end of the credits, you can hear Harley Quinn sing this to her and the Joker's child: "Hush, little baby, don't say a word, Momma's gonna kill for you the whole damn world..."
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_73ed0aab	comment	Jeepers Creepers turns the title tune into a horrifying premonition.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_73f86f22	comment	In Hocus Pocus, the youngest of the three witches, Sarah, sings a magical nursery rhyme to lure young children to the witches' home, where they will be sacrificed to preserve the witches' youth.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_745711f9	comment	Used extensively in the "French invasion of England" chapters of Look to the West. When the French steam fleet sails up the Thames to bombard London, we get interludes of "London's Burning" and, of course, when their rocket ship clears the only barrier before them:
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_74603f32	comment	Arcane: In the opening scene, Powder sings a song about being poor and asking a friend across the river for a penny, promising not to envy. This as she covers her eyes to hide from the violence and dead bodies from Enforcers of Piltover mercilessly gunning down an uprising by the people of Zaun rebelling against the staggering wealth disparity.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_76278042	comment	Suspiria (1977): The opening sequence has a metallic toy piano playing over the heroines journey to her new job at a ballet school, to creepy effect. The infamously confusing trailer starts with a variation on "Roses are red, violets are blue".
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_76c01b30	comment	A partial example with the use of the Guy Fawkes rhyme ("Remember, remember...") in V for Vendetta — while it is obviously dark in tone and based on real events, most modern British people don't stop to think about the lyrics, much like most nursery rhymes.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_76cb191b	comment	In The Invisibles, the demon Orlando leaves a recording of "Pop Goes the Weasel" playing in the house of a family he has butchered.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_76d5650d	comment	Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation has one young female trooper, under the control of a Puppeteer Parasite, singing "Itsy Bitsy Spider" before trying to take out the heroes with a pair of live grenades.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_7785278d	comment	BioShock: BioShock: One of the Little Sisters can be heard singing a creepy little song to the tune of "FrÃ¨re Jacques". You'll also hear music from the 1940s playing in the background in certain areas, and it continues playing as you fight off hordes of splicers. Probably the creepiest 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... which is secretly home to a conditioning lab that turns little girls into the ADAM-gathering Little Sisters. The orphanage isn't the worst use of that song, not by a long shot. The worst use comes in Fort Frolic, where it's playing when you enter the flooded wine cellar. Why is it the worst? Because you enter the cellar by passing through two rows of plaster statues that are scariness personified all by themselves... and because it's your first clue that those statues might not be all they seem. Splicers are often heard singing "Jesus loves me, this I know..." when they are looking for you. In BioShock 2, the Little Sisters are sometimes singing to themselves when gathering ADAM. In BioShock Infinite there's a nursery song about the Songbird.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_7884e8d1	comment	In Pulp Fiction, while Bruce Willis and Ving Rhames are Bound and Gagged in a Torture Cellar beneath a perverted hick's pawnshop, the owner's similarly creepy brother decides which of the captives to torture and sodomize first by reciting "Eeny, meeny, miney, moe â€¦" For bonus points, he uses an antiquated version of the rhyme containing the N word in place of "tiger."
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_79147a14	comment	Let's not forget "Hilf Mir", and its original inspiration: "Die gar traurige Geschichte mit dem Feuerzeug". Refined scariness, and in a child's story book, too...
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_791fca44	comment	BioShock: One of the Little Sisters can be heard singing a creepy little song to the tune of "FrÃ¨re Jacques". You'll also hear music from the 1940s playing in the background in certain areas, and it continues playing as you fight off hordes of splicers. Probably the creepiest 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... which is secretly home to a conditioning lab that turns little girls into the ADAM-gathering Little Sisters. The orphanage isn't the worst use of that song, not by a long shot. The worst use comes in Fort Frolic, where it's playing when you enter the flooded wine cellar. Why is it the worst? Because you enter the cellar by passing through two rows of plaster statues that are scariness personified all by themselves... and because it's your first clue that those statues might not be all they seem. Splicers are often heard singing "Jesus loves me, this I know..." when they are looking for you.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_79847263	comment	Droopy has an example Played for Laughs in the cartoon "Thanks a Latte": after driving Wolfie crazy from unexplicably coming back to ask him for a tip after making him a latte, Wolfie escapes the airplane they're in, only for Droopy to make a dry remark to the rhythm of "Ring Around The Rosey" .
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_7a380f3b	comment	General Hospital: Laura Spencer sings "Brahm's Lullaby" to her baby girl as mobsters take their revenge on her husband and his business partner. We get scenes of said partner's errand boy and his girlfriend huddling behind a car to avoid the gunfire, said partner's own girlfriend diving to the floor of her shower as the hitmen spray the bathroom with bullets, and finally, the Spencer house being pelted — all with Laura's soothing voice playing over everything. A few months later, Laura sung "Hush Little Baby" to her baby girl and another child she happened to be babysitting, blissfully unaware that the house she was in was being torched (she was upstairs). This time, her soothing voice plays over scenes of the fire consuming everything.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_7b217f86	comment	Axeman: The Axeman whistles "Three Blind Mice" during the climax.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_7b2ce128	comment	Centaurworld has a few references to a spooky lullaby about a "Nowhere King". The "Nowhere King" turns out to be the Big Bad behind the monsters threatening both Horse and Rider's world and Centaurworld.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_7bcc597	comment	In Daffy Duck's Quackbusters, Daffy finds himself in a parody of The Exorcist, and the possessed Regan stand-in goes Jekyll & Hyde on a classic: "Mary had a little lamb... BUT I ATE IT!"
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_7cabe488	comment	Bendy and the Ink Machine: Sammy sings one as he's about to sacrifice Henry to Bendy. The Alice Angel theme song that plays as Henry is introduced to the... real-life version.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_7cb04bb5	comment	The Inside No. 9 episode "Sardines" features one about a baby sardine.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_7ce12025	comment	The protagonist of Tetsuo III: The Bullet Man sings "Hush, Little Baby" to himself during various disturbing scenes, to calm himself down. It apparently helps to keep him from transforming.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_7e054f71	comment	In Outlast: Whistleblower, a document can be found about Mount Massive's resident delusional serial killer, Eddie Gluskin, with someone's rhyme about just what he'll do to you should he catch you.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_7ff41376	comment	"London Bridge" is used in the original Dark Shadows. Initially, Barnabas' sister Sarah sings it and plays it on a recorder when she appears to Maggie Evans and later to David Collins. She helps Maggie to escape from the cell where Barnabas has trapped her hoping to make her remember her past life as his love Josette. After she is found, Maggie spends several episodes in an insane asylum; she can only recite the lyrics to the song, and it's clear that she's trying to tell people what happened:
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_80ece066	comment	The Teenage Worrier's Panick Diary mentions that part of Letty's movie about war was a montage of child soldiers which she planned to set to a creepy distorted nursery rhyme soundtrack, but couldn't choose between "Humpty Dumpty" or "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star".
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_81ccfb64	comment	In Blood Brothers, a group of children sing a song about Mrs. Lyons, a character who over time gets more and more paranoid.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_81cef04f	comment	The Woman in Black has a hell of a one in the trailer:
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_82066ce7	comment	In The Haunting in Connecticut, the main central tune is "Two Dead Boys".
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_829b2f67	comment	Freeza sings his own version of "My Favorite Things":
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_82d5c9d9	comment	One of the teaser trailers for We Happy Few features Uncle Jack singing a twisted version of "London Bridge is Falling Down". In keeping with the game's theme, the lyrics in Uncle Jack's version are about how London Bridge has fallen down, but everyone should forget it happened and carry on like "everything is quite alright".
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_836e1a4e	comment	One chapter of Agatha H. and the Airship City starts with a children's naming game about slaver wasps and Baron Wulfenbach's usual means of dealing with them.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_84edf220	comment	In one of the very first segments on The Tracey Ullman Show, the kids are each being put to bed with something said that keeps them awake and freaked out — Marge sings "Rock-a-bye Baby" to Maggie, who visualizes herself falling out of a tall tree on a windy day.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_854344f9	comment	The German song "Mamatschi" will forever be remembered by most people as the song that plays in Schindler's List as children are taken away by Nazis to be killed as their mothers run after the trucks, screaming. The song itself can be very disturbing, as the cheerful melody tells the story of a boy begging his mother for a horse, but never getting one, complaining about how he didn't want horses "like these" (of candy or wood) and later as an adult remembering this when he sees the chariot that carries his mother's coffin, making the outcry that he didn't want horses "like these" rather heart-breaking.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_866d0d47	comment	In Insomnia, the Big Bad (who is essentially one of the three Fates, normally invisible "little bald doctors", who are Death) repeatedly sings a skipping song, while skipping with a skipping rope that he stole:
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_877bfaf7	comment	Better Bones AU: The Clans make up one concerning Tigerstar's death that describes in gruesome detail all of the organs that fell out of his body, which serves to teach young cats the names of those organs.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_88f055ec	comment	Full Metal Jacket ends with American soldiers in Vietnam marching through burning ruins while singing the "Mickey Mouse March".
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_8ba4613a	comment	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 occasionally killing those around her.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_8ba95144	comment	Creepshow has a relentlessly ominous example in the short "Something to Tide You Over". While the hero is enduring his drowning death, the soundtrack uses the chords from "Camptown Races" to make his wait for death almost unendurable.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_8cea2648	comment	In Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, the Big Bad Kingpin enters by singing a few bars of the old Spider-Man theme song, while the superhero himself is pinned down by minions and at his mercy.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_8d8157e0	comment	In Lexx episode "Brigadoom", the main musical motif for Kai and the eventual destruction of the Brunnen-g ("The time prophet/It will be a good way to die") is a note-for-note rendition of an Armenian lullaby, "Babuska Bay-oh" ("Sleep, my little one").
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_8d817ccb	comment	Lost: An episode has Sayid and Shannon trying to translate maps that they've found from the French woman. Shannon recognizes the lyrics as a song that she heard while in France and starts singing the French original of Bobby Darin's "Beyond The Sea".note Which would explain why she referred to it as a French song; viewers only familiar with the American version of the song might have been confused by this. It's pretty creepy considering where they are, contrasting with the jovial tune of the song. In an episode during the final season, this trope was used once again. This time, we hear an imprisoned and psychotic Claire singing "Catch a falling star". If you thought the snippets you heard the first time were creepy, boy, are you in for a surprise. After the smoke monster massacres those in the temple who chose not to follow it as Locke, we hear the full version of Claire singing it. While we see bodies of those slaughtered and Sayid and Claire bearing satisfied smirks.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_8d81bb26	comment	In the NCIS episode "Chimera", Team Gibbs is investigating a seemingly abandoned and downright eerie ship where some unknown black op mission was being conducted. Tony, who had earlier been bantering with Ziva about the difference between a black ship and a black sheep, quietly sings a revised "Baa Baa Black Sheep" as he searches one of the rooms. It loses its creepiness when he rapidly shoehorns a line about not having the security clearance to even know what they're looking for into the song.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_8dd0bbcc	comment	A Series of Unfortunate Events: Book the Eighth's accompanying song, Smile! No One Cares How You Feel; Book the Twelfth's Things Are Not What They Appear feels like this as well. The Film of the Book plays music-box tunes and the saccharine "Littlest Elf" song during tragic scenes. Also, The World Is a Very Scary Place. The lyrics could be threatening, to an extent, but the music is just so upbeat.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_8e5d77e6	comment	Marnie incorporates the jump-rope chant "Mother Mother" into a scene where Marnie arrives at her mother's house for the first time, which is later revealed to be where she murdered a man and lost her childhood innocence. It's actually given a Triumphant Reprise at the end.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_8eda89ef	comment	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.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_8f0f708d	comment	In Turbulence, after the serial killer breaks loose and (supposedly) kills everyone on the plane except the flight attendant heroine, he stalks after her while gently singing "Buffalo Sally, won'tcha come out tonight, come out tonight..."
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_9004922f	comment	The prayer can take on a distinctly creepy tone all by itself if you think about it the wrong way — in Hogfather, Susan notes that it was taught to Twyla and Gawain by their previous governess and the impression she got was that it carried the rider that the second half was the preferred result. At the time it was played for laughs, but now think about a child saying it with the same intent.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_90131d5c	comment	In the London play of The Woman in Black, whenever Arthur Kipps goes into the abandoned nursery, the musical box will start playing Brahms Lullaby. Cue audience screaming and hugging of complete strangers.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_9089a9b1	comment	In the second book of Libba Bray's Gemma Doyle trilogy, Rebel Angels, Nell (a Bedlam patient) sings the old nursery tune "Jack and Jill" in a creepy manner every time we see her. Also, when the Bedlam patients have a little performance in front of their benefactors, she makes up a creepy little song about various vaguely ridiculous-sounding evils and how to defend them. Everyone thinks it's funny, but it later turns out it was a message for the heroines because everything she said was true...
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_9096e12c	comment	In CarnivÃ le, the Billie Holiday song "Love Me or Leave Me" is heard in the background on occasion, usually when something freaky is going on.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_90b916ba	comment	The Mad Hatter in Batman: The Animated Series, based as he is on the Alice in Wonderland character, uses these as part of his schtick. In one scene, he's stalking Bats through a giant maze, taunting him with "Twinkle, Twinkle, little Bat! How I wonder what you're at!"
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_90d45233	comment	The Underland Chronicles: The book Gregor and the Mark of Secret features a nursery rhyme that turns out to be a prophecy detailing the Holocaust-esque genocide of a group of innocent mice. Also, the nursery rhyme features the line "Some will slice and some will pour". This sounds like an innocent tea party but turns out to be a description of the medieval-style warfare used in the Underland. "Slicing" refers to the use of swords, and "pouring" refers to the pouring of boiling oil over the walls of a fortress or castle to stop a siege. Given the "revelation" that Sandwich's prophecies are either nonsense or so vague as to be practically so, this seems a lot less significant.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_90f7114	comment	Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street: Tobias chants "Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, baker's man" in an eerie voice as he picks up Sweeney's razor and slits Sweeney's throat. Let's not forget Mrs. Lovett singing "Nothing's gonna hurt you" while hunting Tobias through the sewers in the film version. Many of the songs are disturbingly dissonant, like when Sweeney has a beautiful round of "Pretty Women" with the guy he plans to kill, or the cheerful song about how great the meat pies are. You know, those meat pies. The film may also contain an inversion: "Johanna", when sung in the movie, is a sweet and romantic song about love overcoming every obstacle. When heard on its own, the lyrics are very creepy. Plus, "A Little Priest" is what one might consider a... subversion? It's full of happy, cheerful, downright corny puns, but the actual subject of the song and the levity of the characters is actually what makes the scene funny.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_914ba844	comment	In The Wizard of Oz, when Dorothy and her friends are cornered by the royal guards of the castle:
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_9153ccb1	comment	Before the infamous "Here's Johnny!" scene in The Shining, Jack goes through a bit from "The Three Little Pigs" before hacking at the door with his axe. "Little pigs, little pigs, let me come in... Not by the hair on your chinny chin chin? Then I'll huff, and I'll puff, and blow your house in!" His Madness Mantra is another example: "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy."
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_91bfaf94	comment	The Ring: Samara Morgan sings the following, nightmarish nursery rhyme to herself instants before being suffocated and tossed in a well to die by her adoptive mother: The melody was already the movie's theme long before the rhyme itself was revealed, and was made even creepier after the fact. In the original Japanese version, Ringu, the nursery rhyme is about staying away from the ocean, or else monsters will get you, an allusion to the fact that Sadako is likely an oceanic demigoddess.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_927f559c	comment	Roommates: The Scrible Person (a.k.a. Living Words a.k.a. Story) is literally made out of "Ring Around the Rosey", when it guides the spear, which kills the Champion in the Kings War arc.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_92916f5a	comment	Shrek: Lord Farquaad taunts the Gingerbread man by holding his missing legs and saying "Run run run as fast as you can, you can't catch me I'm the gingerbread man!". There's also a parody of "It's a Small World" in the Duloc welcome box that combines this with Lyrical Dissonance. It uses the cheery tune and smiling characters, but is actually giving quite a few clues as to how rigid and dystopian Duloc has become. In the Halloween special ''Scared Shrekless' there is a Halloween variation of it.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_95818d99	comment	Killer7 does this with Emir Parkreiner whistling "Greensleeves"/"What Child is This?" as he murders the Smiths.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_9696c53b	comment	In Army of Darkness, Ash sings "London Bridge" while killing miniature versions of himself. Definitely played for laughs though, especially when he steps on a nail and the tiny Ashes finish the verse for him as he gasps in pain.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_976efc02	comment	Mystery Science Theater 3000 lampshades this trope's use in the episode riffing Squirm, which has a child singing a lullaby over the opening credits. Servo chimes in and starts substituting the lullaby lyrics with the words "Evil little kid music..."
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_999299b5	comment	A classic, from The 7th Guest. One scene in the game has a shorter version of the rhyme that has different lyrics, is sung by children, and is played backwards.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_999e5e75	comment	Scratches uses this in combination with Ominous Music Box Tune once, and then we have this BGM on a hidden room.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_9a67b688	comment	Case Closed: The leader of the Black Organization uses a popular Japanese children's song written by Noguchi UjÅ� — titled "Nanatsu no Ko" (ä¸ƒã�¤ã�®å�, lit. "Seven Children" or "Child of Seven") — to encode his/her phone number.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_9ac053cb	comment	In Cat People and The Curse of the Cat People, Irena hums a wordless lullaby that is both soothing and slightly creepy.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_9d47a2a2	comment	A Song of Ice and Fire gives us a strange version of this via Patchface, the Fool of Stannis Baratheon's court. He's usually used as a glorified babysitter simply because his horrible rhymes/shanties/songs make little to no sense to any adult who hears them, so they are merely dismissed as him just being his brain-damaged, lackwit, nutsy self. Yet, they (and he) are somehow still deemed suitably safe-yet-creepy enough for children! The creepier the lyrics get, and the more tortured the poor rhyme tacked to the metre becomes, the more accurate (and scary) the genuine prophecy masquerading as random drivel generally is. Brrrrrrr.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_9d7264f	comment	Happens as well in the eighth season finale of CSI: Miami: ring around the rosie; a pocket full of posies... Ashes, ashes, we all fall DOWN.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_9db82263	comment	One particularly chilling scene in The Birds is a perfect example. Melanie is waiting to pick up someone from the schoolhouse, so she sits outside on a bench. As she lights a cigarette, the children inside can be heard singing "Risseldy Rosseldy", an English nonsense song ("I married my wife in the month of June, risseldy-rosseldy, mau-mau-mau..."). As they do, a single crow flies behind Melanie and lands on the jungle gym... and then another... and then another... When she finally looks up, the entire structure is covered with crows, silently waiting for the children to emerge...
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_9e003c9	comment	Resident Evil â€“ Code: Veronica has the musical piece "Berceuse" (taken from the French for "Lullaby"), which is the leitmotif of Alfred and Alexia's childhood. As played in the game, it's fairly unremarkable, and barely qualifies as an Ominous Music Box Tune. However, the game's OST has a vocal version of the song, which reveals that it's about a friendly but naive king wed to a ruthlessly evil queen who ultimately murders him to seize power for herself. The vocal version of the song reappears in the Code: Veronica levels for Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles, in which it's retitled as "Alexia's Lullabye", and it makes it impossible to not be creeped out by the instrumental version ever again.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_9e2f90f4	comment	In one chapter of One Piece as the battle of the World Government and Whitebeard draws close and reactions of people around the world are shown, small children on the Grand Line sing a nursery rhyme-style song about how fearsome Whitebeard is as they play and the woman watching them comments that even they know what's going on.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_9e87390e	comment	The previews for Way of X have an ironic nursery rhyme for Krakoa's bogeyman, the Patchwork Man:
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_9f2cd38d	comment	In Night of the Owls, the Court of Owls has an old nursery rhyme about them:
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_a03824e8	comment	The DCU: When written by Jeph Loeb, the Batman villain Scarecrow frequently sings "The Mockingbird Song". The name of Solomon Grundy, Super Zombie of Green Lantern (1941) and onward, was based on a nursery rhyme of a man "born on a Monday" and "died on a Saturday." In Night of the Owls, the Court of Owls has an old nursery rhyme about them:
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_a32b6a64	comment	The West Wing: At the end of "Noel", a group of singers perform an a cappella rendition of "Carol of the Bells" that's surprisingly eerie. It's also an In-Universe example, as Josh Lyman's PTSD is triggered by music, and it's clear that the singing is causing him to have flashbacks to when he was nearly killed by a gunman.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_a4515c7c	comment	OFF has "Race of a Thousand Ants" playing in the background as the Batter bludgeons Hugo, his creator and baby "son", to death with his baseball bat. Many players tend to get undesirable flashbacks when hearing it afterwards, as a result.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_a5fc80a8	comment	The use of "Au Claire de la Lune" in The Bad Seed (1956).
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_a6543322	comment	A Touhou Project fan remix, "Sweets Time Midnight", sets Flandre Scarlet's famous leitmotif to a nursery rhyme. The lyrics don't make a lot of sense when read literally, but a little imagination about the "dolls" or food being mentioned turns the whole song into Nightmare Fuel.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_a825da3e	comment	Magic: The Gathering: The Phyrexian Hulk has this wonderfully disturbing flavor text: Another example is Infectious Host: Shadows Over Innistrad adds another one in the form of a children's prayer to the archangel Avacyn on Always Watching.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_a87a2e5e	comment	In the first book of the Tunnels series, "You Are My Sunshine" is used very creepily indeed.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_a949e666	comment	In Elysium, Kruger tries calming Frey's daughter, Matilda, with an Afrikaans children's tune as they're being taken to Elysium. She's being "comforted" by the man who beat her mother and stated his intent to "settle down with her", on top of a man with a live grenade being in close proximity. Worse, it's a song of a married man and woman going about their life after spending a night together.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_aa36ae9e	comment	A fictional one in Shaman Blues, while never mentioned in entirety, is about victims of a brutal series of child murders.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_aa9366f9	comment	Nightwish (Band): "Dead Boy's Poem" is made creepy not so much for the fact that this little boy is talking so calmly about suicide and being forgotten but because he's begging to be forgotten so that he doesn't have to feel the pain of his broken heart anymore. "Scaretale" opens with a creepy chorus of children singing "Ring Around the Rosie" and later develops into Creepy Circus Music.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_ab3076a5	comment	VG Cats: "Frosty the Snowman" is used in this utterly creepy and disturbing comic. The VG Cats Adaptation with No Name uses the same tune in their Christmas Special.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_abd5699	comment	Plague Inc. has several sound effects randomly played over the main view of the world map. One has a child singing "Ring Around the Rosie" with an echo. The echo makes it sound extremely creepy.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_abe2e836	comment	And Then There Were None features a rhyme about Indian boys being killed one by one, which many of the characters recognized from their nursery days. Said characters are killed in the same manner as the Indians in the song. There are even Indian dolls in the living room that disappear as the characters are bumped off. This is an arguably benign and harmless bowdlerisation of the original. Both rhyme and book were originally entitled "Ten Little Niggers", one paperback actually featured a hanged golliwog (a kind of gonk doll based on a blackface minstrel figure) on the cover. It was later further bowdlerized as "Ten Little Soldier Boys". Acceptable targets keep moving...
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_ac03f223	comment	FlashForward (2009) has an episode that opens with the U.S. version of "Ring-a-Ring-of-Roses" sung/whispered by a group of children; it's amazingly creepy.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_ae0356e0	comment	Courage the Cowardly Dog: In the final episode "Perfect", a twisted, minor version of "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" often is heard when preceding the appearance of the strict and cruel ghostly teacher who proceeds to mentally dismantle the main character into a nervous wreck over his "imperfection". A few times, it's accompanied by the original light and happy version, which makes it worse as it veers into a cracked negative key when something goes wrong. It's even heard at the beginning of the episode. Freaky Fred and his theme song: a creepy version of "Ring Around the Rosey".
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_ae369c06	comment	A Clockwork Orange doesn't use a nursery rhyme, but it uses the next best thing: "Singin' in the Rain", a musical number from The Golden Age of Hollywood. Alex sings this song while he and his droogs torture an old writer and rape his wife.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_aeaf3d1b	comment	Life on Mars (2006) includes nursery rhymes spoken by the Test Card F girl.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_aeedbded	comment	"Mistress Mary, Quite Contrary" is sung by the ghosts several times throughout The Secret Garden.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_af6a4464	comment	The Secret World: Issue #7 features the Sleepless Lullaby, a rather eerie piece of music used to keep the young test subjects at the Nursery pacified. Judging by the lyrics scrawled on the walls of other facilities earlier in the issue, it's had some less-than pleasant side-effects on the children; for good measure, it's actually written and performed by the band Bright September, and the song itself is every bit as creepy as those graffitied lyrics make it seem. Throughout Issue #6 and #7, the Dreamers have a particular fascination with nursery rhymes — appropriate, given that the Gaia Engines are keeping them suppressed with arcane lullabies. Lore for "A Dream to Kill For" reveals that the Dreamers can be heard uttering stanzas from "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star"note "When the blazing sun is gone, when the nothing shines upon..." while they wait to feast upon the cosmos, while in Issue #6, one Dreamer can be heard whispering a few mangled lines from "Ring Around the Rosie". However, the prize for creepiness goes to the Dreamers' rendition of "Row, Row, Row, Your Boat" in "The Vanishing of Tyler Freeborn": Meanwhile, trailers for the spinoff game The Park feature prominent usage of "Five Little Ducks", though only using the final verse. In the game itself, Lorraine can occasionally be heard singing the song in an attempt to draw Callum back to her as he flees deeper into the abandoned amusement park, and Callum will occasionally reply with the following lyrics; more disturbingly, the Bogeyman a.k.a. Nathaniel Winter can be heard singing his own variation of the song as he lures Callum and Lorraine into the basement of the House of Horrors. Tragically, as with the rhyme, Callum (the "little duck") never comes back.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_b067b820	comment	Heather Dale's song "Mordred's Lullaby." Morgause is crooning to her infant son about how she's going to shape his very soul to utterly loathe his father, all so he can die enacting her vengeance against him. Talk about your Evil Matriarchs...
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_b0869b12	comment	Ashes to Ashes (2008): In the sixth episode of season three, resident Big Bad Jim Keats whistles the West Ham fight song, "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles". It gets sinister when he whistles it while slowly approaching a dying Viv James, refusing to call for help or comfort Viv.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_b0bd1e3d	comment	Lemmings. We All Fall Down. Nuff said.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_b0ea57d9	comment	The music for Mickeyjunk Mountain includes a snippet from the theme song for The Mickey Mouse Club.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_b1d8c295	comment	In Plants vs. Zombies, "Pop Goes the Weasel" plays whenever the creepy Jack-In-The-Box Zombie enters the scene. And the fact that the Jack-In-The-Box is actually a bomb makes it all the scarier. Though, the game's cute visuals and overall humor make this a lighter example than most.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_b2653c12	comment	An early villain in Abarat has realized the power of this trope, and sings tunes like these whenever he really wants to scare someone. They're not songs from our world, however, but openly sinister tunes apparently devised by Card Carrying Villains for Enfant Terribles. "Forget the future, forget the past. Your life is over. Breathe your last."
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_b2dd041e	comment	Tales of Hearts opens with this ditty. Of course, at the end of the game, when the day is saved, the heroes compose a new, more hopeful version of the fairy tale.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_b2e5493d	comment	In Animamundi Dark Alchemist, Georik's little sister has a habit of singing. "Hot Cross Buns" wasn't so bad, it was in fact pretty cute. But "Baa Baa Black Sheep", "Lizzie Borden Took an Axe" and "Solomon Grundy" were creepy. Notably, Georik tells her to stop singing because it was disturbing him.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_b369b969	comment	Dr. No plays a calypso rendition of "Three Blind Mice" during a scene of three hitmen Obfuscating Disability.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_b36c38cd	comment	Jaws: Sean Brody makes sand castles and sings "The Muffin Man" immediately before Alex Kintner is delivered to Bruce on a plate — er, raft.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_b40d4111	comment	The nursery rhyme takes on a different sort of irony than the classical version of this trope in Stardust. The hairy little man Tristran Thorn meets asks if he knows how to get to Babylon, seemingly offhandedly, and Tristran recites a nursery rhyme about it. The little man, being a native of Faerie, where knowledge can be just as viable a form of payment as anything tangible, is flabbergasted that they would throw away such valuable information as a means of entertaining children.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_b616e19b	comment	Korn: Shoots And Ladders is a whole song about nursery rhymes, mentioning how many of them are not quite so innocent as they seem. And then goes into full-on creepy, weaving several rhymes into a rant. Korn singer Jonathan Davis used the example of the lyrics to "Ring Around the Rosie" being about the bubonic plague (which they weren't). Dead Bodies Everywhere features a creepy music box interspersed with the metal.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_b62595eb	comment	Amatsuki uses the ancient Japanese poem "Tooryanse", about either getting blessings for your child when it turns seven — first stanza — or burying it on its seventh birthday — second stanza, to incredibly creepy effect, sung by a choir of children in an eerie whisper and accompanied only by the occasional ringing of a bell. Now remember that the Yakou has a bell. Its sound drives people insane...
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_b65ae944	comment	Silent Hill: Origins uses the "Oranges and Lemons" rhyme, as mentioned above under Nineteen Eighty-Four. In this case, however, it's not "a chopper" but "The Butcher" who has come to chop off your head.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_b799e25a	comment	In Hitherby Dragons, the rhyme "Skin and Bones" includes the verse:
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_ba70ed0c	comment	In the horror film Pearl, there is a scene where the titular character curls up in her dead motherâ€™s arms while she sings a German lullaby to her in her imagination, all set over a Gross-Up Close-Up montage of Pearl dismembering and feeding one of her victims to a gator, and preparing the other two as well as a maggot-infested pig to look â€œpresentableâ€� for her husband when he returns from the war.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_bac444b9	comment	"Mairzy Doats" is sung during a torture scene in The Cell.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_bbd1c54b	comment	In Midnight Cowboy, Joe Buck flashes back to scenes of his childhood while riding the Greyhound bus in the middle of the night and staring out the window; the voice of his grandmother singing "Hush, Little Baby" accompanies the scene.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_bc1dc95a	comment	Pirates of the Caribbean: The films use the original Disney song, "Yo Ho (A Pirate's Life for Me)", to creepy effect, primarily by having a young girl sing it slowly and in a minor key, instead of a pack of pirates singing upbeat and in major. This is then inverted in The Stinger of Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, with Will Turner, Jr. singing it in its original major key. "Hoist the Colors" is first sung in Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End by a young boy and his fellow probably-not-all pirates on their way to the gallows. In Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, the mermaids' version of "My Jolly Sailor Bold" is particularly creepy due to the monotone way it's sung, and what almost happens next...
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_bc3e398b	comment	Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles has the A.I. John Henry and Savannah Weaver singing "Where's Your Trousers?" over scenes of Sarah being taken in by police and Derek's burial.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_bd3f6ba4	comment	In chapter 75 of Gensokyo 20XXV, we have a poltergeist of Yukari's memories singing "Kagome, Kagome", the Japanese equivalent, with some of the verses being changed, translating to,
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_bdb95bee	comment	"On the Nickel" from Heartattack and Vine is another pseudo-lullaby, this one about little boys who don't do what they should and grow up to be skid row homeless.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_beac6ffb	comment	The background music for Clock Town's Final Day in The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask is somewhat similar to, if a bit more frantic than, the music that plays during the First Day. Until you turn up the bass, that is, and can hear the creepy, dooming countermelody that is supplementing the happy normal music.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_bec7dd6a	comment	The Mousetrap uses 'Three Blind Mice', variously sung, written, and played on a piano. The "blind mice" reference the motive for murder: three children abused to the point of death (one was killed) by their foster mother, a farmer's wife.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_bf0710c5	comment	In Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, the mermaids' version of "My Jolly Sailor Bold" is particularly creepy due to the monotone way it's sung, and what almost happens next...
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_bff01809	comment	The Warhammer novel Hammers of Ulric features a genuinely creepy fictional children's rhyme:
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_c03c2b44	comment	"Hoist the Colors" is first sung in Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End by a young boy and his fellow probably-not-all pirates on their way to the gallows.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_c23658de	comment	Silent Night, Deadly Night, being about an Ax-Crazy Bad Santa 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":
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_c4282b71	comment	The My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic Dark Fic "Pattycakes 2" has in the "bad" ending sung from Fluttershy to a permanently regressed Rainbow Dash and Scootaloo. Try singing it to the tune of Want You Gone from Portal 2. Here is the last verse.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: When the Fourth Doctor has just regenerated from the Third in "Robot", he is in a temporary state of madness and has no idea who he is, but his physical processes are in overdrive. When the doctor (indefinite article) tells him that he's in no state to leave as he keeps babbling nonsense and has literally just come Back from the Dead, he attempts to demonstrate his health by grabbing a skipping rope and forcing the doctor to skip with him while chanting a disturbingly appropriate rhyme. The combination of his cheery Manchild behaviour, the morbid content of the rhyme and the disturbed and horrified reactions of the other UNIT members who haven't even stated mourning the dead Third Doctor, let alone become open to him being replaced by a whole different person, is deliberate Mood Whiplash — it's hilarious Nightmare Fuel and pretty much sums up what his era on the show is going to be like: Subverted in "The Empty Child", in which a girl uses "Rock-a-Bye-Baby" to actually put a Creepy Child to sleep. Other examples include the use of "There's a Doctor at the gate" to represent a Creepy Child in "Remembrance of the Daleks", and a soon-to-be-Creepy Child in "Human Nature". The unidentified Creepy Child from "The Beast Below": Used once again in "Night Terrors", in which a child is plagued by all his nightmares, including freakish dolls. A creepy tune serves as the soundtrack for much of the episode, and the last lines of the episode are freakish children singing this: The same nursery rhyme is reprised in "Closing Time", but with new verses: It's also reprised again in the prequel for "The Wedding of River Song": And yet again in the episode itself. "The God Complex" uses a real-life nursery rhyme ("Oranges and Lemons") which goes like this: "The Time of the Doctor" has another: A Gallifreyan nursery rhyme is used several times in "Listen":
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_c4a22754	comment	In Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series, Noah's version of "Hush Little Baby" goes as such:
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_c61253f6	comment	Get Out (2017) does something similar to what A Clockwork Orange did to "Singin' in the Rain" by repurposing "Run Rabbit Run", a light-hearted song originally written for a comedy revue but rewritten to have Take Thats to the Nazis in 1939. The song's World War II association ties into some of the Armitage family's backstory.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_c6da3ce2	comment	The Crow: City of Angels: A drug dealer precedes shooting a small child with "Hush little baby, don't you cry, Kali's going to give you eternal life." Later in the movie, when the Crow breaks Kali's back, he gives this line: "Hush little baby, shh, don't say a word. Daddy's gonna buy you a big black bird!" — just as he throws out of a window.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_c720f71e	comment	In what could be described as an inversion of this, you can find lullaby versions of some pretty dark songs on YouTube or through the Rockabye Baby! albums (which compile lullaby versions of a single artist's songs). They have no lyrics, but that doesn't make them any less creepy. Some of them include Panic! at the Disco's "I Write Sins, Not Tragedies", System of a Down's "Chop Suey", and Imagine Dragons' "Radioactive".
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_c840f1c7	comment	Elves (2017): Expect to hear a lot of creepy off-key piano/xylophone renditions of classic Christmas songs to help heighten the horror of the film.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_ca08598f	comment	In The Wire, Omar Little is fond of whistling "The Farmer in the Dell" when he robs drug dealers. He even sings it sometimes.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_ca54521c	comment	In Breaking Point, Medusa sings "All Through The Night" to five-year-old Crona while holding him gently to her. Sound like a Pet the Dog moment to you? You are wrong, my friend. This is Crona's worst memory, because it happens while Medusa is drunk on wine (and has made him drink some too), there's countless snakes crawling all over them, and she's rambling on about how she can't love and wants Crona to help her feel as if she can. It scares poor Crona so badly that he forces himself to forget it ever happened. Harmful to Minors, indeed.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_cac1f772	comment	The seventh season finale of CSI includes a serial killer reciting a silly rhyme in a definitively scary manner.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_cad1d3f	comment	In one Bobby's World skit, Bobby's mother sings him to sleep with the Mockingbird Song over Bobby's panic-stricken pleas for her to stop.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_cb28b938	comment	Lullabies are a recurring theme in CharitÃ© at War: What a drunk and depressed Otto bawls out into the nightly streets on his way home from Anni's party is actually one, only Otto inserts new lyrics that refer to his war experience and trauma. At the end of the third episode, Anni sings a sad lullaby to her disabled baby, the lyrics roughly translate to "things we can laugh about carelessly because our own eyes do not see them", marking her Heel Realization regarding her passive support of the Nazi regime and the eugenics programme now that her own daughter is at risk.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_cba3559b	comment	Cillian Crowe in Survival of the Fittest singing 'happy birthday' to himself, while not exactly a nursery rhyme, embodies this trope perfectly. That is, if you consider that he was currently thinking about killing the person he was talking to at the time — insisting on showing him his 'present' (a meat cleaver).
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_ccf875f7	comment	Criminal Minds The UnSub from "Hanley Waters" likes to sing "This Little Light of Mine", as that's what she and her child were singing in the car when he died. In "Run", the UnSub sings "Ring Around the Rosey" in a creepy voice to a young child. To make it creepier, a crayon is also used to act out the song, spinning in circles and carefully laying down. Not only that, but the child is J.J.'s son Henry, the UnSub is inside J.J. and Will's home at the time, and poor Henry doesn't know that the UnSub is a bad guy.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_cd36879	comment	Lordi's "Blood Red Sandman" uses the off-key music box and an eerie nursery rhyme couplet to add to the theme of the song's subject/singer as a sort of bogeyman.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_cd95b8df	comment	Dead Space: You won't see "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" in the same way ever again. It appeared first in one of the trailers for Dead Space, along with flashes of gore and mutilated corpses, not to mention the player being mauled by monsters. In the game itself, if you let the game run without pressing start, it plays through the beginning bumper, pretty much like it is in the trailer. It most prominently appears in one of the later levels in the waiting room of a train station that has been converted into a chapel, filled with lit candles and the corpses of a mass suicide of Unitologists awaiting their reincarnation. It's eerily silent, except for the voice that keeps forever singing — the creepiest part is that you never find the woman who's singing. It can also be heard while riding on an elevator in an earlier level, sounding like it's coming over the radio or the PA, again with no explanation. As many things that Isaac sees on the Ishimura are hallucinations, there's a good chance that it's the Hive Mind imitating the voice of Nicole in Isaac's head. There's also the little tune that plays in the baby lab aboard the Ishimura, which is hard to hear at first if you don't turn up the volume. A trailer for Dead Space 2 gives "Ring Around the Rosie" the same treatment. For the curious, these are the lyrics to the song in the trailer:
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_cdcbdaed	comment	The second Wayside School book has this gruesome pastiche of "London Bridge is Falling Down", sung by Jerkass Kathy:
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_ce245fca	comment	In Duck Soup, newly installed president Firefly lays down the law in a peppy tune:
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_cefd252d	comment	Scarlet Lady: Stormy Weather sings It's Raining, It's Pouring when going to confront Alec over rigging the weather girl contest.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_cf6917ab	comment	American McGee's Alice: Several tracks utilize toy instruments; the "Pale Realm" level music includes the chorus of an old children's song ("My Grandfather's Clock", according to Wikipedia). As if the demonic children with exposed brains weren't scary enough, right? That's pretty understandable, as the lyrics are about this clock stopping when the owner dies. Said toy they used for sampling the chorus went back into production eventually. Thank goodness they both target separate demographics. In the sequel, Alice: Madness Returns, one of the orphans who Dr. Bumby cares for can be found standing with her face to a wall as she sings an excerpt from a nursery rhyme called "The Sandman". What makes it creepy is that later on in the game, you discover that Bumby has been brainwashing the orphans and turning them into prostitutes. How that relates to the rhyme? He's also the Big Bad, and he's responsible for the Infernal Train that's destroying Wonderland.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_cfd91008	comment	In the Eighth Doctor Adventures novel Unnatural History, a Faction Paradox member taunts the Doctor with this parody of a Gallifreyan nursery rhyme:
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_d160ce45	comment	David Near's voice for Suicide Mouse features this little gem near the end of the video, to the tune of "Hush, Little Baby". Sweet dreams (NOTE: Video is age-restricted):
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_d28045f2	comment	It doesn't appear in the actual series, but the ads for Torchwood: Children of Earth use the melody of "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star". To elaborate, the music is played in the background before switching to an eerie silence as all the children stop before... WE... WE... WE. ARE. COMING.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_d30f13f0	comment	Deadman Wonderland features the Lullaby, a sad and disturbing song about a cursed woodpecker. As revealed later, the song acts to calm the Wretched Egg, allowing her to exist as Shiro. When she and Ganta were children, they would often sing the song together while Ganta's mother played the tune and cried.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_d319bcd9	comment	The Night of the Hunter includes a creepy children's skipping song about a hanging, and multiple creepy lullabies. The eponymous Hunter, Serial Killer Harry Powell, is also seen belting out the hymn "Leaning On The Everlasting Arms" to very creepy effect. Rachel later defeats Powell at the end by singing counterpoint to the hymn.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_d31cdea	comment	The Hunger Games introduces the "Hanging Tree" song. Children sing it innocently and make little necklaces of rope to go along with the lyric "wear a necklace of rope with me," but Katniss's mother realizes what they are singing and quickly stops her and her sister from singing it. Ironically, due to the film adaptations, Jennifer Lawrence's rendition of this song reached Top 40 radio stations... with a dubstep backbeat added.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_d461f757	comment	The Battlestar Galactica (2003) episode "Taking a Break from All Your Worries" opens with Baltar and Virtual Six singing one.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_d4c6e9c7	comment	The Blood series makes a frequent use of the music box in its soundtracks.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_d4caf593	comment	The music from Bully has a lot of this.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_d4fdfff4	comment	ER: As Doug tries to rescue a boy trapped in a storm drain, he forces him to sing "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" to keep him from passing out from hypothermia, turning a normally cheerful song into a desperate tool of survival.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_d4fe0152	comment	Oz: Beecher's Madness Mantra in the second season is an especially creepy version of this, considering that he has gone insane by this time.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_d5b774c1	comment	Episode 7 of the anime of Psychic Detective Yakumo opens with the young Miyuki Nanase singing another version of "London Bridge is Falling down" while drawing on the ground with a piece of chalk a girl eating three people, which goes like this:
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_d5c716b4	comment	In Trapt, there is a tune known as 'The Man-Eating Music-Box', which is indeed often accompanied by the cracking of bones and the sound of flesh rended, as the titular music-box devours its latest victim.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_d616724d	comment	League of Legends features one of these as the theme song of the character Thresh, an undead, soul-stealing Torture Technician.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_d6c9c0a4	comment	Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex: The Tachikomas sing a children's song as they're being packed up and sent to the laboratory for formatting and disassembly. They think it's a happy song and tell Batou as much. Problem is, the song is actually "Dona, Dona", a horrific Yiddish song written in 1941, about a calf being taken to slaughter and told to accept his fate without crying.note There are alternative mystical interpretations of this lyric, but given that it was written in 1941, it's pretty clear what it's really about. It was also implied that, to the Tachikomas, death was an exciting adventure that they were looking forward to, especially because to experience death was something reserved for those with ghosts. It can be interpreted as the Tachikomas slinging some guilt on Batou for letting it happen. Just previously Batou had deceived them by pretending that everything was OK, when he knew about their impending fate, and their farewells were rather sharp and subdued compared to their usually cheerful personality. Considering their earlier worries, they weren't eager to die. In one episode, an insane serial killer skins women alive and sells their recorded experiences as snuff films at a flea market, all while humming "Mary Had a Little Lamb".
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_d794a2a2	comment	AKIRA: The movie has the jingling toy bells and squeaking as the killer toys attack.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_d817ed1f	comment	Judas uses this traditional prayer to creepy effect: "Now I lay me down to sleep/I pray the Lord my soul to keep/And if I die before I wake/I pray the Lord my soul to take."
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_d8534d26	comment	Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West:
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_d8811eb6	comment	Captain SNES: The Game Masta uses "Row, Row, Row your Boat" as the iconic tune associated with the Sovereign of Sorrow; the sprites refer to it as being like a funeral dirge about the futility of existence.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_d99024a2	comment	Genesis (Band): The song "The Musical Box" is a ghost story about a dead child whose ghost is summoned by his musical box. About halfway through, it quotes "Old King Cole". The album is called Nursery Cryme. Don't forget the nursery-rhyme bit at the end of the "Guaranteed Eternal Sanctuary Man" segment of "Supper's Ready".
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_d9f59daf	comment	The Green Knowe Chronicles: In The Children of Green Knowe, there's a fictional kids' song about a tree that's possessed by an evil spirit:
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_da75fd61	comment	Not exactly a nursery tune, but definitely ironic; in the first episode of American Gothic (1995), Sheriff Buck whistles the theme tune to The Andy Griffith Show.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_da9706e5	comment	Sugar Bits: After Bo is stabbed in the chest with a candy lance by Licorice, she starts reciting a despair-filled variation of "Mary Had a Little Lamb" over the course of a few pages, starting here, ignoring everything and everyone around her: "Mary had a little lamb... a lamb that she soon lost... And no one tried to find this lamb... not at any cost..."
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_db26eb87	comment	T.U.F.F. Puppy: "Go to sleep, go to sleep, go to sleep or I'll choke you."
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_ddeddf10	comment	In War of the Worlds (2005), Rachel Ferrier sings "Hushabye Mountain" while her father kills the Crazy Survivalist whose actions are putting her in danger.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_dfbb6cc2	comment	Black Christmas (1974) has the deranged 'Billy' singing "Daddy's gone a-huntin" while rocking a chair in which he has placed the corpse of a girl he murdered.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_dfbbbe81	comment	Black Christmas (2006) has Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies play during several suspense scenes. Surprisingly effective.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_e15a3879	comment	Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time has a rather depressing rendition of "Jingle Bells" that plays in Hollijolli Village, a town that was razed during Christmas by the Shroobs.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_e179ec3a	comment	Calvin & Hobbes: The Series: A creepy ghost sings on. Much later, a poltergeist girl sings "Ring Around the Rosey" while skipping around on a wall.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_e21a575	comment	"Mary Mary, Quite Contrary" from Can's "Monster Movie" is a slow-moving Epic Rocking tune based on the traditional nursery rhyme, but gradually gets more melancholic as the melody goes on.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_e293455a	comment	Buffy the Vampire Slayer: "Hush" opens with a rhyme describing the Monster of the Week. When Drusilla is torturing Angel in "What's My Line: Part 2", she sings "Run and catch, run and catch; the lamb is trapped in the blackberry patch". Dru does this in multiple episodes... Subverted in "All the Way", in which an old man who hums "Pop Goes the Weasel" in a creepy fashion while seemingly suggesting he's going to do something horrible for Halloween. He's just making Rice Krispies treats for the kids; it's just set up as to make the viewer think he's creepy before he gets killed by the vampires.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_e2acadf9	comment	DC Showcase â€“ Batman: Death in the Family has another instance of this in the path in which Jason confronts the Joker as the Red Hood if the viewer chooses to spare the Joker. Here, the Joker recites a version of "Humpty Dumpty" to mock the deterioration of Jason's sanity after Jason had learned that he had violated Batman's no-kill policy and repressed his memories of doing so, resulting in the Bat-Family shunning him in spite of ultimately not going through with killing the Joker as Batman asked him to on his deathbed.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_e3125095	comment	Ghost from the Machine has the ghost of a psychopathic daycare worker who killed a child, his mother, and then himself sing "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" to the protagonist's little brother.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_e3386114	comment	There Was a Little Girl: The score by Riz Ortolani incorporates melodies from various nursery rhymes, tying in to the film's themes of childhood trauma and the juxtaposition of innocence and evil. In addition, Father James sings "Old King Cole" while stalking the landlady Amantha.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_e3ad7328	comment	"The Old Dope Peddler", a parody of gentle music-box style songs about innocent neighborhood figures, from Songs by Tom Lehrer.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_e46a501d	comment	The Crooked Man: The game is based around the children's song of the same name. Towards the end of the game, a little boy sings his own improvised addition to the song, about the hero's descent into self-loathing:
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_e4d1ce93	comment	Margery Daw from Shakugan no Shana was also named after one of these; in fact, her spells use rather obscure and creepy ones as incantations.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_e5d9175c	comment	The theme "Hashizoroe" from Kuon. Hashizoroe is a ceremony in which a child is fed with chopsticks for the first time. It doesn't help that it is sung by a pair of Creepy Twins.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_e64b0d38	comment	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.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_e66220af	comment	Despite being an unbelievably creepy film, Pan's Labyrinth manages to mostly invert this, as the lullaby hummed by Mercedes is mostly used to genuinely comforting effect, as well as being a meditation on how sad everything is.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_e694aadb	comment	The Ciaphas Cain novel Death or Glory has the gem "The tracks on the land raider crush the heretic". ref a.k.a. "The Wheels on the Bus Go Round and Round" This presumably isn't very ironic for the setting, but it certainly comes across as such to readers.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_e7e37776	comment	The Firefly episode "Serenity" has River rocking back and forth, repeating "Two by two, hands of blue". We don't find out until several episodes later what it means. Not a traditional nursery rhyme, but it definitely counts — the Hands of Blue are sadistic baddies.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_e93b2f62	comment	In The Fly (1986), a doomed Seth Brundle sings "I know an old lady who swallowed a fly... perhaps she'll die".
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_eb095079	comment	In episode 304 of Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse, we have an army of half-naked Sam Clones singing songs to an infant elder god. The lyrics are Black Speech, but the tunes are nursery songs like "Pop Goes the Weasel".
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_eb2a8f44	comment	Ash vs. Evil Dead reveals that the residents of Ash's hometown, believing him to be a crazed serial killer after the cabin incident, wrote one about his perceived misdeeds.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_ec02633a	comment	The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt's cinematic trailer, "A Night to Remember", features an eerie nursery song that seems to be aimed at vampire children. The first DLC has a nursery song about Gunter O'Dimm.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_ec28245c	comment	The voiced-over Dragon Ball Z short Gohan's a BLUEY Fan? by MasakoX has Super-Saiyan 2 Gohan singing his own rendition of "Poor Little Bug on a Wall" from Bluey as he marches towards Cell, while the villain is begging him not to get closer as Gohan sings how there's "no one to clean up the mess."
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_ef1b1670	comment	In Absolute Beginners, hooligan Ed the Ted sings "The Teddy Bear Picnic" in a menacing tone on his way to a rumble.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_f1121a29	comment	Pretty Pink Ponytails from Angel of Death sings a short rhyming song about how much she loves killing people.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_f14260fb	comment	In Hard Being Pure, Snatch, the villain specializing in theft, comes check on Noa while she's confined to her magic circle and finds her signing "Who killed Cock Robin", ending with the Sparrow in the song being hung like a thief.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_f1938c51	comment	More Information Than You Require parodies the legends about "Ring-Around-the-Rosie" by providing a series of nursery rhymes that are unsubtly describing horrific events, such as "Ring-Around-the-Rosie" verses that are about the Bubonic Plague and other rhymes about the 1918 influenza epidemic, the Jonestown mass suicide (referencing the Kool-Aid Man), and the Teapot Dome Scandal (though the historical Teapot Dome Scandal didn't involve an undead President Harding devouring children's bones).
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_f38b71c2	comment	You won't see "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" in the same way ever again. It appeared first in one of the trailers for Dead Space, along with flashes of gore and mutilated corpses, not to mention the player being mauled by monsters. In the game itself, if you let the game run without pressing start, it plays through the beginning bumper, pretty much like it is in the trailer. It most prominently appears in one of the later levels in the waiting room of a train station that has been converted into a chapel, filled with lit candles and the corpses of a mass suicide of Unitologists awaiting their reincarnation. It's eerily silent, except for the voice that keeps forever singing — the creepiest part is that you never find the woman who's singing. It can also be heard while riding on an elevator in an earlier level, sounding like it's coming over the radio or the PA, again with no explanation. As many things that Isaac sees on the Ishimura are hallucinations, there's a good chance that it's the Hive Mind imitating the voice of Nicole in Isaac's head.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_f38b71c3	comment	A trailer for Dead Space 2 gives "Ring Around the Rosie" the same treatment. For the curious, these are the lyrics to the song in the trailer:
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_f399b68e	comment	In Not a Villain, Bloody Mary recites twisted versions of nursery rhymes before attacking. She also slips nursery rhyme references of varying subtlety into her regular conversations whenever the opportunity presents itself.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_f40b9420	comment	Teen Power Inc.: At the end of Danger in Rhyme, local kids take up singing the song â€œThis Old Manâ€� near the site of one of the Nick Nack Bomberâ€™s bombings, which were modeled after the rhymes in that song.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_f64ceaf2	comment	In the creepypasta Mommy Sleeps in the Basement, Paisley has written a rhyming poem titled "My Family" and reads it aloud in class. The content of the poem quickly goes from uncomfortable, to disturbing, to downright horrifying, especially concerning the last few lines.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_f6c25e1b	comment	In Benjamin Britten's operatic version of The Turn of the Screw, the children are singing "Lavender's Blue," while the adults look on, unmoved by this show of innocence ("It is all a wicked lie"). This is mostly foreshadowing, as the plot hasn't gotten too creepy yet.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_f6e5bd7f	comment	Repo! The Genetic Opera: A couple of songs evoke this feel through clever use of repetition and call-and-response, especially "Zydrate Anatomy". As the creator describes it, "Gather 'round, kids! We're gonna teach you how to shoot up!" There's also the song in which Pavi and Luigi prance around the Opera stage, singing about how Shilo's mother died.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_f6eed39	comment	The Sopranos: The episode "Denial, Anger, Acceptance" has Chris being abducted and mock-executed by Russians while Meadow sings "All Through the Night" in the school choir.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_f71bd049	comment	In Hotel Rwanda, children singing is a sign of temporary respite and peace. However, Western viewers tend to find it extremely disturbing. It doesn't help that in every other scene of the movie, there really is creepy, disturbing stuff going on — after all, it's about the Rwandan genocide.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_f75641ab	comment	In Sabotage (1936), after Mrs. Verloc's little brother Stevie is killed by a bomb planted by her husband, she wanders into the movie theater she and her husband run. A cartoon version of Who Killed Cock Robin? is playing, complete with song.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_f8705c18	comment	Hellsing courts this trope in the episode with the two vampire serial killers when there were scenes of the aftermath of a horrific, gruesome murder of a family is shown with a happy television show tune is playing in the background.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_f97683ef	comment	In Hollow Knight, No Eyes, the Warrior Dream boss fought in the Stone Sanctuary, sings an incredibly creepy Latin-sounding lullaby in place of the usual Dream Boss Battle music. Myla's increasingly disjointed singing as she is overtaken by The Corruption also qualifies.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_fa13535c	comment	Christie uses a lot of titles like this: Hickory Dickory Dock, A Pocket Full of Rye, Five Little Pigs, One, Two, Buckle My Shoe, and Three Blind Mice (the story on which the play The Mousetrap is based). There's even a Lampshade Hanging in one book where Poirot chides himself for thinking about nursery rhymes so much. The Mousetrap also has a lampshade hanging, where one character likes to recite the creepy nursery rhyme of the title and another, noting the lyrics, wonders why children like to say such horrible things.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_fb27829b	comment	Fantastic Mr. Fox: "Boggis, Bunce, and Bean: one fat, one short, one lean..." This is only a partial example of this trope as the song is actually sung by schoolchildren and is not used ironically. Mr. Badger even invokes it in order to dissuade Mr. Fox from buying a house next to said farmers.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_fbc58609	comment	The Nightmare Before Christmas features the three musicians (one of whom is Greg Proops) playing an off-key, really creepy version of "Jingle Bells." However, since this is Halloween Town, where everything is supposed to be scary and creepy, Jack Skellington congratulates them instead of sending them off. Later, they give the same treatment to "Here Comes Santa Claus".
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_fbf189a	comment	Miracle Musical's "The Mind Electric" is an unsettling Sanity Slippage Song which at one point references Jack and the Beanstalk.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_fbf4ce43	comment	In Batman: Under the Red Hood, the Joker sings a creepy version of "I'm a Little Teapot" while pouring gasoline on Black Mask, his secretary, and Red Hood/Jason Todd's gang (many of whom used to work for Black Mask) in the truck they're bound and gagged in.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_fc439a61	comment	In the second Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth game, Gyakuten Kenji 2, the victim of "The Stolen Turnabout" is Tsubasa Kagome, a member of the Prosecutorial Investigation Committee who was privately investigating the death of her boyfriend, a photojournalist called Ryuji Kamei that happened some years previous to the event of the game. Both names make reference to the Japanese children's game Kagome Kagome (see the Inuyasha example under Anime & Manga, as well as the Terranigma example above). To elaborate: "Tsubasa" means "wings" and her full name comes from the phrase "kago no naka no tori" (bird in a cage) and Ryuji's surname comes from "kame" (turtle). The song also serves as foreshadowing about the identity of the real culprit: the last part of the song reads "The crane and turtle slipped/Who is behind you now?" The answer? Bansai Ichiyanagi, the man responsible for both deaths..
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_fc7d85d3	comment	A scene in Ice Age: The Meltdown has the main characters encounter some vultures who start singing "Food, Glorious Food" from Oliver!. It's more silly than creepy.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_fcacaa36	comment	A somber (slightly accented) rendition of Edelweiss is the opening theme song for The Man in the High Castle, in which a Fallen States of America has succumbed to a joint Nazi-Imperial Japanese occupation.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_fcfec4b6	comment	Noir: The first thirty-odd seconds of Melodie are of the music box variety. The song then swells into a more rock-ish theme with the music box chimes heard heavily in the background. Chloe's theme, Secret Game is of the rhyme variant.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_fd74a791	comment	A mid-Gallifreyan nursery rhyme from the Doctor Who New Adventures novel Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible:
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_fd8221d2	comment	Several tracks utilize toy instruments; the "Pale Realm" level music includes the chorus of an old children's song ("My Grandfather's Clock", according to Wikipedia). As if the demonic children with exposed brains weren't scary enough, right? That's pretty understandable, as the lyrics are about this clock stopping when the owner dies. Said toy they used for sampling the chorus went back into production eventually. Thank goodness they both target separate demographics.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_fe5f9efb	comment	The Quatermass Conclusion features a children's nursery rhyme containing seemingly innocent lyrics that indicate that the terrible inexplicable events occurring in the film have happened before.
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_fe724d7f	comment	Rammstein: Ramstein has the song "Spieluhr" ("Music Box"), which is about a child who gets buried alive. The chorus includes Richard Kruspe's daughter singing a ghastly variant of the German nursery rhyme "Hoppe, Hoppe Reiter" (which is in parts somewhat creepy even in its normal form) through a vocoder. Let's not forget "Hilf Mir", and its original inspiration: "Die gar traurige Geschichte mit dem Feuerzeug". Refined scariness, and in a child's story book, too...
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_fec91a1d	comment	In The Rescuers Down Under, Percival McLeach's version of "Home on the Range" counts:
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_ff2165b	comment	In one episode of Cold Case, the killer repetitively listens to John Denver's "Sunshine on My Shoulders".
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_ff9ab17f	comment	A mild example, but Star Trek: The Next Generation uses "When the Bough Breaks" as the title of an episode about a race who have lost the ability to have children and resort to stealing the Enterprise crew's.
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