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Music for Courage
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A group of people are going through a horrible time and they are about to let go of all hope and give in to panic or worse: They could be so deprived that they're losing their humanity. But then someone starts to sing or play an instrument, a song that rises above the sounds of suffering and fear. And everyone raises their heads to listen, momentarily forgetting their suffering, remembering that there's more to life than this, that all hope is not lost, and that they're not animals. This can save the people from falling past the Despair Event Horizon and sometimes even the Moral Event Horizon in cases where the populace has started to turn primal, which may even put the musician's life in danger while he or she performs. The musician is the hero of this trope and is very much admired by his or her unfortunate public. The song played will usually be Awesome Music, or appropriate in some other manner. The moment will usually be a prime contender for the musician's Moment of Awesome. It's not uncommon for it to be or be accompanied by a Tear Jerker. This is pretty much what the Glamorous Wartime Singer exists for. Compare Survival Mantra, a related trope where words are used to shore up personal courage. Compare Pep-Talk Song and "Gaining Confidence" Song. Contrast Fear Song, when someone sings about the things they're afraid of, and Theme Music Power-Up, where a song accompanies a specific person or group getting more powerful or doing something awesome but it is typically for the benefit of the audience. Also, Music Magic which is when music is used to invoke magical effects (which can include +1 courage style buffs). Often overlaps with Everything's Louder with Bagpipes in a military context, especially where the British army is concerned. |
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In The Alamo, the Mexican army would always play a fanfare called "Degüello" (Slit Throat) before they started their bombardment. Hours before the last stand Davey Crockett steps up the rafters and plays in harmony with them on his fiddle to boost morale. subverted in that Santa Anna's army was playing Pavlov with the fanfare so they could sneak in under the cover of night to raid them. | |
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Jackboots on Whitehall. Daisy sings the hymn Jerusalem, and everyone joins in as an army of evil Nazi marionettes advance towards their Last Stand. | |
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This is a major plot point in 20th Century Boys, where the protagonist, Kenji, plays his song, which inspires many people of the now Crapsack World to rise up and rebel against the Big Bad, Friend. | |
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Sound of the Sky opens with an Amazing Freaking Grace performance by a stranger rallying a lost little girl, who grows up to become an unlikely heroine. | |
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Subverted with "Tubthumping" by Chumbawamba. It seems like an inspiring and motivational song, with its chorus being "I get knocked down / But I get up again / You're never gonna keep me down". However, the song is actually about a politician that jumps on a bandwagon. | |
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In The Honor of the Queen, Honor Harrington has one of her favourite classical pieces (Hammerwell's Salute to Spring) played while her ship, the HMS Fearless, is preparing to engage Thunder of God, a vastly more powerful vessel. The Fearless was already damaged, and even undamaged it was no match for the larger and more powerful Thunder, but Honor was determined not to let the battlecruiser past her to massacre the planet she was protecting. | |
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In Symphogear, the heroine's best friends suggests singing the school's anthem both for getting across their support to the heroine and to rally the desperate school mates. | |
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The Simpsons: Parodied in an episode where many of the Springfield citizens were in a sinking ship and Comic Book Guy volunteers to help rescue the passagers, but says all he needs is some inspirational music to get him started so he take a radio and plays it, only for it to play Alone again, naturally. Played straight in the episode "Bart's Comet," where Ned Flanders walks onto a hilltop, faces the incoming fiery meteor, and sings "Que Será Será." He is soon joined by the rest of the townsfolk, who have worked up the courage to face death singing. And then subverted right at the end when the comet is making its final approach: everyone stops singing and starts running around in a panic until the comet breaks apart and falls harmlessly to Earth as a softball-sized rock. |
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One episode of Doraleous & Associates had the newly promoted General Leslie break down while trying to exhort his soldiers. He sings a lullabye, which the men take up, and terrify the invading army into retreat-only a madman would sing a war lullabye. | |
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The scene in The Shawshank Redemption in which Andy DuFresne plays an opera record over the prison's PA system fits this description. | |
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In the end of the first act of Dragon Age: Inquisition, the Elder One attacks Haven head-on just as the Inquisition is celebrating the closing of the Breach. Despite a valiant defense, the organization takes heavy losses, and the Player Character almost dies to bury the bulk of the Elder One's army under a landslide—along with Haven itself. The Haven evacuees and Inquisition survivors regroup in the freezing mountains, with no supplies or any idea where to go now. And so Mother Giselle begins to sing "The Dawn Will Come", then Leliana joins her, then pretty much everyone at the scene... cue Solas approaching the Inquisitor about the location of a secret mountain fortress that will be the Inquisition HQ for the rest of the game. | |
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Done to a villainous end in Disney's Beauty and the Beast. Gaston whips the villagers into a frenzy and leads "The Mob Song" on a hunt to kill the Beast. | |
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Gap Year Adventures by A.A. Pessimal sees Mariella Smith-Rhodes trying to psych up an ill-assorted group of kibbutzim in Cenotia to face and fight off an expected Klatchian attack. Everything she says meets a lukewarm argumentative reception, until, more in exasperation than expectation, she starts talking about her own people, the Boers of Rimwards Howondaland and what they had to do to establish a nation. Then merely quoting a patriotic anthem about the Boor War isn't enough. She sings it at them. It stills the room. Several verses later, a couple of hundred people are ready to invade Klatch. | |
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Small Soldiers has a deconstructed/Played for Laughs version, where the Commandos use music ("If you wanna be my Lover") as part of psychological warfare to boost themselves. | |
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The Enemy Below. During a series of depth charge attacks, the U-Boat captain plays music (an 18th century march called "Der Dessauer Marsch") over the ship's PA system and has the crew sing along to boost morale. The destroyer escort captain orders another depth charge attack. | |
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In The Wiz, Dorothy sings "Be a Lion" to help the Cowardly Lion overcome his fearfulness. The 2015 made-for-NBC adaptation also has Dorothy and her friends overcome their nervousness about hunting Evillene by singing "We Got It", a song added especially for this production, and proclaiming that The Power of Friendship can help them complete the task and get their desires granted. | |
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Tolkien's Legendarium: The Lord of the Rings has this at what is probably its darkest moment, with Frodo locked in the tower of Cirith Ungol and Sam being unable to find him. Sam sits on the steps, in the dark, and sings (Frodo hears the song and calls out, and that's how Sam finds Frodo): Beren and Lúthien: Beren, who remains imprisoned in Sauron's dungeons and has just seen his friend Finrod dying, sings a song of war, hope and defiance to try to overcome his despair. Lúthien, who has just reached the tower, hears his voice and sings a power song which makes the whole fortress tremble and shake. |
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The Order of the Stick's Elan tries as best he can. Justified, as it is a real bard ability in Dungeons & Dragons. Though most of the time Elan only manages to piss the other party members off with this, at one point he does really good. | |
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In Doctor Whooves Adventures Goodnight uses a song to give herself the strength to overcome the Emotion Eater that's trying to feed off her despair. | |
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In Rusty and Co., Roxanne. To the complaints of her companions. | |
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In Macross Frontier: The Vajra have infiltrated and overrun the civilian "islands" of the Frontier fleet, and the populace, wounded and scared and huddled in shelters, can only cry out for Ranka to assist them. But Ranka is in the midst of a horrible crisis, and the SMS squadron is pinned in the ducts as they try to get to their Valkyries. Among the despair and tragedy, Sheryl Nome stands, even though nobody even recognizes her as the "Galactic Fairy" anymore, and she breaks into the song "Diamond Crevasse". The refugees slowly realize she's singing to them, and their panic subsides to be replaced by peaceful, if mournful, hope. It is from this moment on that Sheryl's music, which used to be high-energy, consumer-friendly rock, assumes a heartfelt indie style, bereft of the bombastic effects or budget of her previous productions. For their part, the people of Frontier embrace her deeper and tighter than ever before. | |
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The Macross meta-series exemplifies this trope to the nth degree: This is a major plot point in Macross 7. When people have their Spiritia drained, they become apathetic and unresponsive. The fix: listening to music from Nekki Basara. Later on, the Big Bad intends to use this effect to literally farm Spiritia to prevent the end of the universe. To Basara, this is only a secondary effect to having people to LISTEN TO HIS SONG. In Macross Frontier: The Vajra have infiltrated and overrun the civilian "islands" of the Frontier fleet, and the populace, wounded and scared and huddled in shelters, can only cry out for Ranka to assist them. But Ranka is in the midst of a horrible crisis, and the SMS squadron is pinned in the ducts as they try to get to their Valkyries. Among the despair and tragedy, Sheryl Nome stands, even though nobody even recognizes her as the "Galactic Fairy" anymore, and she breaks into the song "Diamond Crevasse". The refugees slowly realize she's singing to them, and their panic subsides to be replaced by peaceful, if mournful, hope. It is from this moment on that Sheryl's music, which used to be high-energy, consumer-friendly rock, assumes a heartfelt indie style, bereft of the bombastic effects or budget of her previous productions. For their part, the people of Frontier embrace her deeper and tighter than ever before. In Macross Delta, this is part of Walkure's job description; their singing is the only thing that can counter Var Syndrome, and as such, a Walkure performance is the one thing that can reliably prevent people from panicking in the middle of a Var outbreak. |
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This is ideally what Bards from Dungeons & Dragons bring to the party. Their music provides Inspiration to their allies which increases their saving throws, attack roles etc. and turns the tide of battle in their favor. | |
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At the end of the first season of Corrector Yui, Haruna invokes the trope by singing to Yui in the Real World when she's about to lose her Magic Music-laced fight against the Big Bad Grosser in the Net. Upon hearing Haruna's voice, Yui recovers her spirit and starts fighting again, ultimately winning. | |
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Explicitly invoked in "When the Foeman Bares His Steel" from The Pirates of Penzance, a "we who are about to die would on the whole prefer not to" song by the policemen to bolster their courage before going to arrest the pirates. Interspersed with Mabel and the girls' Go, Ye Heroes, Go and Die lyricsnote literally, as this song is the Trope Namer, which really doesn't help the policemen's state of mind, though they're too polite to complain (very loudly) about it. | |
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In Fushigi Yuugi: Genbu Kaiden, a mix of this and Theme Music Power-Up turns out to be the schtick of Urumiya Hagas when he officially joins the Genbu Senshi. His vocal powers serves mainly as the power-up support to the six Celestial Warriors, along with some warm spiritual healing towards the people of Hokkan. | |
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Journey's 'Don't Stop Believing' performed this role in Manchester Lost. Sung by Archangels. To inspire people to beat Satan. | |
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Parodied and subverted in South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut—the song "La Resistance" inspires everyone except Stan, Kyle, and Cartman (the three being tasked to what is effectively a suicide mission) since the lyrics turn into Go, Ye Heroes, Go and Die. | |
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The Lord of the Rings has this at what is probably its darkest moment, with Frodo locked in the tower of Cirith Ungol and Sam being unable to find him. Sam sits on the steps, in the dark, and sings (Frodo hears the song and calls out, and that's how Sam finds Frodo): | |
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Ace from Final Fantasy Type-0 sings the first two lines of "Zero" in the normal ending for class zero minus Machina and Rem to comfort them after they start crying from realizing they'll face their deaths soon. | |
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In Final Fantasy X-2, the world is more or less on the brink of civil war- not because its factions want to fight each other, but because rumors and PTSD from Sin's attacks have convinced them that the other guys do. So the Big Good who everyone trusts invites them all to a free concert. It turns out that it's hard to attack someone when just minutes ago you were enjoying music with them. | |
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The Panzerlied in Battle of the Bulge. | |
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A variation in Rome. Marc Antony mentions to Julius Caesar how calm he looks even though he's marching on Rome "as a blood-stained conqueror". Caesar responds, "I'm glad I appear so." Because he realises his legionnaires are feeling just as nervous, and to make their advance seem less threatening to the populace, Caesar orders the buccinators to play something more cheerful. | |
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The group of townspeople singing The Star-Spangled Banner as the Soviet troops prepare to shoot them in Red Dawn. If not this, it shows great courage *through* music. | |
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World War Z justifies this trope. When it became clear that waiting out in the human encampments would not work, the nations of the world launched a counterattack in which the elimination of the undead was the ultimate goal. Groups of soldiers with large reserves of ammo and supplies would play music in order to attract zombies that they would systematically kill. The genius of it? The music also helped with morale. Nations played music that worked and also reflected their cultures, such as bag pipe music for the British and Iron Maiden for the Americans. (The latter was likely done due to the author's status as a huge Iron Maiden fan.) | |
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Pretty much the entire point of the Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan games and its American counterpart Elite Beat Agents, especially in the final stages. | |
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In The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, when the hurricane is approaching Mahagonny, Jim tells the people it is time to do away with prohibitions, and starts by leading them in singing a song. A Kangaroo Court later sentences Jim to ten years in prison for singing prohibited songs, his second worst and most popular offense. | |
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Trolls: When the Trolls are facing their Darkest Hour, even the perpetually cheerful Poppy has nothing positive to say. Then Branch, who has spent much of the movie adamantly refusing to sing or participate in the Trolls' frivolity, breaks out a tender rendition of Cyndi Lauper's "True Colors", which turns into a duet with Poppy and restores the spirit of all the Trolls (including himself). | |
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Les Misérables basically alternates between this and Tear Jerker. In particular, "Red and Black" and "Do You Hear the People Sing" get the revolutionaries psyched up for fighting, and "Drink With Me" keeps their spirits up when the battle isn't going so well. When Act I closes with "One Day More", even the audience is ready to go out and bust some heads. | |
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In Macross Delta, this is part of Walkure's job description; their singing is the only thing that can counter Var Syndrome, and as such, a Walkure performance is the one thing that can reliably prevent people from panicking in the middle of a Var outbreak. | |
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One Piece has Brook inspire a village of satanists, who have been attacked by members of another tribe. Playing a Badass tune on his violin, they rally to fight off their invaders. | |
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Double-use in First And Only. The Jantine Patricians have a number of battle-hymns that they use to rally their forces before combat. The Ghosts, in contrast, use bagpipe music - not only does it help their troops' resolve, everybody else finds it extremely creepy and unnerving. | |
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James May's Man Lab addresses this trope during the Face Your Fears segment in the supposedly haunted Lympne Castle, noting the points addressed in Real Life section. James chooses Wings' "Mull of Kintyre" to sing; appropriately, Wings once recorded an album in that exact castle. | |
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The Soviet National Anthem, in The Hunt for Red October. | |
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In one of the manga re-tellings of Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War, Sylvia basically becomes a dancing version of Sheryl Nome when she decides to dance for a bunch of Silessa villagers during a tense Hostage Situation involving Prince Lewyn so they won't lose their hope, while being perfectly aware that the present army can fatally shut her up at any moment. Her courageous actions also give Claud and Ferry enough time to rescue the kidnapped Lewyn. | |
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Although it starts out more as a sentimental piece, Captain Von Trapp's rendition of Edelweiss in The Sound of Music becomes this after he chokes up with emotion, and Maria leads the crowd to finish it with her before the Von Trapp family escapes to Switzerland. | |
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7 Seeds has this occur in the Ryugu Shelter arc. The inhabitants of the shelter become agitated and begin to despair when they learn that meteorites crashed onto earth and see its results themselves; then Maria heads onto stage and sings a song to calm everyone down. Maria continues to sing and gives concerts, which helps keep everyone's spirits up, even when life in the shelter goes down the drain. Unfortunately, this turns out to be a double-edge sword, as Maria's concerts gave the parasites within her a great chance to infect everyone in the shelter and ultimately leads to everyone's deaths. | |
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Horatio Hornblower: Horatio stages a hornpipe dance competition on his ship, while they are sailing in pursuit of a much larger, and better armed, ship in Beat to Quarters. | |
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Men of Harlech from Zulu probably counts as an Invoked Trope. | |
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Beren and Lúthien: Beren, who remains imprisoned in Sauron's dungeons and has just seen his friend Finrod dying, sings a song of war, hope and defiance to try to overcome his despair. Lúthien, who has just reached the tower, hears his voice and sings a power song which makes the whole fortress tremble and shake. | |
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In Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch, this trope is how Lucia and the 5 other princesses give 7th princess Sara a reason to sing with them so they can defeat Gakto/Gaito. done again in the Pure season towards Villan Mikeru by singing to give him hope.(with the song Kibou no Kaneoto - love goes on). | |
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In Warhammer 40,000 there are characters that can inspire nearby troops and/or themselves chanting hymns with effects that depend on the army such as ignoring lethal wounds, refusing to flee or making them redouble their efforts in combat. | |
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At the end of the first season of Gunslinger Girl, Henrietta is depressed because her handler hasn't come to watch the meteor shower with them. Triela picks her up in her arms and leads the girls in a rousing chorus of "Ode to Joy" sung in German. | |
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Doctor Who. In "Cold War" a Soviet scientist suggests the Doctor's companion fulfill this trope by singing Hungry Like the Wolf, but she refuses. | |
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Child of the Storm has Doctor Strange indulge in the In-Universe Soundtrack on multiple occasions, but the clearest examples are in Unfinished Business when he responds to the Arc Villain's grand apocalyptic scheme by turning the bedrock of New Orleans into a giant amp and rallying the heroes with We Will Rock You and the Shrek 2 cover of Holding Out For A Hero. He then takes it planetary, to counter the Arc Villain's spells. It also performs the vital function of annoying the shit out of said Arc Villain. | |
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Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny: Lacus sings her song Fields of Hope for the children she takes care of during the Break The World catastrophe early in the series. Meer Campbell, as Lacus's Body Double, sings the same song during a rally that takes place a few days after Break The World itself. She first gives the people reunited there a Rousing Speech about how violent retaliation will not be useful, then sings to them to soothe their pain. |
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This is a major plot point in Macross 7. When people have their Spiritia drained, they become apathetic and unresponsive. The fix: listening to music from Nekki Basara. Later on, the Big Bad intends to use this effect to literally farm Spiritia to prevent the end of the universe. To Basara, this is only a secondary effect to having people to LISTEN TO HIS SONG. | |
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Subverted in Richard Wagner's The Flying Dutchman. The Dutchman's ghost crew begins a wailing lament that saps the courage of the Norwegian sailors. The Norwegians fight back with a drinking song to keep their spirits up. But the orchestra sides with the ghosts, and the sailors lose heart after all. (It's strongly reminiscent of the Casablanca scene noted above, except the good guys lose.) | |
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In a classic scene from Casablanca, a Nazi officer starts a singalong of "Die Wacht am Rhein," and Victor (a leader of the French Resistance who is, ostensibly, undercover) orders the band to play the French national anthem, "La Marseillaise." Rick goes along with Victor's order, the first sign of his change of heart. Part of the reason that scene is so powerful is that many of the extras were actual European refugees who had come to California. When you see Yvonne crying during the song? She was a French refugee, hearing her country's anthem for the first time in years. Not just Yvonne — but the actress, Madeleine Lebeau. |
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This is the climactic event of How the Grinch Stole Christmas!. (As well as the Simpsons episode where the power plant goes on strike, which parodies it.) | |
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In The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1, the resistance in District 5 sing "The Hanging Tree" before beginning their attack. As it's a guaranteed Suicide Mission that begins with them charging unarmed into gunfire and ends with the flood taking out anyone who might have escaped, it was necessary. | |
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In Grey Knights, a Warhammer 40,000 novel, a Sororitas begins to sing Ave Imperator (the 40k equivalent of Amazing Freaking Grace) just before a battle. The entire convent takes up the song, and they are still singing as the Grey Knights attack (misunderstanding, as a rogue inquisitor set them up). It should be noted the song is a standard chant of the Ecclesiarchy shock troops, and in context is really closer to an ecclesiastical 'jody call'- a morale raising hymn as opposed to impromptu singing. In the same book, the Balurian Heavy Infantry attempt a last mad charge against the Adepta Sororitas holding the Tomb of the Saint Kelkannis Evisser, as a result of a rogue Inquisitor spreading misinformation and, while doing so break into a popular boys marching song from Balur- Given that they are all running to madness, betrayal and certain death, it is really rather touching Double-use in First And Only. The Jantine Patricians have a number of battle-hymns that they use to rally their forces before combat. The Ghosts, in contrast, use bagpipe music - not only does it help their troops' resolve, everybody else finds it extremely creepy and unnerving. |
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In Sweet Charity, Charity and Oscar sing "I'm The Bravest Individual" when they're trapped in an elevator together. It doesn't do much for them. | |
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Similarly, Guido plays an opera record for the inmates of the death camp in Life Is Beautiful. | |
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