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One-Woman Wail
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For the proper reading experience, play the music from this video while reading on. It's not Ominous Latin Chanting, it's not the Cherubic Choir, but somewhere in between, close to the Ethereal Choir. A solitary, usually wordless wail (possibly to simulate wind or grieving), usually done by either a woman or, for extra poignancy points, a child (usually a boy soprano). The best time to include this trope is during the aftermath of something really dramatic — a battle, natural disaster, etc. Basically, any event where vanilla OLC would just fall short in the sadness department. Often fills out a Moment of Silence. Kin to the Lonely Piano Piece. This is also what can come to mind when you hear the word "Opera". You get extra extra poignancy points for cutting out all sound during the epic event, go into Slow Motion, and having the One Woman Wail play over it. Note that this is explicitly part of the soundtrack, though a Diegetic Switch is allowed. If you're looking for a single character, male or female, screaming in anguish, try Skyward Scream or perhaps Screaming Woman. Clean-up note: Wordless singing that isn't the otherworldly, often anguished, and even startling wail is not this trope, it's Scatting. Feel free to move examples which would be more at home over there. Melismatic Vocals are a different sort of wailing noise representing actual words being stretched over a rack and tortured. Subtrope of Simple Score of Sadness. |
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The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess has one in the nighttime Hyrule Field theme. Drove a few to nostalgic tears on realizing that it was the same synthesized voice that was used for Malon's singing in Ocarina of Time. | |
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Dream Theater uses this in the intro to Through Her Eyes from their Concept Album Scenes From a Memory. | |
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Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones often has this as background music when navigating the ruined city of Babylon. | |
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Most pieces of music pertaining to the ELS in Gundam 00: A Wakening of the Trailblazer make heavy use of this, to the point that it's their Leitmotif. | |
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This is a favorite technique of Shadow Hearts series composer Yoshitaka Hirota. Take for example "Brain Hopper", a battle theme. | |
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The Super Mario Galaxy 2 remix of the "Road to Bowser" music from Super Mario 64. | |
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In Dark Chronicle, Emperor Griffon's battle theme, "Sun", features a dramatic wail set against a male choir of Ominous Latin Chanting, representing Sirus' longing for Alexandra as well as his psychotic hatred towards humanity. | |
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Samurai Jack: Heard in a couple of brief moments in "Jack and the Spartans". | |
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From Hellsinker we get the theme of the Apostles of the Seed. And soon thereafter we get Segment 7, the theme of Rex Cavalier although it's more of a One-Man Wail. | |
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Dragon Age series: Dragon Age: Origins loves this trope, with wailing at the title credits and during the Battle of Ostagar. Leliana will sing in camp if you have high enough approval rating with her. Our Lady makes a brief reappearance in the main theme for Dragon Age II, but she's mostly replaced in favor of some very plaintive strings. |
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Might & Magic 7 features this in heaps. The wailing is present almost everywhere, but the soundtracks for Barrow Downs, Eofol, Deyja and the Bracada desert really lean on it. Perfect wasteland wandering motifs. | |
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Used in the climax of Gravity as Dr. Stone re-enters Earth's atmosphere in the Shenzou. | |
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Used in Bleach when Ulquiorra releases his Zanpakuto. | |
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The Space Ghost Coast to Coast theme song, which begins with a wail of parts of the original Space Ghost theme. | |
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In King Arthur (2004) with Clive Owen. While Bor's... wife? Wife-to-be? is singing what appears to be a Sarmatian song, her voice gradually fades out as the scene cuts to the other knights, who are mouthing the words. | |
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Some tracks of the game Malicious use it, such as the eponymous music (very soothing by the way). | |
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Certain versions of "Lux Aeterna" from Requiem for a Dream have this. | |
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In The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, the "The Ecstasy of Gold." Not so much a One Woman Wail as a One Woman Orgasmic Scream, though. | |
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Is a recurring theme throughout the soundtrack of The Grudge 2. | |
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Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain features the song "Sins of the Father" by Donna Burke, which has a more dramatic take on this trope, seen in gameplay when Snake smokes a Phantom Cigar: | |
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The suspended poles ("Enchanted Reunion") and Chinese pole ("Creature of Light") acts in Amaluna | |
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Lisa Hannigan, especially in the background on "Ora" and "Swan". | |
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Titanic (1997) uses this quite a bit, with the vocals of Sissel Kyrkjebø being beautifully interwoven throughout the score to invoke nostalgia and memories for the entire film. | |
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Dark Souls has a few boss themes that fit the mold. There is also "Daughters of Chaos", which plays at the bonfire kept by Quelaag's sister—probably the most tragic of all Tragic Monsters in the game. | |
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Battle Tendency: The main theme for Kars starts off with this, and as the beat drops, it glitches out — which leads into the threatening dubstep-orchestral fusion melody of Kars' theme, Avalon. | |
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Sleeping Beauty: During the scene where Maleficent lures Aurora to the top of the tower to prick her finger on a spindle and fulfill her curse, if you listen closely to the background music, a woman's voice can be heard calling ominously, "Aurrrroraaaa...". Flora hears this, which alerts her to Maleficent's presence. | |
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In Ah! My Goddess it occurs when Keiichi's wish for the goddess Belldandy to stay by his side forever is granted. | |
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In the X series, the BGM for the Boron capital sector Kingdom End-uses this with some reverb added. In this case, it's probably meant to be evocative of whale song, since the Boron are an aquatic species. | |
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The Matrix: while they're giving Neo acupuncture as part of his transition into the real world. | |
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In My-Otome, "Materialise" starts with this before getting joined by a choir and techno music. It gets played when one or more of the heroes is about to unleash some major ass-kicking on the enemy. Which makes sense, since the title is the command word to activate the Otomes' Dresses. | |
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Star Trek: Picard: In "Absolute Candor", when Elnor and Picard meet again for the first time in fourteen years, there's the sound of a woman wailing. It's towards the end of the piece entitled "Picard Goes Back." | |
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Inverted: Ozzy Osbourne does a one-man wail in the song "Black Rain". | |
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ANNO: Mutationem: Absalom's boss theme features a prominent pitch of a chorus wail occurring mixed with the ambient music. | |
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Borderlands 2 features one briefly in the ambient soundtrack for Thousand Cuts. | |
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One of these is delivered near the end of the "Shiver My Timbers" opening number in Muppet Treasure Island, shortly before we're reminded that dead men tell no tales and Flint opens fire on his crew. | |
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Delta Rae occasionally use this - one of the most striking is Brittany's singing in "Scared." | |
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Parodied in the Community episode "Messianic Myths and Ancient Peoples." A female vocalist ululates Abed's name for a sort of joking Biblical epic effect many times throughout the episode, then in the "dramatic" ending, the singer eerily wails Shirley's name. Also parodied in "Advanced Dungeons and Dragons" when Brutopolis is cruelly slain by Pierce the Insensative (read: Chang's character is killed by Pierce's character, and has to hand in his character sheet). |
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The opening sequence of I, Frankenstein features this. | |
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The Hunger Games: One-woman wails are used several times throughout the series. Notable uses include the opening scenes of the first film, where ethereal vocalizations are heard as we are introduced to Katniss and her impoverished home in District 12, as well as the final film during the rebel siege of the Capitol. | |
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Flash Gordon: The scene in which Aura resurrects Flash after his execution is sung solo: by Freddie Mercury. | |
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Gameof Thrones features this in a few pieces, perhaps most poignantly in the end of "The Iron Throne," which plays over Daenerys's death scene, as Drogon flies away over the sea with her body. | |
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Electric Wizard employs this in "Ivixor B/Phase Inducer". | |
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Another rare male example occurs in Rush's "2112", at roughly 1:45 here. Of course, if any man can do such a wail, it's Geddy Lee. | |
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One-Woman Wail | |
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Parodied in the latest season of Arrested Development, in which the wail turns out to just be a very overworked rendition of the word 'coincidence'. Also used when Jack kills Curtis Manning. |
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Features in a few tracks on the Attack on Titan soundtrack (like the tracks "Attack on Titan" and "Bauklötze"). | |
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Amon Düül II has a lot of this on their first album, Phallus Dei, courtesy of singer Renate Knaup. | |
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Commandos 2: Men of Courage has a couple of such themes. For example, Savo island's undersea areas are set to this. | |
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A big feature of the revamped theme tune of the second season of The 100. | |
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Appears prominently in the soundtrack for Baten Kaitos, particularly as things get darker around the second disc. Probably the most memorable use is "Ruinous Commander," the Final Boss theme from Origins. | |
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Drop Zone has one right after the hero's kid brother is shot and yanked out of the depressurized airplane cabin. | |
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Volta most prominently has this in "Man Craft", "Battle of the Man", the climax of "The Bee and the Wind", and the coda of "Inside Me". | |
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The "Introjection" track from (disc III of) the Neon Genesis Evangelion soundtrack. | |
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Used to great effect when Jack Bauer raids the warehouse where the Drazens (who Jack believes to have killed his daughter Kim) are hiding out near the end of the first season of 24. | |
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A One-Woman Wail in Kid Icarus: Uprising plays when Pit sees the destroyed Skyworld, caused by the Chaos Kin possessing Palutena, for the first time. It later serves as a Recurring Riff throughout the rest of the Chaos Kin arc. | |
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Parodied in MADtv (1995) where they invite a woman supposedly responsible for providing the wailing and demonstrate how it makes everything more dramatic. The host asked her what language that's suppose to be but she replies that she doesn't know. | |
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Ace Combat: The BGM for Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War's final mission, "Zero," includes about 50 seconds of wailing... before heading into a remix of the BGM from the final mission of Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War. Also from 5, "Grabacr," starting at about 3:20. Ace Combat: Joint Assault pulls one of these as well. As does Ace Combat: Assault Horizon with "Mrs. Krista Yoslav" (which plays during the Final Battle). A bit confusing, the lyrics are in Russian but the tune is distinctly Middle-Eastern. Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown features a truly epic rendition in the form of Daredevil, which plays during the final battle with the second Arsenal Bird. |
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In World of Warcraft, an obscure questline ends with you going to Undercity to give Lady Sylvanas a necklace she lost in battle, at which point she conjures a choir of banshees and sings "Lament of the Highborne" as she recalls the fall of Silvermoon and her own death. The song replaces Undercity's normal BGM for its duration, and all players in the city will hear the ghostly dirge, which especially adds to the city's haunted feel for players who don't know about the quest. There are words, but they're entirely in Thallasian (the High/Blood Elf language). The Wrathgrate Cinematic created for Wrath of the Lich King has one near the end, during Highlord Bolvar Fordragon's death. The intro cinematic to Wrath of the Lich King also features this, using the Ascension theme from The Frozen Throne (see below), except this is a boy soprano, not a woman. |
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Lindsey Stirling in her music video for Assassin's Creed 3, when she's not rocking out on her violin. | |
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Passion in the Desert features this heavily on the soundtrack. | |
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The ending song by Lisbeth Scott, "I Was Born for This", from Journey (2012). | |
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The opening theme to Gatekeepers 21. The second half flips the themes, and this is moved to the ending credits, while the catchy J-Pop song "Ima, Egao ga Areba" in the ending credits plays to a new OP sequence. | |
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Tiger & Bunny scores Barnaby's flashbacks of his parents' murder with an ominous operatic wail. | |
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The themes for the battles against Fienne, Thuris and Drazil in Soul Nomad & the World Eaters. | |
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Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales: The teaser trailer ends with a haunting, melodic wail before the skull-and-crossbones logo is shown. | |
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Castlevania: Lament of Innocence gives us this. | |
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"Distorted" in La Nouba. | |
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The animated adaptation of Harmony features a One-Woman Wail in its final soundtrack: "Harmony", the moment where people are robbed of their consciences to create an utopia. | |
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Resident Evil: "Room of Lisa" from the Resident Evil remake. "The Third Malformation of G" from Resident Evil 2. Resident Evil – Code: Veronica: Alexia's battle themes use this prominently for the "Berceuse" melody. Resident Evil 5 also uses a track in its opening cutscene. |
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Metal Gear: The opening (and later, the ending) of Metal Gear Solid features a One-Woman Wail... in Irish, which not even a native speaker can follow. (Ironically, if you look at the official translated lyrics, she's singing about how life is wonderful and how people aren't alone). Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots took it to a more obvious extreme by wrapping the trailers in a Hebrew One Woman Wail which is more emblematic of the trope. It's about how terrible war is. A vocal-only version accompanies Snake's trip through the microwave hallway, as he damn near kills himself, and his allies do the same thing. Metal Gear Solid 4 also features a callback to the first game's One Woman Wail when Snake goes back to Shadow Moses Island. Metal Gear Solid 4 also has the credits song "Here's To You", which probably counts as a one-woman wail if you don't speak English. The bulk of Japanese gamers probably don't have to sit and wonder who Nicola and Bart are. Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain features the song "Sins of the Father" by Donna Burke, which has a more dramatic take on this trope, seen in gameplay when Snake smokes a Phantom Cigar: |
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In Persona 2, a frightened woman's scream is repeated throughout Nyarlathotep's Leitmotif. | |
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Used hauntingly throughout Shiki's soundtrack, but especially in its main theme, aptly name "SHI-KI". | |
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LittleBigPlanet 2: Victoria's Laboratory Int Music with only the Melody playing. | |
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In Endless Legend, both themes associated with the Drakken feature One Woman Wails: An Ancient Wail and Wisdom of Dark Ages. | |
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Warcraft III uses this when Arthas returns before killing his father, a One Boy Soprano Wail as he catches a rose petal and watches it wither in his hand, and a One-Woman Wail in The Ascencion cinematic at the end of The Frozen Throne. The Night Elves' defeat music also features one. |
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There are a couple of songs in Soul Eater that fall under this category — usually the darker sounding negative ones played during parts dealing with evil magic users in the show. Particularly notable are Kindertotenlied (translating roughly as "Song of the Dead Children") and Peace be with you. | |
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Hearts of Iron III's song Letters From Home features this. | |
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Done in the final part of Buona Fortuna, Jack, which plays at the end of My Name Is Nobody. | |
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One-Woman Wail / int_5d82ab44 | comment |
A rare male example: Red sings one in There Will Be Brawl while, across town, Peach is kidnapped. Later, a recording of him does it again over Yoshi's murder and his own funeral. | |
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In The Red Turtle, "She Is Dead" plays first plays during the red-turtle-floating vision, then when the man and the woman get romantically involved for the first time and also at the end when the turtle leaves the beach. | |
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One-Woman Wail / int_5e8c5a15 | comment |
The main theme of Dungeons & Dragons Tactics, also used in the map screen. | |
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One-Woman Wail | |
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"The Third Malformation of G" from Resident Evil 2. | |
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Resident Evil 5 also uses a track in its opening cutscene. | |
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∀ Gundam: "Black History" plays when Black History is revealed. It's a funeral dirge during the final battle, underlining the severity of the catastrophe that set up the premise of the series and is now on the verge of repeating. | |
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Ace Combat: Joint Assault pulls one of these as well. | |
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Much of the score to Tsubasa -RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE- feature vocalist Eri Ito. The noted examples include, "A Song of Storm and Fire", "Voices Silently Sing", "Ship of Fools" and "Sacrifice", to name a few. | |
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Dragon Age: Origins loves this trope, with wailing at the title credits and during the Battle of Ostagar. Leliana will sing in camp if you have high enough approval rating with her. | |
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One-Woman Wail / int_631805af | comment |
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots took it to a more obvious extreme by wrapping the trailers in a Hebrew One Woman Wail which is more emblematic of the trope. It's about how terrible war is. A vocal-only version accompanies Snake's trip through the microwave hallway, as he damn near kills himself, and his allies do the same thing. Metal Gear Solid 4 also features a callback to the first game's One Woman Wail when Snake goes back to Shadow Moses Island. Metal Gear Solid 4 also has the credits song "Here's To You", which probably counts as a one-woman wail if you don't speak English. The bulk of Japanese gamers probably don't have to sit and wonder who Nicola and Bart are. |
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In .hack//G.U. we have the Keel Mountain Range of Briona Gwydion, which is just one of several pieces like this. | |
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"Le reveur" in Varekai. | |
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Big Hero 6: The Series: In "Big Chibi 6", After Hardlight creates dozens of Captain Cutie holograms, they begin attacking the heroes while accompanied by a One-Woman Wail using the word "Chibi" over and over. | |
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"Take This Sabbath Day", a Very Special Episode about the death penalty, has the female cantor at Toby's synagogue practicing "Hashkiveinu" as he discusses the issue with his rabbi. The song is also played over the montage at the end of the episode. | |
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BlazBlue features this as the Leitmotif for Nu -13-. Awakening The Chaos. | |
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The Songbird's numbers in Saltimbanco. | |
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The X-Files had bunches of these, though the most notable was probably Scully's theme from Season 8. | |
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One-Woman Wail / int_6a2e8d39 | comment |
Prétear has a creepy wail (accompanied with either clanging piano or doomy sounding kettle drums, depending on the version) titled "Nikushimi no Hate" that's a leitmotif for the Dark Magical Girl. It's one of the best (and creepiest) songs on the entire soundtrack. | |
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Mocked in Thor: Ragnarok, where an a capella version of "Into Eternity" is sung by a small choir during a deliberately Narm-tastic recreation of Loki's apparent death from Dark World in an Asgardian play. | |
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Lestat's song "Forsaken" (as sung by David Draiman) in Queen of the Damned features this. | |
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One-Woman Wail / int_6d2aec8f | comment |
Stone Ocean: This is used exceptionally well in a few tracks, such as New Moon Gravity, which is then remixed in Made in Heaven's theme, Clock Works. We also get this trope in the theme used in the climax for the penultimate episode, and is last used in the track that plays after the universe is restored due to Pucci's defeat in his own crafted universe. | |
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One-Woman Wail | |
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In Digimon Data Squad, the Burst Mode evolution theme is an orchestral piece accompanied by a wail. | |
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Not surprisingly, the Graeme Revell score for The Crow has a lot of this going on. | |
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One-Woman Wail / int_71e013f3 | comment |
In Drakengard 3, whenever Zero taps into her Intoner powers, she sings along to the background music. This is also featured in all the Intoner boss fights, with the voices turning into jumbled murmuring (not unlike a fast rap verse) when Intoner Mode is activated. | |
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Avatar: The Last Airbender: The Grand Finale features the Wail during the climax of the battle between Aang and Fire Lord Ozai. Also happens during the last episode, when Sokka and Toph are about to die. Just before Suki arrives. |
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One-Woman Wail | |
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Arcane: League of Legends: In Episode 3, Silco delivers a calm Opening Monologue as he peacefully drowns in a large body of water while a One-Woman Wail plays on the soundtrack. | |
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The Legend of Zelda: The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess has one in the nighttime Hyrule Field theme. Drove a few to nostalgic tears on realizing that it was the same synthesized voice that was used for Malon's singing in Ocarina of Time. The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker uses one in the "enemy encounter at sea" music. |
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One-Woman Wail | |
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Like many tropes, this one is parodied in Tropic Thunder. | |
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Halo: Used in "Ashes" from Halo: Reach, alongside Lonely Piano, and "Atonement" from Halo 4. | |
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The ending theme of Metro 2033 that plays if you get the good ending includes this alongside the music as Artyom sits atop the tower, looking out across the world. | |
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An in-universe example happens in Mass Effect, wherein defeating the geth in the Armstrong Cluster triggers a recording of a lone quarian woman wailing. This is also one of the first indications of their (for want of a better word) humanity. | |
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The verse of The Cruxshadows' "Cassandra" has a vocodered background wail, alongside electric violin. | |
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This happens in The Day After Tomorrow, as the camera lovingly pans over scenes of meteorological destruction. | |
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Used in The Colbert Report during the segment Mysteries of the Ancient Unknown: King Tut's Penis," with some accompanying eyebrow twitches. Also used the first time he talks about the revolts in Egypt. | |
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The Colbert Report | hasFeature |
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One-Woman Wail | |
One-Woman Wail / int_7988cb68 | comment |
Mass Effect: An in-universe example happens in Mass Effect, wherein defeating the geth in the Armstrong Cluster triggers a recording of a lone quarian woman wailing. This is also one of the first indications of their (for want of a better word) humanity. |
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At 1:05, you can hear the same vocal sample that was used in San Francisco Rush's "Rave Rush" music. | |
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Shows up in Squidbillies as the Sheriff attempts to resuscitate a pig who has died of a meth overdose. | |
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Bayonetta: Bayonetta 2 features one during the boss theme "Alraune Whisperer of Insanity", which fits in eerily well amongst the Ominous Latin Chanting. The opera song Baal Zebul performs in Bayonetta 3, "Fertile Rondo", consists entirely of this. |
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The beginning of "After The Drop" from Medal of Honor: Frontline has a boy soprano version of this. Halfway through the song, a full Cherubic Choir joins in. Ditto for "Arnhem". | |
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Parodied in the Phineas and Ferb Halloween episode "Druselsteinoween." When Ferb starts singing the song "Vampire Queens Love Pimpernels," there's an ethereal wail in the background... and as the song progresses, there's a brief moment where it turns out that Baljeet is doing the wail. | |
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The opening animation for The Lost Crown has this. | |
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Prominently featured in Anemone's theme from Eureka Seven. | |
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Frozen (2013): Used over the end of For the First Time in Forever (Reprise) after Anna is struck in the heart by Elsa's ice magic. It really drives home how screwed she is. Oddly, the wail is absent in the soundtrack version of the song. | |
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Sabaton: The soundtrack version of their Concept Album about World War I remixes the songs into epic and often forlorn orchestral pieces featuring a mixture of choir and this trope in songs such as "Seven Pillars of Wisdom" and "The End of the War to End All Wars" lamenting the tragedy of the war. | |
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Tarja Turunen naturally is rather fond of this. Nightwish tunes "Astral Romance," "Angels Falls First," "Swanheart," "The Siren" and especially "Passion and the Opera" use it, and most of her solo works as well. | |
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Super Mario Bros.: Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door: A brief One-Woman Wail occurs at the start of the Final Boss first phase theme. The Super Mario Galaxy 2 remix of the "Road to Bowser" music from Super Mario 64. |
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Pokémon: The First Movie has an epic one being delivered during the big battle where the Pokémon fight their clones. Unfortunately, in the dub it was replaced by the awkwardly-sounding "Brother, My Brother". The wail was retained in the dub for the 2019 remake, however. | |
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The Field of the Dead from Alexander Nevsky. | |
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Mocked in Team America: World Police, during the scene after the dam bursts and everyone drowns. | |
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World of Goo: "The Burning Man," which plays in a good amount of the dark, industrial levels of Chapter 3, consists largely of metallic screeching combined with ethereal choir. It effectively encapsulates the hell that the factory is in the game. Its reprise, "Are You Coming Home, Love MOM," that plays upon meeting the eponymous character, as well as in the wreckage of the World Of Goo Corporation, reuses the above's vocals to a much more relaxed, yet still somber melody. |
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The song "Dante" from Fullmetal Alchemist (2003) features a uniquely low female voice echoing Dante's leitmotif. | |
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Frozen: Frozen (2013): Used over the end of For the First Time in Forever (Reprise) after Anna is struck in the heart by Elsa's ice magic. It really drives home how screwed she is. Oddly, the wail is absent in the soundtrack version of the song. Frozen II has this for the Voice of the Mountain in "Into the Unknown", courtesy of Norwegian singer Aurora. |
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Mission: Impossible II has Injection and Mano a Mano. | |
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Gundam: Kira Yamato's personal battle theme in Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny, "Kira Just as He Pleases" features the One-Woman Wail, in direct contrast to Shinn Asuka's theme, which has Ominous Latin Chanting. "Innovator" from the second season of Mobile Suit Gundam 00. Most pieces of music pertaining to the ELS in Gundam 00: A Wakening of the Trailblazer make heavy use of this, to the point that it's their Leitmotif. ∀ Gundam: "Black History" plays when Black History is revealed. It's a funeral dirge during the final battle, underlining the severity of the catastrophe that set up the premise of the series and is now on the verge of repeating. |
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The Insider: Lisa Gerrard of Dead Can Dance provides ephemeral wailing over soft synthesizer that sounds at times like it was lifted straight out of her single "The Host of Seraphim." | |
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Bernard Herrmann's opera Wuthering Heights ends with an eerie soprano voice resembling Cathy's, accompanied mostly by the sound of the wind, calling out to Heathcliff. | |
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Tyranny has Theme-and-Variations Soundtrack based on one such wail. It runs through tracks like "Binder of Fate" and "Kyros", and shows up in-game in the game's climaxes, such as during the breaking of Edicts and the deaths of Archons. | |
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Heard in the background every so often on Rome. | |
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One song that plays often near the end of Snatcher has a decent-for-its-time clip of a woman screaming between repetitions. | |
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In The Red Violin, a woman humming, called "Anna's Theme" on the soundtrack, introduces the titular violin. In a subtle transition, the woman's hum becomes the sound of Joshua Bell the violin. And if you pay attention, during the credits the violin's score returns — and then fades back into Anna's humming. | |
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In Xenoblade Chronicles 1, the song "Engage the Enemy" has a woman wail that plays in the 2 minutes mark. Since the first use of the song is before Fiora's death, this works with the heartwrenching nature of the song. The Switch version makes the wailing more emotional. | |
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Persona: The music in the Velvet Room, variously translated as "Aria of the Soul" and "The Poem for Everyone's Souls". In the first and second games, it's justified by having the singer (Belladonna) actually standing at a mike in the Velvet Room. It's also used in the final boss battle of Persona 3, which makes sense given that the song's title can be translated as "The Battle for Everyone's Souls". In Persona 2, a frightened woman's scream is repeated throughout Nyarlathotep's Leitmotif. |
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The Kadish Vault theme was later used in the trailer for the movie Munich. | |
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Namgar uses these both in her own songs (often reinterpretations of traditional Buryat-Mongol songs) and in her vocal work on the soundtrack for Inspector Putilin and Prince of the Wind. | |
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The Fifth Element: The Diva's song starts with a melancholic chanting, but becomes more upbeat during Leeloo's fight against the Mangalore soldiers. | |
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Library of Ruina has a similar haunting wail during the third version of Furioso, the theme that plays when you fight Roland during his Floor Realizations as well as the first three stages of his reception. | |
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Dollhouse's main theme carts out this trope. | |
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The Super Smash Bros. Melee remix of the Pokémon theme. | |
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Twilight Wing has these in "Emotion Eater"(Changeling Swamp) and "Gold Dusk"(Final Stage). The former samples the vocals from the Metal Gear Solid intro/ending theme. | |
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The "Jill's America" motif in the soundtrack to Once Upon a Time in the West: slow, arching very high and very low, and achingly beautiful. It first appears in the background when she arrives at her house and sees what should have been her new family, every member gunned down in cold blood. | |
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In the opening sequence of The Amazing Spider-Man, a boy soprano sings mournfully over the score as Peter Parker is handed over by his parents to his Uncle Ben and Aunt May. | |
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Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Ark's theme has it at certain points. When it shows up, really bad things start happening to people. | |
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DC Extended Universe: A serene version is the centerpiece of the song accompanying the first trailer for Man of Steel (taken from The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring). Features heavily in Zack Snyder's Justice League, accompanying every appearance of Wonder Woman and the Amazons. The English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing describe this as "ancient lamentation music". |
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Revolutionary Girl Utena has this twice the first with "Bara No Tameiki" which is Anthy's theme and then again later with "Poison" which uses elements with of Anthy's theme used especially after the dark reveal of the relationship between Anthy and Akio. | |
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Used in Rob Roy. As Archibald Cunningham murders Alan MacDonald, setting the plot in motion, Rob and his clan listen to a woman (Karen Matheson of Capercaillie) sing a mournful solo performance. The film cuts between the two scenes with the song playing over both. | |
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The soundtracks of Gladiator is responsible for lending the trope much of its considerable current momentum. This kind of wailing, not always on soundtracks, constitutes some 75% of Lisa Gerrard's career. | |
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Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time has a track that consists entirely of this. | |
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"Godzilla's Requiem" in Godzilla vs. Destoroyah plays with this, by having a whole choir sing alongside Akira Ifukube's Orchestra. This is especially striking, as the notes continue to be sung, even as Godzilla's death is played out in full. | |
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Top Gun has "Memories," which plays when Maverick consoles Goose's wife and son after he dies in a training accident halfway through. | |
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Heard during the execution sequence in Dead Man Walking. | |
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Berserk (1997) features a piece known only as "Guts", or "Guts's Theme", which features a wordless, high-pitched lament in its main vocal line. Interestingly, though the vocal sounds female, it is actually performed by the male composer, Susumu Hirasawa, who is renowned for his high tenor vocal range. While it still definitely fits the trope in terms of aesthetics, technically speaking, it's a One-Man Wail. | |
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Promos for various cop shows, especially Law & Order, use a wordless Arabic-style women's vocal when this week's episode is going to feature Muslims in some way. | |
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Resident Evil – Code: Veronica: Alexia's battle themes use this prominently for the "Berceuse" melody. | |
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Lobotomy Corporation has this included in the Third Warning music. Library of Ruina has a similar haunting wail during the third version of Furioso, the theme that plays when you fight Roland during his Floor Realizations as well as the first three stages of his reception. |
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Spoofed in Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei: the track that would normally serve as a wail tends to play during faux-dramatic scenes and sometimes at completely random times, such as during the sponsor message. It's also often cut short when the shot suddenly changes. | |
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Apollo 13 features Annie Lennox of the Eurythmics wailing away as the titular ship disappears into radio silence behind the far side of the Moon and Marilyn Lovell finally breaks down crying. She sings several other times, but usually with accompaniment. | |
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The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker uses one in the "enemy encounter at sea" music. | |
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The West Wing: "Take This Sabbath Day", a Very Special Episode about the death penalty, has the female cantor at Toby's synagogue practicing "Hashkiveinu" as he discusses the issue with his rabbi. The song is also played over the montage at the end of the episode. "7A WF 83429", which deals with the aftermath of the President's daughter being kidnapped, used Dead Can Dance's "Sanvean (I'm Your Shadow)" over a montage showing thousands of floral tributes left at the White House Fence, evoking memories of Princess Diana although Zoey has not died and will eventually be found. |
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Golden Wind: This occurs with a heavenly wail as Bucciarati is ascending to the afterlife, with Giorno watching from afar. | |
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Apollo 440: “Christiane� combines this with vaguely foreign-sounding, wordless vocals. “High On Your Own Supply� has one as a bridge, after the first chorus. “Stealth Mass in F#m� uses sad-sounding, ethereal one-woman wails for much of the song. |
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A serene version is the centerpiece of the song accompanying the first trailer for Man of Steel (taken from The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring). | |
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The DanceDanceRevolution songs "L'amour et la liberte" and "Tears". | |
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Hell Girl uses these to evoke a lot of different moods and emotions. "Ake ni Somaru", for example, features both a woman and a child, mixed with creepy trance music. It did a damn good job of turning mundane, peaceful scenes (like a cityscape at sunset) into spooky panoramas while seeming to kick the characters while they're down. "Mangetsu," by contrast, is a heartwarming theme that plays over some of the few genuinely happy moments in the series. "Kumo To Rouba To Shoujo," meanwhile, is used to evoke feelings of sadness and sympathy both for the Victim of the Week and for Ai and her minions. And that's just from the first season's soundtrack. | |
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The opening (and later, the ending) of Metal Gear Solid features a One-Woman Wail... in Irish, which not even a native speaker can follow. (Ironically, if you look at the official translated lyrics, she's singing about how life is wonderful and how people aren't alone). | |
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The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power: The One-Woman Wail is heard while the orcs are chasing Arondir, Theo and Bronwyn through the woods, belongs to Disa, which is a plea to rocks to let the miners get out alive. | |
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The BGM for Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War's final mission, "Zero," includes about 50 seconds of wailing... before heading into a remix of the BGM from the final mission of Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War. | |
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There is an incredibly haunting track on the second volume of the Portal 2 soundtrack called PotatOS's Lament. It's sung by GLaDOS after she's been turned into a potato, and plays in the Act II title screen. The lyrics are in Latin (and make little to no sense when translated), but the Drone of Dread-music combined with the fact that you can hear GLaDOS's voice breaking at the end. | |
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Current Nightwish singer Floor Jansen lent her name to the fandom term "Floorgasm" after she joined the band, applying in particular to the closing aria of her take on "Ghost Love Score" (originally written for Tarja). | |
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General and I's first episode starts an eerie, mournful wail. | |
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Skullgirls uses this trope in the intro to the opening theme of the game, and is also used in the Final Boss theme: "Skull Heart Arryhmia". | |
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Courage the Cowardly Dog: Multiple: This trope is used during a boat chase scene in "Human Habitrail" where Doctor Gerbil pursues Courage. Also in the episode "Shadow of Courage", played whenever Muriel rushes over to whack Eustace with a rolling pin (because he's scaring/harming Courage). |
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In Journey 2 The Mysterious Island, there's a one-woman wail during the giant bee chase when Kaylani falls off the bee and plummets to the jungle floor below, until she is caught by Sean astride his giant bee. | |
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JoJo's Bizarre Adventure uses this in a few select tracks throughout the series. Battle Tendency: The main theme for Kars starts off with this, and as the beat drops, it glitches out — which leads into the threatening dubstep-orchestral fusion melody of Kars' theme, Avalon. Golden Wind: This occurs with a heavenly wail as Bucciarati is ascending to the afterlife, with Giorno watching from afar. Stone Ocean: This is used exceptionally well in a few tracks, such as New Moon Gravity, which is then remixed in Made in Heaven's theme, Clock Works. We also get this trope in the theme used in the climax for the penultimate episode, and is last used in the track that plays after the universe is restored due to Pucci's defeat in his own crafted universe. |
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Vangelis uses this on the Heaven and Hell concept LP. On the Hell side, a chorus of the damned souls in Hell (who are being whipped by demons) morphs into a classic One Woman Wail, loaded with pain and sorrow and regret. | |
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Notably in Star Ocean: Till the End of Time, the background music on the aptly named planet Styx. | |
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From Lost Odyssey, "Parting Forever," which plays when Lirum dies. | |
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Sonic the Hedgehog: Another example definitely intended to be ominous rather than sad is the final boss theme of Sonic CD. This is the part that's unique to Amy's section of End of the World in Sonic the Hedgehog (2006). It makes sense, considering the person she has feelings for just died. |
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played with in the Modern Family, in the episode Family Portrait, where Cameron is singing Ave Maria in a wedding, while Mitchell is trying to kill a pigeon who got into their house. | |
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A One Woman Wail provides an "eerie vampire sadness" motif in Dracula 2000 as well. | |
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Blown Away opens with "Prince's Day", a wail-like reprise of the Irish song "Though Dark Are Our Sorrow" rearranged by Alan Silvestri and sung by a soprano boy (instead of a woman) with an ethereal choir in the background. Thomas Moore originally wrote the lyrics. | |
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The "Enchanted Banquet" boss music in Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, appropriately enough used only when fighting female bosses. There's also "Prayer", the song used on the menu screen. |
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Subverted in Spartacus: Blood and Sand. This plays after Spartacus and Crixus think they've defeated The Dreaded Theokoles in the arena. But it turns out it's just a Hope Spot, and Theokoles jumps up to let the real battle begin. | |
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Princess Silver: An eerie wail plays during Rong Le and Rong Qi's farewell. | |
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Heard for a while in Borat, after Azamat leaves. This same piece of music, Ederlezi, was first used in Emir Kusturica's Time of the Gypsies during Perhan's dream on the river. |
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Fate/stay night: In the 2012 Updated Re-release, the new version of Shirou's leitmotif that plays whenever he does something momentous is accompanied by this. Have a listen. "This Illusion", the opening song, turns into this halfway through. |
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The trope is used many times in the movie Crash (the one without James Spader or fetishism) to make some scenes more moving. | |
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Prince of Persia: Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones often has this as background music when navigating the ruined city of Babylon. Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time has a track that consists entirely of this. |
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Vas and Nyiaz, both featuring Azam Ali, who also has her own soul career, and also contributed to Syphon Filter: Logan's Shadow. | |
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Critical Role: Used as background music for effect when Vox Machina recover the body of Tiberius. | |
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The late Israeli pop icon and Eurovision Song Contest representative, Ofra Haza, provided one in "Temple of Love" by The Sisters of Mercy. | |
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Appears in-universe and to chilling effect (though there was more than one woman performing it) while the Harif army in Lawrence of Arabia is setting out to cross the Nefud and attack Al-Aquaba. The shot from the top of the cliff with the mourning women drowning out the stirring battle songs from below. It's called "ululation", which is different from a wail and could also be interpreted as the women giving the men an encouraging send off. That's what it is when Native American women do it (well, that and to scare the enemy). Lakotah holy man Black Elk refers to it as the "tremolo". It's also a way of showing respect or honor and is done in many other world cultures. |
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Kirby and the Forgotten Land: One is featured in Fecto Elfilis's boss theme, Two Planets Approach the Roche Limit. | |
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In Team Fortress 2, the "ROBOTS!" song on the soundtrack features this near the end, as the voice wails along with the melody. | |
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God of War (PS4) uses this to great effect throughout the soundtrack, such as in "Memories of Mother." | |
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Blade Runner has this. It was a great effect with the blue light filtering in from overhead. | |
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Used to great effect in The Prince of Egypt: "Deliver Us" and several other tracks feature vocals by Ofra Haza, who also voices Moses' mother, Yocheved. | |
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A great example is from Uchuu Senkan Yamato. Almost every movie and TV series opening starts with a voice-over narration accompanied by a magnificent wail The Infinity of Space. Example from the Space Battleship Concert 1984. | |
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Mob Psycho 100: In the third season, Dimple stays behind to destroy the divine tree while he sends Mob home, accompanied by a melancholy wail. | |
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The ending credits to Gunslinger Girl has this in Italian, with a second voice occasionally speaking without tone during interludes. The sequence shows a handgun lying on a cobblestone street as it rains and the credits scrolling up, heightening the tragic overtones of the series. | |
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Doctor Who: "The Ice Warriors" has a weird score, especially by Classic series standards, consisting of a wailing operatic soprano over dissonant orchestra stabbing. It's very Sixties. And terrifying. The series has its resident wailist, Melanie Pappenheim, notable for contributing wordless vocals for tracks such as the old Doctor's theme, "Doomsday", "Martha's Theme", and "The Doctor Forever". "Planet of the Ood" has a lot of this to represent the songs of the Ood. The Steven Moffat era seems to have switched over to Yamit Mamo, who sang "The Stowaway" and "My Angel Put the Devil in Me", for the wailing, as heard in "The Mad Man with a Box." And in Season Six we have one for the, as a fan described it, "having my brain explode" moments. The Thirteenth Doctor's theme starts off as this trope before the soloist escalates it into a full-throated yell. |
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DEFCON has this in the main background music. Extra points for not being a woman singing in a sad voice, but actually crying. Which is very fitting, considering that the point of the game is to bomb as many of your enemies' cities with nukes as possible. | |
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The game Medieval: Total War uses this trope in every way it can. Rome: Total War has it as the theme for losing battles and battles ending in a draw, as opposed to the victorious-sounding Ominous Latin Chanting played during victories. It is fittingly entitled "Lost Souls". |
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Darius: Darius Gaiden: This clip. It doesn't help that in that clip it is heard just as the boss appears. Not only this is the final stage music, the bosses in Darius Gaiden are Nintendo Hard in and of themselves. Even the uploader admitted that he'd die if the boss pulls the disappear-into-the-background trick again; yeah, The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard. For bonus score? This particular boss resembled the very first boss, giving a very nasty surprise to any unprepared players. That same warbling voice echoes in the game's many different endings, most of which are either tremendously nihilistic or just downright weird, kinda like the music. Darius Burst: We have "The World of Spirit." "Another Chronicle" gives us this in a similar vein as with Darius Gaiden. Zones A, D, and H's BGMs are this trope in spades. "Hello 31337" (pronounced "Hello Elite"), the boss theme used for the Great Thing Final Boss series, which features a voice constantly chanting something along the lines of "HA!" in the background, as if laughing at you. |
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While the soundtrack of the original Deus Ex is almost entirely techno - the second game, Invisible War features a One Woman Wail remix of the original game's theme. The soundtrack of Human Revolution, on the other hand, has a wail in almost every track. | |
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During Kanan's sacrifice in Star Wars Rebels, all audio is muted except for the music, with the Wail serving as the voice for the grieving characters. | |
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Axiom Verge and Axiom Verge 2 feature multiple tracks with wailing, fitting the lonely feeling of the games' many isolated areas. Sometimes there's even a chorus of wailing. | |
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Kira Yamato's personal battle theme in Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny, "Kira Just as He Pleases" features the One-Woman Wail, in direct contrast to Shinn Asuka's theme, which has Ominous Latin Chanting. | |
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No More Heroes with Bad Girl's theme, Pleather for Breakfast. | |
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The Silent Witness theme tune, Silencium by Jane Sheldon. | |
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The stage musical of The Little Mermaid has a one-woman wail version of "Part of Your World" as a Dream Melody. | |
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Dragon Ball Z Kai: When Goku dies in front of his friends, the BGM changes to a wail as the episode draws to a close. And also after when Yamcha is killed by a Saibaiman's sacrifice, also before that Tenshinhan it's going to do the Kikoho and sacrifice their life, in the same moment that Kamisama is predicting their own death, when The Saichoro dies, and by consequence, the namek Dragon Balls are turned in stone before the third wish, when Vegeta is dying by the hands of Freezer, and in a filler scene when Goku is having a nightmare during their combat with Freezer, now using the 50% of their maximum power. | |
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Battlestar Galactica examples include "A Call to Arms" and "The Storm and the Dead", the start of the main theme and in "Lords of Kobol." | |
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Yoko Ono is known for this. Example: "Don't Worry, Kyoko (Mummy's Only Looking for Her Hand in the Snow)". Particularly the version on her release with John Lennon, Some Time in New York City/Live Jam. It's also the main reason why Lennon's first two solo albums Unfinished Music No. 1: Two Virgins and side 1 of Unfinished Music No. 2: Life with the Lions are such a Sensory Abuse. | |
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Exorcist II: The Heretic features some weird Yoko-esque keening in spots. | |
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Rome: Total War has it as the theme for losing battles and battles ending in a draw, as opposed to the victorious-sounding Ominous Latin Chanting played during victories. It is fittingly entitled "Lost Souls". | |
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Survivor used this during its Pearl Islands and All-Stars seasons; the former when Sandra and Lil were leaving the camp for the last time, and the latter when Jenna chose to take herself out of the game to be with her terminally ill mother. | |
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Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, where almost ALL the opening themes are sung by a Russian singer named Origa. The first theme, "Inner Universe" even takes the next step and features Latin vocals from boy soprano Ben Del Maestro. | |
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The Diablo III cinematic trailer unveiled in June 2008 features such a wail. | |
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The Sailor Moon S anime featured one of these every time Hotaru manifested her powers as Mistress Nine. Here it is. | |
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The intros of Funker Vogt's "Hard Way" and "Our Life". | |
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Lampshaded in an episode of Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, where the singing is heard while Herc is mourning the death of his second wife, and the singer turns out to be Xena. The funeral song that Xena sang in multiple episodes of the franchise was actually a pre-existing song called "Burial" written and performed by Lucy Lawless. |
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Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door: A brief One-Woman Wail occurs at the start of the Final Boss first phase theme. | |
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Parasite Eve: While it has a few musical themes using this trope throughout the game, the most notable of these is Eve's battle theme, "Influence of Deep", which features a One-Woman Wail being heard amidst techno music. It also has an instrumental segment played using an organ tossed in. | |
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Ori and the Blind Forest has many examples sung by Aeralie Brighton, such as "Ori, Lost in the Storm", "The Spirit Tree", "Approaching the End", "Returning to the Spirit Tree", "The Sacrifice", and "Light of Nibel". | |
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Quake has this in one of its CD music tracks, although strictly speaking it's a one-man scream. A man's yell/scream begins and continues for an unnaturally long time, fading in and out and occasionally becoming ragged. The effect is suitably disturbing for the player. | |
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Once Upon a Time uses one in the episode "Shattered Sight" as Ingrid the Snow Queen makes a last minute Heroic Sacrifice to redeem herself. She is then reunited with her sisters in the afterlife. | |
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Kingdom Hearts III: The gut-wrenching fight against a darkness-corrupted Aqua has segments that involve a wordless "ah" vocalization from one woman, and segments that seem to be a duet between two of these. | |
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Much of Iced Earth 's recent Set Abominae-based material has made use of both this and Ominous Latin Chanting. Most blatant one is probably "Awakening." | |
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Crimson Echoes: The song played during the battle with Antaeus Porre features this. | |
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Our Lady makes a brief reappearance in the main theme for Dragon Age II, but she's mostly replaced in favor of some very plaintive strings. | |
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Used in "Slayer's Elegy" from the Buffy episode "The Wish" when absolutely everything is going wrong. | |
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In Dead Island, the background music for the church safehouse has a theme based on this trope. | |
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In Turgor, the tracks called "The Adit" and " Sister's Death" | |
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Used in The Karate Kid (2010) during the cobra scene (and whenever it makes reference to it). | |
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Included in the theme music for Stargate Atlantis (otherwise an Instrumental Theme Tune). | |
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From the Myst series, Uru: Ages Beyond Myst and Uru Live (AKA Myst Online) has a wail in Kadish's Gallery. Another such wail plays in Kadish's Vault. The Kadish Vault theme was later used in the trailer for the movie Munich. |
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The music in P.N.03's intro cutscene, and by extension the final stage, features both male and female throat singing. | |
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"Lilium", Elfen Lied's opening theme, is both this trope and Ominous Latin Chanting by being a one-woman Latin wail. When it's used during scenes, it sounds like it's sung by a bunch of monks instead. | |
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The track that accompanied the opening scenes of the Negima! Magister Negi Magi ~Ala Alba~ OAD's first episode, where Ku:Nel confirmed that Nagi was alive and could possibly be found in the Magicl World and Negi and crew proclaim their intent to search for him there. | |
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The soundtrack for Xen in Black Mesa makes heavy use of this. One of the best examples is the haunting opening track "Transcendent", perfectly setting the tone for the beautiful, dreamlike, alien place that is Xen. | |
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The beginning of the Firefly episode "Heart of Gold". That one is an old Punjabi wedding song called "Madhaniyan", if anyone cares to listen. | |
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Mike Oldfield uses this occasionally. In "Red Dawn" from Tubular Bells II. In "The Inner Child" from Tubular Bells III. |
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Fire Emblem: Awakening has a rare fusion of Ominous Latin Chanting and the One Woman Wail: before you fight one of the major story bosses, as he and your character have their dramatic discussion before fighting one another, this piece will play: a One-Woman Wail that isn't sad or forlorn, but rather ominous and chilling. Once the fighting starts, though, it kicks right into Ominous Latin Chanting. | |
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Bayonetta 2 features one during the boss theme "Alraune Whisperer of Insanity", which fits in eerily well amongst the Ominous Latin Chanting. | |
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The opera song Baal Zebul performs in Bayonetta 3, "Fertile Rondo", consists entirely of this. | |
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As does Ace Combat: Assault Horizon with "Mrs. Krista Yoslav" (which plays during the Final Battle). A bit confusing, the lyrics are in Russian but the tune is distinctly Middle-Eastern. | |
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Broken Saints: At the final part of Chapter 24 Act 4, contains a very powerful wail titled "Truth". Apart from that, the tracks "Come Into The Dark", "The Eight Element", "Belief", "Kenoma", and "Qaf", used at various points in the series. |
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Horizon Zero Dawn uses the vocals of Julie Elven frequently and to great effect, most obviously in "Aloy's Theme" but in many other parts of the soundtrack as well. | |
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The Lord of the Rings series has several moments like this: A boy soprano cutting in at dramatic moments like Gandalf's escape from Orthanc and the Ents breaking Saruman's dam, and almost any other moment when nature shows resurgence. Faramir's apparent death is accompanied by a One Hobbit Mournful Solo that Pippin is singing elsewhere for Denethor. Female solos accompany several significant scenes: Gandalf's fall from the bridge of Khazad-dum. Leading a chorus of other singers during Gandalf's lament in Lothlórien, and as Haldir and the other Lórien elves are cut down at the Battle of Helm's Deep. The resurrecting dream Arwen sends to Aragorn after his tumble fighting the wargs. When Gollum recovers the One Ring. When the Eagles rescue Frodo and Sam at the end. In the extended version, Éowyn's lament at her cousin Théodred's funeral provides this. |
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Features heavily in Zack Snyder's Justice League, accompanying every appearance of Wonder Woman and the Amazons. The English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing describe this as "ancient lamentation music". | |
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Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown features a truly epic rendition in the form of Daredevil, which plays during the final battle with the second Arsenal Bird. | |
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There's a bit in the end credits music of Cloverfield. | |
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Repo! The Genetic Opera. There is a short burst of this at the start of 'At the Opera Tonight', and the choir backing up 'We Started This Op'ra Sh*t'. | |
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Code Lyoko incorporates a wail whenever Aelita uses her Creativity power. (Some viewers mistake it for Aelita actually doing the singing, but she sometimes speaks, vocalizes, or sings her own note at the same time, showing it isn't the case.) | |
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Hollow Knight has a one-woman wail in the outside sections of the City of Tears, whose melody is also sung by the ghost songstress Marissa in the Pleasure House. Some portions of "Daughter of Hallownest" (Hornet's remixed DLC theme) also fit. | |
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The Sum of All Fears has The Mission. | |
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Frozen II has this for the Voice of the Mountain in "Into the Unknown", courtesy of Norwegian singer Aurora. | |
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The Phantom of the Opera has Christine do this near the end of the titular song. | |
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Flag's opening puts a wail over photographs of war and the childhood of the protagonist. It's actually pretty good. | |
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The Tree of Life features an epic 15-minute The World Is Just Awesome scene full of Scenery Porn with a haunting operatic voice over scenes taking the viewer from the creation of the universe to the birth of the main character. | |
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Gravity Falls: Parodied in "Sock Opera", where a woman singing "Ave Maria" plays over a puppet show getting destroyed by fireworks. | |
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The soundtrack for A Fistful of Dynamite has this, while the chorus sings "Sean Sean". | |
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The opening credits for the CBS detective series Cold Case features a rather ghostly female wail. | |
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