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The Dead Can Dance
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What do the dead do? Why, dance, of course. (Vampires and skeletons especially, it seems.) It's the hidden language of the soul (whether they have a soul or not). And if the dead aren't immediately chowing down on you, they may end up leading you in a jaunty tune. This probably stems from the Danse Macabre, a medieval allegory about how death unites everyone — how no matter your station, everyone does the "dance of death." And who doesn't want to dance? So if you're a bloodsucker, a bag of bones, a bawling banshee or the bleak bringer of biolysis, you can still boogie to the beat. People who are hanged by the neck are sometimes said to dance "the hemp fandango", "the sisal twostep" or "the gallows jig", a quite-literally-Gallows Humor reference to the way people would thrash at the end of the rope (usually as a result of the condemned strangling to death rather than having their neck snapped by the fall). May or may not be related to the band Dead Can Dance. See also Monster Mash, Skeletal Musician, Mummies at the Dinner Table and I Love the Dead. If the dead in question are zombies, then there's a good chance of them performing a Michael Jackson's Thriller Parody. May also involve Xylophones for Walking Bones or Creepy Ballet. |
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The Zombie class has their Thrill Dancing attack in Disgaea 4: A Promise Unforgotten which summons a mob of dancing zombies that convince the target to join in. Amusingly, it has a S rank for the damage it causes (Which is the highest). | |
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The gamestop pre-order promo for Batman: Arkham Asylum is a bonus level of dancing skeletons. They also sing "Dem Bones." | |
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In Over the Garden Wall, the residents of Pottsfield celebrate a seemingly endless harvest festival, including dancing around a maypole, and are soon revealed to be costumed skeletons. | |
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Count Duckula, Season 1, Episode 1 sends the Count seeking a magical saxophone in an ancient Egyptian pyramid. When he plays, the previously inactive mummies get up to get down. | |
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The Munchkin enemy "Mr. Bones" is depicted as a dancing skeleton with a cane and a hat. | |
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Woody Allen's film Everyone Says I Love You features a scene set in a funeral parlor where a recently-deceased grandfather's spirit steps out of his body and leads a troupe of fellow ghosts in dancing to the song "Enjoy Yourself (It's Later than You Think)." | |
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At the end of Reaper Man, he shows a sentimental side to someone who is dead. | |
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The Dead Can Dance / int_2116a435 | type |
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In Red Dead Redemption: Undead Nightmare you will find Seth (A crazed fortune hunter who likes talking to corpses) having a full on party with the undead, as he is one of the only characters in the game whom the zombies never harm. | |
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Angel also dances, horribly, in a mental scene. Wesley also dances in the same episode, equally horribly. But he's human. | |
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The Dead Can Dance / int_27a1c485 | type |
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The videos RIP and MEOW by Cyriak. The former features an entire graveyard of skeletons reanimating and dancing, including a disco rave, while the latter is a Zombie Apocalypse in an otherwise cutesy city of cartoon cats where the undead dance to the background music (when they're not busy massacring the living, at least). | |
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Love and Death, Boris dances with the Grim Reaper at the conclusion. | |
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Evil Dead: The Musical, especially the number "Do the Necronomicon." | |
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Tanz Der Vampire's title actually refers to a social event, but the vampires dance several times throughout the whole show. The best examples of this are Carpe Noctem and Act II finale. | |
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The Grim Reaper in Horrible Histories always dances to the "Stupid Deaths" opening jingle, and even gets a team of Thrilleresque zombie backup dancers in the Scary Special song. | |
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Averted in Yo Kai Watch, where schoolchildren are discussing Yōkai that they've seen around the school. One girl mentions "A skeleton who's bad at dancing". | |
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The Haunting Hour features "The Halloween Dance", a story concerning a gathering of the undead who have a party in the world of the living, and then conclude the night with a dance that manages to slow down time. The Dead All Along protagonist attempts to reverse the dance to prevent his death, but it doesn't work out the way he hoped. | |
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Nightfall (Series): Vampires constantly throw elaborate balls. | |
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The dead dance in the Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated episode "Dance of the Undead". Although, they turn out not really to be undead after all. | |
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Lucha Libre great La Parka, as seen here. | |
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Classic Disney Shorts: "The Skeleton Dance" features a band of rubber-hose skeletons dancing the night away in a graveyard. In "The Haunted House", Mickey Mouse has an encounter with a terrifying band of skeletons... who turn out to be quite friendly when he plays them some organ music. In "The Mad Doctor", dancing skeletons are one of the strange and alarming sights Mickey encounters when travelling through the Doctor's lair. |
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In Skylanders: Giants, Cynder’s Heroic Challenge is to reunite a bunch of zombies with their heads so they can have a dance party. When they do, the booming and normally intimidating announcer cheers them on. | |
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Princess Tutu has this trope show up twice, although considering the show is about dancing and can be darkly bizarre at times that might not be too surprising. The first time is in an episode based on the ballet Giselle, where a ghost of a woman that committed suicide dances against Rue and later Princess Tutu for the right to take Mytho to the Underworld. Later on, in the Depths of Despair, skeletons dance ballet — not to Danse Macabre, as you might expect, but Dance of the Dying Swan. You also might count Drosselmeyer, who occasionally does brief dance steps and is quite dead. | |
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There's a Calvin and Hobbes strip that invokes this by way of Woolseyism. In the original, Calvin and Hobbes play cowboys, and when Hobbes "shoots" Calvin, he gives him a "Death Rattle." In French, the translator changed it to, "It's the Danse Maraca-bre!" Feel free to groan, or gémir. | |
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In The Dresden Files, specifically Dead Beat, it is stated that zombies need music to stay animated. Specifically, they need a drumbeat to trick them into thinking that their heart is still beating. One of the book's Necromancers accomplishes this with a tricked-out vintage Cadillac featuring a monstrous subwoofer. For very big zombies, polka music works. | |
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A dance performed by cheerful skeletons opens the second act of KOOZA. | |
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On the Discworld, Death is usually a rather austere figure — but he also respects tradition... At the end of Reaper Man, he shows a sentimental side to someone who is dead. He is also strongly hinted to make a habit of joining in the Mardi Gras-expy festivities in the New Orleans-expy city of Genua, at least after the events of Witches Abroad have provided him with a top hat. |
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World of Warcraft, besides having dance animations for every playable race including the undead Forsaken, has an odd encounter in one of the Razorfen dungeons where the PCs walk in on a skeleton dance party. The skeletons are not amused. | |
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At the end of the John Travolta movie Michael, the archangel softshoes off into the end credits with a ghost as his partner. | |
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Mad Monster Party? has the Mate of Frankenstein's Monster dancing with the Mummy to "Do the Mummy" at a party the brilliant and devious Baron von Frankenstein is giving on the Isle of Evil. Oh, and the band, Little Tibia and the Fibias, consists entirely of living skeletons. | |
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Lindsey Stirling is attacked by zombies and makes them dance to her violin in the video for "Moon Trance". | |
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Likewise the hundred dead ninja in The Adventures of Dr. McNinja, dancing to "Thriller", again. Led by Benjamin Franklin, of all people. Of course, it turns out to just be a dream, although the ninja zombies do in fact start attacking later on. | |
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In Homestuck, a dead Tavros breaks into a number of uniquely named dances in front of a flabbergasted Vriska. This is because he gathered an entire army by himself. | |
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In Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge, you get a hint for a future puzzle by watching the skeletons of Guybrush's parents dance while singing "Dem Bones" during a concussed hallucination. | |
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"The Skeleton Dance" features a band of rubber-hose skeletons dancing the night away in a graveyard. | |
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Evoked in Tsukiuta Act 4: Lunatic Party, the Halloween special, in the Middle members' song called "Dead Dance". | |
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Zombo: There are multiple sequences of singing and dancing zombies. Zombo himself has got some moves too. | |
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In A Christmas Carol: The Musical, Marley's ghost and his fellow wandering spirits do this towards the end of the "Link By Link" musical number. | |
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Zombie Land Saga has the eponymous zombie girls, who actually play with this trope a bit. Prior to their awakening to full sapience, the closest they come to dancing is full-body headbanging in the presence of death metal. Later episodes show them training to dance; in their second performance, the hundred-year-old Yugiri uses a much older form of dance and the still-mindless Tae only waves her hands in the air. Basically, the dead can dance... about as well as any living person. | |
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The X-Files episode "Hollywood AD" invokes this trope. It is a fairly odd episode, even for The X-Files, but in it, Mulder proposes that the undead are motivated to fulfill the same drives as the living, and that they might eventually get to dancing, and laughing, and love. After he and Scully walk away, and just before the credits, you see a (fake) cemetery full of the dead dancing to some lively tune. | |
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The Dead Can Dance / int_697c6470 | comment |
In the final scene of The Consul, Magda (soon to be dead) has a vision in which her mother (already dead) dances with John (not dead yet but obviously doomed). | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_697c6470 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_697c6470 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Consul (Theatre) | hasFeature |
The Dead Can Dance / int_697c6470 | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_6a4e2e01 | type |
The Dead Can Dance | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_6a4e2e01 | comment |
Avenged Sevenfold's "Dancing Dead" describes a similar scene. Interestingly, on the same album, they cover an Iron Maiden song ("Flash of the Blade"), and A 7 X is also very fond of academic, literary, and biblical references. | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_6a4e2e01 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_6a4e2e01 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Avenged Sevenfold (Music) | hasFeature |
The Dead Can Dance / int_6a4e2e01 | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_6c4031ea | type |
The Dead Can Dance | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_6c4031ea | comment |
An early draft of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs had the queen throwing the prince in a dungeon then animating some dancing skeletons but it was too awkward to animate. | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_6c4031ea | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_6c4031ea | featureConfidence |
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs | hasFeature |
The Dead Can Dance / int_6c4031ea | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_6cd819eb | type |
The Dead Can Dance | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_6cd819eb | comment |
In Skulduggery Pleasant: Death Bringer, the eponymous Skeleton Detective himself shows off his dancing skills at the Requiem Ball. | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_6cd819eb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_6cd819eb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Skulduggery Pleasant | hasFeature |
The Dead Can Dance / int_6cd819eb | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_6d5b520a | type |
The Dead Can Dance | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_6d5b520a | comment |
Gitaroo Man: The Sanbone Trio, a band of mariachi skeletons, is one of U-1's opponents. Thanks to starting their battle with a long and complex sequence where you can only defend, they're one of the hardest enemies in the game. | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_6d5b520a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_6d5b520a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Gitaroo Man (Video Game) | hasFeature |
The Dead Can Dance / int_6d5b520a | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_6f76d71a | type |
The Dead Can Dance | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_6f76d71a | comment |
A "good" death in The Sims 2 lets The Grim Reaper hand you an Umbrella Drink, while two "Hula Zombies" accompany you in traditional dance. Death is a tropical vacation, provided you've lived your life right. In The Sims 3's "Supernatural" expansion pack, zombies will climb their way onto your lawn during a full moon, and occasionally bring along a stereo for them to dance along to spooky music. |
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The Dead Can Dance / int_6f76d71a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_6f76d71a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Sims (Video Game) | hasFeature |
The Dead Can Dance / int_6f76d71a | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_73dd9764 | type |
The Dead Can Dance | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_73dd9764 | comment |
Michael Jackson's Thriller is probably the most famous example in music. His later song "Ghosts" pulls it off as well, though through a well less known degree. |
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The Dead Can Dance / int_73dd9764 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_73dd9764 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Michael Jackson's Thriller (Music) | hasFeature |
The Dead Can Dance / int_73dd9764 | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_742af508 | type |
The Dead Can Dance | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_742af508 | comment |
Referenced in the title and an in-game poem in Grim Fandango, but only as a metaphor.# "In life his skin was sweet as mango / when I held him to my breast / but now we dance this Grim Fandango / and will for years before we rest..." |
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The Dead Can Dance / int_742af508 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_742af508 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Grim Fandango (Video Game) | hasFeature |
The Dead Can Dance / int_742af508 | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_7482155 | type |
The Dead Can Dance | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_7482155 | comment |
The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad: According to the ditty sung by Brom Bones in Disney's animated version of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, the reason for the Headless Horseman being so vicious is because he's so scary even the other spooks don't want him around, and they won't let him come to their parties. | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_7482155 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_7482155 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad | hasFeature |
The Dead Can Dance / int_7482155 | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_74ce3b5b | type |
The Dead Can Dance | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_74ce3b5b | comment |
Beetlejuice (as you might expect) ends with a dance number featuring a living prima donna supported by a team of ghostly footballers. | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_74ce3b5b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_74ce3b5b | featureConfidence |
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Beetlejuice | hasFeature |
The Dead Can Dance / int_74ce3b5b | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_74f7210c | type |
The Dead Can Dance | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_74f7210c | comment |
The Legend of Zelda In The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Bongo-Bongo, the boss of the Shadow Temple, beats his hands on the arena in a steady rhythm. What's the arena? A giant drum. In The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, the Redeads in Ikana Castle will start dancing (either an endless pirouette or That Russian Squat Dance) if you put on the Captain's Hat, Gibdo Mask, or Garo Hood. There's also Kamaro, the ghost of a dancer who regrets that he never got to teach his dance to anyone before he died. |
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The Dead Can Dance / int_74f7210c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_74f7210c | featureConfidence |
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The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) | hasFeature |
The Dead Can Dance / int_74f7210c | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_74fb318c | type |
The Dead Can Dance | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_74fb318c | comment |
The Rules of the Game has an actual danse macabre. | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_74fb318c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_74fb318c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Rules of the Game | hasFeature |
The Dead Can Dance / int_74fb318c | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_753491f7 | type |
The Dead Can Dance | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_753491f7 | comment |
The "Night on Bald Mountain" segment of Disney's Fantasia features dead spirits dancing and cavorting. | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_753491f7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_753491f7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Fantasia | hasFeature |
The Dead Can Dance / int_753491f7 | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_7c3e0841 | type |
The Dead Can Dance | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_7c3e0841 | comment |
El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera: The zombies in Miracle City are highly offended when El Tigre tells them they can't dance. They then prove to him how wrong he is with a spectacular dance number in no way reminiscent of Thriller. | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_7c3e0841 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_7c3e0841 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera | hasFeature |
The Dead Can Dance / int_7c3e0841 | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_7cd16efe | type |
The Dead Can Dance | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_7cd16efe | comment |
When Good Ghouls Go Bad was a made for TV Halloween movie by R.L. Stine, the dead rise from the grave on the night of Halloween and everybody thinks it's a Zombie Apocalypse. But no, it's just the reanimated corpse of a goth kid from the 1980s who wants to finally display his statue celebrating Halloween and then have an undead dance festival. Really. | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_7cd16efe | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_7cd16efe | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
When Good Ghouls Go Bad | hasFeature |
The Dead Can Dance / int_7cd16efe | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_7db52f7e | type |
The Dead Can Dance | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_7db52f7e | comment |
Elisabeth: The dead do dance in "Alle tanzen mit dem Tod" ("Everyone Has Danced With Death"), and it's implied that the company - including Lucheni, the narrator - are either ghosts or the reanimated dead, used to tell the story; in several scenes where there is a pause, background characters typically slump down on the spot, looking like discarded corpses. | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_7db52f7e | featureApplicability |
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The Dead Can Dance / int_7db52f7e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Elisabeth (Theatre) | hasFeature |
The Dead Can Dance / int_7db52f7e | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_7e16bd87 | type |
The Dead Can Dance | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_7e16bd87 | comment |
Sound Horizon will have you know that Thanatos, dour god of death or no, is not against a good dance party. In addition, since the album following that one, Marchen, was effectively a Concept Album all about revenge from beyond the grave, this trope was perhaps inevitable in the live performance of it. It's particularly pronounced in "A Fairytale of Light and Darkness" and "The Song of Dusk." |
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The Dead Can Dance / int_7e16bd87 | featureApplicability |
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The Dead Can Dance / int_7e16bd87 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Sound Horizon (Music) | hasFeature |
The Dead Can Dance / int_7e16bd87 | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_8546b09c | type |
The Dead Can Dance | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_8546b09c | comment |
Pixelface: In "Bored to Undeath", the characters end up luring the zombies out of the console by running them through Kiki's dance training routine, then have Aethelwynne lead them Pied Piper-style with a portable stereo as they dance to Michael Jackson's "Thriller". | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_8546b09c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_8546b09c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pixelface | hasFeature |
The Dead Can Dance / int_8546b09c | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_8615a431 | type |
The Dead Can Dance | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_8615a431 | comment |
His later song "Ghosts" pulls it off as well, though through a well less known degree. | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_8615a431 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_8615a431 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Michael Jackson's Ghosts | hasFeature |
The Dead Can Dance / int_8615a431 | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_86616534 | type |
The Dead Can Dance | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_86616534 | comment |
One of the playable characters in Bust a Groove 2 is Bi-O, a zombie who could do Thriller-esque moves. | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_86616534 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_86616534 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Bust a Groove (Video Game) | hasFeature |
The Dead Can Dance / int_86616534 | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_8a74b3f8 | type |
The Dead Can Dance | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_8a74b3f8 | comment |
The song "When the Night Wind Howls" from Ruddigore, performed by a chorus of ghosts. | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_8a74b3f8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_8a74b3f8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Ruddigore (Theatre) | hasFeature |
The Dead Can Dance / int_8a74b3f8 | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_8d8157e0 | type |
The Dead Can Dance | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_8d8157e0 | comment |
In Lexx, "the dead do not enjoy dancing"... until they're transformed into actual epileptic trees. Then they cheerfully sway back and forth, praising Oberon the Fairy King to the tune of "Row, Row, Row Your Boat." It's Lexx. | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_8d8157e0 | featureApplicability |
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The Dead Can Dance / int_8d8157e0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Lexx | hasFeature |
The Dead Can Dance / int_8d8157e0 | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_8f81923 | type |
The Dead Can Dance | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_8f81923 | comment |
"Move Your Dead Bones," a song from the movie Beyond Re-Animator. Both the original video and Zarla's popular flash cartoon feature this. | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_8f81923 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_8f81923 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Beyond Re-Animator | hasFeature |
The Dead Can Dance / int_8f81923 | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_9096e12c | type |
The Dead Can Dance | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_9096e12c | comment |
Played for horror in Carnivà le when a female carnie is murdered so the ghosts of the miners haunting a town can have someone to dance with. | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_9096e12c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_9096e12c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Carnivàle | hasFeature |
The Dead Can Dance / int_9096e12c | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_92a56bcb | type |
The Dead Can Dance | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_92a56bcb | comment |
The Masters of Horror episode, "Dance of the Dead", written by Richard Matheson and based on his short story above. | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_92a56bcb | featureApplicability |
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The Dead Can Dance / int_92a56bcb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Masters of Horror | hasFeature |
The Dead Can Dance / int_92a56bcb | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_9d8c87d8 | type |
The Dead Can Dance | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_9d8c87d8 | comment |
In Weekend at Bernie's II, despite being dead, Bernie dances when he hears music as the result of a voodoo spell. | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_9d8c87d8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_9d8c87d8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Weekend at Bernie's | hasFeature |
The Dead Can Dance / int_9d8c87d8 | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_9e2f90f4 | type |
The Dead Can Dance | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_9e2f90f4 | comment |
One Piece: Brook, natch. Much of the Thriller Bark arc, actually. In particular the zombie hordes of Thriller Bark and their "Zombie Night" disco number. |
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The Dead Can Dance / int_9e2f90f4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_9e2f90f4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
One Piece (Manga) | hasFeature |
The Dead Can Dance / int_9e2f90f4 | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_9efef3b9 | type |
The Dead Can Dance | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_9efef3b9 | comment |
Shrek: The Musical: During the song "Donkey Pot Pie", the remains of Dragon's previous victims get up to dance with Donkey. | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_9efef3b9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_9efef3b9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Shrek: The Musical (Theatre) | hasFeature |
The Dead Can Dance / int_9efef3b9 | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_9f89a5f0 | type |
The Dead Can Dance | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_9f89a5f0 | comment |
Played somewhat straight in Pokémon, because a number of Ghost-type monsters can learn the moves Swords Dance and/or Rain Dance. | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_9f89a5f0 | featureApplicability |
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The Dead Can Dance / int_9f89a5f0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pokémon (Franchise) | hasFeature |
The Dead Can Dance / int_9f89a5f0 | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_a2f5534c | type |
The Dead Can Dance | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_a2f5534c | comment |
In King's Quest VI you can enter the Underworld and play a bone xylophone to make all of the demons dance, including some skeletons doing a chorus line! See it in all its glory here! | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_a2f5534c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_a2f5534c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
KingsQuestVI | hasFeature |
The Dead Can Dance / int_a2f5534c | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_a4efd5fd | type |
The Dead Can Dance | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_a4efd5fd | comment |
In Carnival of Souls, the protagonist discovers that the footloose dead take the loss of their dance partners SERIOUSLY. Shudder. | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_a4efd5fd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_a4efd5fd | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Carnival of Souls | hasFeature |
The Dead Can Dance / int_a4efd5fd | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_a67926bf | type |
The Dead Can Dance | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_a67926bf | comment |
The Dancing Zombies boss in Monster Party. | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_a67926bf | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_a67926bf | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Monster Party (Video Game) | hasFeature |
The Dead Can Dance / int_a67926bf | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_a825da3e | type |
The Dead Can Dance | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_a825da3e | comment |
Magic: The Gathering has a card named Dance of the Dead, which raises a creature from the grave. Also, the much more unsettling card, Macabre Waltz. "All dead move to the hollow rhythm of necromancy." Death's Duet is yet another. "Life has always been a dance. It is only fitting that death sing the tune." Despite the flavor text, the card art depicts two nearly skeletal zombies dancing. |
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The Dead Can Dance / int_a825da3e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_a825da3e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Magic: The Gathering (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
The Dead Can Dance / int_a825da3e | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_a88418fd | type |
The Dead Can Dance | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_a88418fd | comment |
In Stephen Sondheim's version of The Frogs, Dionysus is surprised at how much dancing the dead do. Hades agrees "We do a lot of that down here." The chorus explains further: | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_a88418fd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_a88418fd | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Stephen Sondheim (Music) | hasFeature |
The Dead Can Dance / int_a88418fd | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_ac4df2b1 | type |
The Dead Can Dance | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_ac4df2b1 | comment |
The Third Saturday In October Part V: Jack Harding, the implacable undead killer, tends to dance around in mute celebration after his kills. | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_ac4df2b1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_ac4df2b1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Third Saturday In October Part V | hasFeature |
The Dead Can Dance / int_ac4df2b1 | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_acb2f4d3 | type |
The Dead Can Dance | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_acb2f4d3 | comment |
Judge Dredd: Dredd vs. Death: In the Mega Mall level, there's a hilarious bit in the nightclub where the zombies are ignoring the people trapped inside and happily dancing to the music as long as you don't disturb them. | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_acb2f4d3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_acb2f4d3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Judge Dredd: Dredd vs. Death (Video Game) | hasFeature |
The Dead Can Dance / int_acb2f4d3 | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_adf4e69 | type |
The Dead Can Dance | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_adf4e69 | comment |
Every episode of Strangers with Candy would end with everyone in the episode dancing happily, and the series finale, after Jerri and the teachers rioted and destroyed the school, was no different. Except everyone was looking a little translucent this time. | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_adf4e69 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_adf4e69 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Strangers with Candy | hasFeature |
The Dead Can Dance / int_adf4e69 | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_ae050a9f | type |
The Dead Can Dance | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_ae050a9f | comment |
In The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Bongo-Bongo, the boss of the Shadow Temple, beats his hands on the arena in a steady rhythm. What's the arena? A giant drum. | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_ae050a9f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_ae050a9f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time / Videogame | hasFeature |
The Dead Can Dance / int_ae050a9f | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_af05da7 | type |
The Dead Can Dance | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_af05da7 | comment |
In The Seventh Seal: The final scenes of the movie depict Death himself leading all those who died in the movie in a Dance Macabre into what-comes-next. | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_af05da7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_af05da7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Seventh Seal | hasFeature |
The Dead Can Dance / int_af05da7 | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_af925ef9 | type |
The Dead Can Dance | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_af925ef9 | comment |
Not the intended use (Zantetsuken Reverse): The first chapter mentions the existence of ghost dancers. | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_af925ef9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_af925ef9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Not the intended use (Zantetsuken Reverse) (Fanfic) | hasFeature |
The Dead Can Dance / int_af925ef9 | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_b0fcce7 | type |
The Dead Can Dance | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_b0fcce7 | comment |
And in The Movie, what does Lothos want to do on the night he and his minions finally launch their full-scale assault on Hemery High? He wants to "dahnce! AH-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HAAA!" (And sure enough, the school dance features - among other things - a vampire deejay playing Heavy Metal records.) | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_b0fcce7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_b0fcce7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Buffy the Vampire Slayer | hasFeature |
The Dead Can Dance / int_b0fcce7 | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_b1d8c295 | type |
The Dead Can Dance | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_b1d8c295 | comment |
The Dancing Zombie from Plants vs. Zombies summons a quartet of "backup dancer" mooks to guard him as they boogie toward your front lawn. Also in that game, if you grow the Tree of Wisdom high enough, it will unlock a cheat code of "dance" that makes several classes of zombie "dance" toward your position instead of walking. |
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The Dead Can Dance / int_b1d8c295 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_b1d8c295 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Plants vs. Zombies (Video Game) | hasFeature |
The Dead Can Dance / int_b1d8c295 | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_b2c6c7a4 | type |
The Dead Can Dance | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_b2c6c7a4 | comment |
Mori Calliope's music awakens a dead corpse already buried in the ground in "The Grim Reaper Is A Live-Streamer's" MV, whose hand arises out of it's grave just to jam out. She's heavily implied to be none other than Kureiji Ollie of the Indonesian branch of Hololive, who's been known to twerk on occasion. Her fans, Dead Beats, in general, are represented as reanimated skeletons, who naturally "dance anyway, 'cause it's human nature". | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_b2c6c7a4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_b2c6c7a4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
hololive (Web Animation) | hasFeature |
The Dead Can Dance / int_b2c6c7a4 | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_b35adcc8 | type |
The Dead Can Dance | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_b35adcc8 | comment |
The third game also has a bunch of breakdancing Goobs who back up DJ Phantasmagloria in her encounter. | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_b35adcc8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_b35adcc8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Luigi's Mansion 3 (Video Game) | hasFeature |
The Dead Can Dance / int_b35adcc8 | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_b36a8308 | type |
The Dead Can Dance | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_b36a8308 | comment |
In Fido, a living woman and her family's pet zombie share a dance set to the Squirrel Nut Zippers' "Put a Lid On It". | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_b36a8308 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_b36a8308 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Fido | hasFeature |
The Dead Can Dance / int_b36a8308 | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_b39c0eac | type |
The Dead Can Dance | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_b39c0eac | comment |
Clash of Clans: In the Hammer Jam promotional video, there are skeletons that are seen breakdancing. | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_b39c0eac | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_b39c0eac | featureConfidence |
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Clash of Clans (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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The Dead Can Dance / int_b3b59d72 | type |
The Dead Can Dance | |
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The ghosts of their ancestors in The Addams Family musical. | |
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The Addams Family (Theatre) | hasFeature |
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The Dead Can Dance / int_b5c06d08 | type |
The Dead Can Dance | |
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The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living And Became Mixed Up Zombies is a musical with zombie dance numbers. Except they're not really zombies, and... oh, just read the movie's page. | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_b5c06d08 | featureApplicability |
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The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies | hasFeature |
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The Dead Can Dance / int_b66371ca | type |
The Dead Can Dance | |
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Deep inside a castle in The Bard's Tale, you run into two groups of zombies having a dance-off. The moment they notice you, however, they drop everything to fight you. | |
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The Bard's Tale (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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The Dead Can Dance / int_bc320089 | type |
The Dead Can Dance | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_bc320089 | comment |
Atmosfear: The music video for "Thrill Me" features several dancing skeletons busting moves in the background. | |
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Atmosfear (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
The Dead Can Dance / int_bc320089 | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_bd660d0a | type |
The Dead Can Dance | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_bd660d0a | comment |
In "The Mad Doctor", dancing skeletons are one of the strange and alarming sights Mickey encounters when travelling through the Doctor's lair. | |
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The Mad Doctor | hasFeature |
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The Dead Can Dance / int_be720e78 | type |
The Dead Can Dance | |
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In an early version of the trope, in the 1932 Betty Boop episode, "Minnie the Moocher", Betty runs away from home and discovers singing and dancing ghosts and skeletons. Also "Betty Boop's Museum" has dancing skeletons from the museum exhibits. |
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Betty Boop | hasFeature |
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The Dead Can Dance / int_beac6ffb | type |
The Dead Can Dance | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_beac6ffb | comment |
In The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, the Redeads in Ikana Castle will start dancing (either an endless pirouette or That Russian Squat Dance) if you put on the Captain's Hat, Gibdo Mask, or Garo Hood. There's also Kamaro, the ghost of a dancer who regrets that he never got to teach his dance to anyone before he died. |
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The Dead Can Dance / int_beac6ffb | featureApplicability |
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The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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The Dead Can Dance / int_bff01809 | type |
The Dead Can Dance | |
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There's also a short story set in the Warhammer world called Totentanz, in which a Liche ( one of the Nine Lords of Nagash) has a wager with an Arabyan vizier as to who dances better, a living human (performing the Dance of Seven Veils), or the chosen wights of the Liche who dance to a chamade, and all join in... | |
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Warhammer (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
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The Dead Can Dance / int_c2297a9c | type |
The Dead Can Dance | |
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Judge Dredd: During the "Judgment Day" arc, the Necromancer villain Sabbat creates a bunch of zombie Elite Mooks who proceed to attack Judge Dredd's strike team while dancing and singing about how they love murder. | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_c2297a9c | featureApplicability |
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Judge Dredd (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
The Dead Can Dance / int_c2297a9c | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_c5b4417 | type |
The Dead Can Dance | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_c5b4417 | comment |
Mr. Bones was a Sega Saturn platformer/rhythm game about a skeleton army raised by an evil necromancer. The only one not under his sway is the titular Mr. Bones, the resurrected corpse of a blues musician who is free from the mind control because he has music in his soul. The object of the game is to get through the haunted woods and put on a music and dance show that puts music in the souls of the other skeletons to free them. | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_c5b4417 | featureApplicability |
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Mr. Bones (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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The Dead Can Dance / int_c5eaa1a9 | type |
The Dead Can Dance | |
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Beetlejuice loves to dance. He and his best friend Lydia dance in several episodes, including the pilot, and quite often while levitating. | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_c5eaa1a9 | featureApplicability |
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Beetlejuice | hasFeature |
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The Dead Can Dance / int_ccc78eed | type |
The Dead Can Dance | |
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Also "Betty Boop's Museum" has dancing skeletons from the museum exhibits. | |
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Betty Boop's Museum | hasFeature |
The Dead Can Dance / int_ccc78eed | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_ce052e51 | type |
The Dead Can Dance | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_ce052e51 | comment |
Spellbreaker has an encounter where you stumble across a bunch of dancing skeletons in a graveyard who wants you to join them. And make you one of their members. | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_ce052e51 | featureApplicability |
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Spellbreaker | hasFeature |
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The Dead Can Dance / int_d11c45fe | type |
The Dead Can Dance | |
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In Jasper in Deadland, a lot of souls spend most of their time partying and/or dancing. Gretchen explains that they mostly do it as a distraction to avoid going insane. | |
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Jasper in Deadland (Theatre) | hasFeature |
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The Dead Can Dance / int_d402488d | type |
The Dead Can Dance | |
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The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run: The song that introduces El Diablo has the zombies performing a number with Snoop Dogg rapping. | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_d402488d | featureApplicability |
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The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run | hasFeature |
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The Dead Can Dance / int_d43cbccb | type |
The Dead Can Dance | |
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Luigi's Mansion: Floating Whirlindas. They're just dancing and minding their own business... VACUUM TIME! The third game also has a bunch of breakdancing Goobs who back up DJ Phantasmagloria in her encounter. |
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The Dead Can Dance / int_d43cbccb | featureApplicability |
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Luigi's Mansion (Video Game) | hasFeature |
The Dead Can Dance / int_d43cbccb | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_d494343b | type |
The Dead Can Dance | |
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Iron Maiden's "Dance of Death" has a narrator speak of their experience joining in a festival straight out of the medieval Danse Macabre archetype. Given the band's penchant for literary, historical, and musical references, it's a good bet they were well aware of Saint-Saëns's piece. Avenged Sevenfold's "Dancing Dead" describes a similar scene. Interestingly, on the same album, they cover an Iron Maiden song ("Flash of the Blade"), and A 7 X is also very fond of academic, literary, and biblical references. |
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The Dead Can Dance / int_d494343b | featureApplicability |
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Iron Maiden (Music) | hasFeature |
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The Dead Can Dance / int_d8d45f38 | type |
The Dead Can Dance | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_d8d45f38 | comment |
Zunzunkyou No Yabou have dancing skeleton enemies in the desert level, who initially starts off as human but requires multiple hits to kill, your first hit removing all their skin and flesh - but they will continue attacking as a dancing skeleton. | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_d8d45f38 | featureApplicability |
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Zunzunkyou No Yabou (Video Game) | hasFeature |
The Dead Can Dance / int_d8d45f38 | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_d9c602eb | type |
The Dead Can Dance | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_d9c602eb | comment |
In the early South Park episode "Pinkeye", the boys find themselves cornered by the marauding zombies of the townspeople... who then start dancing in a Thriller parody while Chef sings about how he will make sweet love even when he's dead. | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_d9c602eb | featureApplicability |
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South Park | hasFeature |
The Dead Can Dance / int_d9c602eb | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_da92c130 | type |
The Dead Can Dance | |
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Erfworld: Uncroaked dancefighting. To "Thriller", naturally. | |
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Erfworld (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
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The Dead Can Dance / int_dc54d55b | type |
The Dead Can Dance | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_dc54d55b | comment |
Dancing ghouls appear in the "Thriller" sequences of both Michael Jackson: The Immortal World Tour and Michael Jackson: ONE. | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_dc54d55b | featureApplicability |
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Michael Jackson The Immortal World Tour (Theatre) | hasFeature |
The Dead Can Dance / int_dc54d55b | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_e293455a | type |
The Dead Can Dance | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_e293455a | comment |
Vampires dance in Buffy the Vampire Slayer's musical episode. And in The Movie, what does Lothos want to do on the night he and his minions finally launch their full-scale assault on Hemery High? He wants to "dahnce! AH-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HAAA!" (And sure enough, the school dance features - among other things - a vampire deejay playing Heavy Metal records.) Angel also dances, horribly, in a mental scene. Wesley also dances in the same episode, equally horribly. But he's human. |
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The Dead Can Dance / int_e293455a | featureApplicability |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer | hasFeature |
The Dead Can Dance / int_e293455a | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_e2da80c2 | type |
The Dead Can Dance | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_e2da80c2 | comment |
The theme song for the anime adaptation of Hakaba Kitarō, "Mononoke Dance", talks about ghosts and youkai dancing. | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_e2da80c2 | featureApplicability |
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Hakaba Kitarō (Manga) | hasFeature |
The Dead Can Dance / int_e2da80c2 | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_e605dad8 | type |
The Dead Can Dance | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_e605dad8 | comment |
Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage! has a mission where you must collect all these bones to repair a caveman's skeleton friend. Once you collect them all he gives you an Orb and the skeleton forms together and dances. A similar mission also appears in Spyro: Year of the Dragon. | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_e605dad8 | featureApplicability |
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Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage! (Video Game) | hasFeature |
The Dead Can Dance / int_e605dad8 | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_ead7c180 | type |
The Dead Can Dance | |
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In one of the books in the The Hollows series, Piscary's Pizzaria is turned into a vampire dance club. | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_ead7c180 | featureApplicability |
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The Hollows | hasFeature |
The Dead Can Dance / int_ead7c180 | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_eb3eebd9 | type |
The Dead Can Dance | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_eb3eebd9 | comment |
In Shredder Orpheus, Orpheus's hard-rock music energizes the previously sedate Underworld inhabitants to headbang and dance along. | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_eb3eebd9 | featureApplicability |
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Shredder Orpheus | hasFeature |
The Dead Can Dance / int_eb3eebd9 | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_ec2531c4 | type |
The Dead Can Dance | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_ec2531c4 | comment |
Coco: The Frida Kahlo dancers rehearse and then perform on stage at the Sunrise Spectacular. Héctor kicks up his heels after Dante pushes him on stage during "Un Poco Loco". The huge crowd at Ernesto's grande Fiesta in his tower are dancing. Imelda dances while singing "La Llorona" to evade Ernesto and Ernesto joins her. The reunited Imelda and Héctor dance a waltz together as Miguel sings "Proud Corazón". |
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Coco | hasFeature |
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The Dead Can Dance / int_f02ba81a | type |
The Dead Can Dance | |
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In The Fearless Vampire Killers, Count von Krolock throws an elaborate ball for the previous generations of vampires. All of the vampires on the dance floor are expert in the courtly dances, and the two humans Professor Abronsius and Alfred stick out like sore thumbs when they attempt to infiltrate the dance due to their clumsiness. | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_f02ba81a | featureApplicability |
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The Fearless Vampire Killers | hasFeature |
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The Dead Can Dance / int_f120845f | type |
The Dead Can Dance | |
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In Kingdom of Loathing, this is about half of what goes on in Spookyraven Manor's Haunted Ballroom. | |
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Kingdom of Loathing (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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The Dead Can Dance / int_f5d20aea | type |
The Dead Can Dance | |
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Discworld II opens with a song and dance routine performed by skeletons. | |
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Discworld II (Video Game) | hasFeature |
The Dead Can Dance / int_f5d20aea | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_fb57d4f2 | type |
The Dead Can Dance | |
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Zombie protagonist Ayumu in Is This A Zombie? has been shown on a couple occasions to be a surprisingly good breakdancer. | |
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Is This A Zombie? | hasFeature |
The Dead Can Dance / int_fb57d4f2 | |
The Dead Can Dance / int_fbc58609 | type |
The Dead Can Dance | |
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Similarly, The Nightmare Before Christmas has The Undead (along with all the other monsters) dancing, especially the protagonist Jack Skellington. | |
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The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
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