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Describe The Power Of Rock Here, and THROW UP THE HORNS!!! In which the world is saved and the Big Bad defeated, not through The Power of Love or The Power of Friendship, but through ROCK!!! Yes, for some reason, music is the most capable form of creative expression when it comes to defeating the forces of evil. The battle often takes the form of a rock concert or music video. That in itself helps to explain why it's almost always music that saves the world. It'd take a very imaginative writer/director to defeat the villain with the power of Symbolism, also known as Modern Expressionism. Incidentally, it's only "The Power of Rock" because 99 percent of the time rock is the musical genre of choice for this trope. Rock tends to be loud and theatrical, and therefore more powerful. If the main character ever harnesses such power, expect them to do so with an electric guitar as their weapon of choice, in what is the musical instrument equivalent of Heroes Prefer Swords. As the examples below show, other kinds of music work too. Can also refer to the many, many works of fiction in which characters fight for their right to rock (or party, or dance, or whatever as long as it involves music). Expect any video game involving musicians to have the "rocking heroes fight Culture Police" plot. Seen quite a lot in shows that feature a literal Five-Man Band or a Fake Band, and associated performances. The weapon of choice of The Rock Star when he goes adventuring. Note: Not to be confused with Musical Assassin. This trope involves actual music playing that the audience can appreciate, not just characters playing instruments with the sonic power to kick ass. There are few game examples of The Power Of Rock outside of music-based games. Also not to be confused with Dishing Out Dirt or Gemstone Assault, which are about power over rocks. A form of Magic Music or Disco Tech. Compare Loud of War, Care-Bear Stare, The Power of Love, The Power of Friendship, Autobots, Rock Out!, A Little Something We Call "Rock and Roll", Great Balls of Fire!, Brown Note, Rock Me, Asmodeus!, Make Me Wanna Shout, Clap Your Hands If You Believe, Awesome Music. Contrast Sex, Drugs, and Rock & Roll. May be presented as a form of Cool and Unusual Punishment. |
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Rockin' with Judy Jetson, one of the made-for-television films of The Jetsons, has a Big Bad who is trying to destroy all music in the galaxy because she hates it so much. Even mentioning the word "music" causes her to have epileptic seizures. Naturally, Judy and her friends defeat the plan with rock music which causes the villain to have the aforementioned seizures which in turn causes her to accidentally sabotage her own space station. | |
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The lovable gang in RENT brings Mimi back from death by HIV, exposure and drugs through the power of song. | |
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Shrek the Third, when Snow White unleashes the power of Led Zeppelin's "Immigrant Song", causing the forest animals to attack the Huorns guarding the city gates. | |
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We Will Rock You! If you've guessed that the protagonists fight an oppressive government using the music of Queen, you win a cookie. The Big Bad of the show, Killer Queen, was defeated by having the band play an instrumental version of Tie Your Mother Down. |
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SCP Foundation: SCP-1987-J. A piece of sheet music which can be played, irrespective of any known ability to play the guitar or lack thereof, by anyone who knows how it is supposed to sound and has access to an electric guitar and amp (playing on any other instrument causes mild revulsion in onlookers). Playing causes apparently permanent effects, from the player simply appearing more attractive; through the spontaneous manifestation of various stage effects; vehicles in the area of effect being polymorphed into classic hot rods or muscle cars, motorcycles becoming custom bikes; female observers being regressed to around 18 years old, with 68% of cases also experiencing transmogrification of clothing into lingerie, G-string bikinis and leather fetish gear; manifestation of female 18-year-olds if none are present, as well as large quantities of alchohol, dinosaurs, dragons and female angels; resurrection or reanimation of nearby corpses; spontaneous pregnancies... However if played too long, a being known as SCP-1987-J-1 will appear, and demand you stop playing or challenge him to a guitar duel he calls an "Epic Rockdown of Rocktimate Rockstiny" for the title of "ultimate Rockness". Noone knows what that is, as noone has won, and the penalty for failure is being polymorphed into a middle-aged guy named Earl who works in a garage. These are now being classified as D-class, as there are far more of them than is needed for the site's motor pool. SCP-298, on the other hand, is a pipe organ which will literally drive the blood right out of your body. |
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Scooby-Doo! and KISS: Rock and Roll Mystery: Not only do all of the members of KISS have superpowers, at the climax, they use them extensively to fight the villain. | |
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The music video for Lindsey Stirling's "Moon Trance." There are not many places (internet or otherwise) where you can see a violin-wielding girl duking it out with breakdancing zombies on electric keyboards and drums. | |
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The Spongebob Squarepants Movie involves SpongeBob singing a Twisted Sister parody, all the while saving the citizens of Bikini Bottom from Plankton's control with his guitar. | |
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In Turning Red, the female members of the Lee family can transform into a red panda form. Because this ability can be quite inconvenient in modern society, there exists a ritual to seal it away, in which a major component involves people gathering in a circle around her and singing. It is stated that the lyrics themselves don't matter, only that whatever is sung is sung from the heart. When Ming unleashes her kaiju-sized panda form at a Boy Band concert, the singing of Mei and Ming's relatives and Mei's friends isn't enough to fully seal it away... but when the boy band themselves join the ritual, the Power of Teen Pop turns out to be the extra boost it needs. | |
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In Trolls World Tour, after it seems that Poppy completely destroyed music by destroying the strings, all the Trolls realize that music now comes from inside themselves. As this occurs, Poppy and the other tribe leaders get the entire crowd to start jamming out to "Just Sing", which results in Barb's Heel Faced Turn. | |
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In The Book of Joshua, the walls of Jericho fall after the Israelites march around the city for seven days blowing horns, "rock music" being Older Than Feudalism. The Clash referenced this in their songs "Jericho" and "The Sound of Sinners". | |
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In The Onion article "Clinton Threatens To Drop Da Bomb On Iraq," George Clinton threatens to "tear the roof off Baghdad" and liberate uptight Iraqi asses with the Power of Funk. The Mothership, 5,000 bop gunners and 2,500 Aquaboogie Amphibious Assault units are prepared for deployment. | |
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TV Tropes Roll To Dodge: Chaostryke is channeling it. More recently, and mildly, Xiphoniii, Demyx Style. | |
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In Trolls, the Trolls' music seems to have a bit of magic in it. When Poppy becomes so depressed that her color drains out, Branch brings hernote and all the other Trolls back to normal with "True Colors". The ending features a peppy song-and-dance number to Justin Timberlake's "Can't Stop The Feeling", that convinces the Bergens to not eat them anymore, and even revives the withered Troll Tree. In Trolls World Tour, after it seems that Poppy completely destroyed music by destroying the strings, all the Trolls realize that music now comes from inside themselves. As this occurs, Poppy and the other tribe leaders get the entire crowd to start jamming out to "Just Sing", which results in Barb's Heel Faced Turn. |
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The climax of Rock Dog has Bodi using Magic Music to peacefully subdue the wolves who have been trying to attack the residents of Sheep Mountain. | |
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A more realistic depiction in Thunderbirds: a series of bomber prototypes is being destroyed when a certain song is performed live over the radio, leading the heroes to believe that the signal may be interfering with the aircraft's systems. Lady Penelope talks to the band involved, who are frustrated that their manager keeps changing the song subtly between performances. She and Parker find he has a device Brains identifies as a Cham-cham, a computer which encodes information into the music. This allows him to reveal the prototype's location to an unfriendly nation, which scrambles fighters to take it down. Lady Penelope steps in as lead singer (the song was originally an instrumental) as the heroes modify the music to lure the fighters into friendly airspace where they will be shot down. | |
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Basically all of Nova 44 | |
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Magic: The Gathering has this with older enchantments' "verse counters", and with other cards like Glorious Anthem (and its green counterpart, Gaea's Anthem), Joraga Bard, Hymn to Tourach, and the like. Mostly music is seen as healing or inspiring others to go on. And yes, there was a Lotus Cobra is Evil cartoon about the Mirran-aligned planeswalkers forming a band because Mirrodin is a plane of metal. | |
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In Star Wreck V: Lost Contact, the Vulgars discover Earth after they hear a very powerful rock concert broadcast. | |
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The goblins and other creatures of the night in The Princess and the Goblin cannot stand music. They go mad having to hear it and will do anything to shut it out, but they aren't entirely helpless against it, so they can still will themselves through it if they must. | |
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The Remarkable Journey of Higgins von Higgings: Higgins von Higgings! Your incredible journey ends TODAY!! | |
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