Line #80 Main/AngryMobSong


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7	[[caption-width-right:350: ''[[WitchHunt Wickedness must be punished!]]'']]
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9	->''"Raise the flag! Sing the song!\
10	Here we come, we're fifty strong,\
11	And fifty Frenchmen can't be wrong!\
12	Let's kill the Beast! Kill the Beast!"''
13	-->-- '''[[TorchesAndPitchforks The Mob]]''', "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCENkwPiuU0 The Mob Song]] (Kill The Beast)", ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast''
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15	Musical Theatre is SeriousBusiness. There's a lot of [[RuleofDrama drama]]. And given that it's musical theatre, it's intense drama with a great soundtrack. So logically the [[BurnTheWitch angry mob]] with TorchesAndPitchforks get their own CrowdSong about how much they want to BurnTheWitch If there's a public execution about to take place, you'll hear the same mob singing.
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17	LaResistance also commonly get their own song, which falls under this trope since a lot of revolutions in theatre are angry mobs with a political agenda. Expect this to sound like a military march, or at least have a fife and some snaredrums.
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19	Very rarely is it not a CrowdSong. It doesn't have to be a VillainSong, but it certainly often is.
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21	Compare RevengeBallad.
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26	[[folder:FanWorks]]
27	* "Serves Them Right" from the FanFic/CalvinAtCamp episode "Champion Charlie Brown."
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30	[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
31	* ''WesternAnimation/The3LittlePigsTheMovie'': While not exactly a full-fledged musical number, the dinner guests at ''The Inn of The Gentle Wolf'' get into a pretty decent rhythm when demanding a refund, after the [[CarnivoreConfusion main course]] of their [[DinnerTheatre dinner and a show]] [[spoiler: gets kidnapped]].
32	-->''"Money back! Money back! Or else we'll beat you blue and black!"''
33	* ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'': "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TunKoE88y4M The Mob Song]]", where a crowd of angry villagers wielding TorchesAndPitchforks sings about its intention to preemptively protect themselves from the Beast by killing it and Gaston goads them on to secure his own position of power. This is later parodied in ''WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse'', where it's referred to as "The Angry [[Music/VillagePeople Villager People]]".
34	-->''Let's slay the Beast tonight!''\
35	''Let's slay the Beast alright!''
36	* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyANewGeneration'': "Danger Danger", in which Sprout, the film's antagonist goes about whipping the ponies of Maretime Bay into an angry mob, with lyrics emphasizing the ponies giving into base emotions over logical thought and giving authority to the pony egging them on, such as "it's all gonna work out painlessly if you follow my orders brainlessly" and "this is no time for sober thinking".
37	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Pocahontas}}'': "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSu4hOLYrXk Savages]]", which includes the line "They're not like you and me, which means they must be evil! We must sound the drums of WAR!", sung by both sides at the same time.
38	* ''WesternAnimation/ThePrinceOfEgypt'': The slaves' part of "Deliver Us", in the way that "Look Down" from ''Theatre/LesMiserables'' is this; a desperate, bitter, pleading sort of anger.
39	* ''WesternAnimation/SouthParkBiggerLongerAndUncut'': "Blame Canada" & the kids' part of the "La Resistance'medley.
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42	[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
43	* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7Q9ZEdOLSE Hang the Bastard]]" from ''Film/CannibalTheMusical'', meant to sound as much as possible like a cheery old-school-style excuse-to-dance number.
44	* The ''{{Dracula}}'' puppet musical from ''Film/ForgettingSarahMarshall'' features an angry mob chorus during the final song.
45	* In ''Film/TheLadiesMan'', after finding out that Leon is the one who slept with their wives, a formerly depressed mob is so glad to have a new goal that they cheerfully dance through the city on their way to his workplace while singing about their plan to castrate & kill him.
46	* Film/LesMiserables2012: From the convicts' opening lines in "Overture", through "Do You Hear the People Sing?" and "Empty Chairs, Empty Tables".
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50	* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYYbNHdzGe0 Poor Slobs With Terrible Jobs]]" from ''Series/{{Dinosaurs}}'', about the disatisfaction the WESAYSO workers feel with their jobs.
51	* Parodied in ''Series/{{Galavant}}'', Sid rallies the peasants to revolt, and leads them in an Angry Mob Song. Unfortunately, it's focused entirely on how valiantly they will [[GoYeHeroesGoAndDie die fighting the royalty]]. By the time he's done, everyone has abandoned him.
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55	[[folder:Music]]
56	* ''Music/StJohnPassion'': The chorus represents the crowd demanding Jesus' death. There are some angry choral sequences in response to Pilate's unwillingness to prosecute Jesus, and later there's a chorus consisting of "Kreuzige" ("Crucify") in polyphonic 4 part harmony.
57	* Somewhat subverted by Black Sabbath's "Iron Man". The song is from the perspective of a rejected hero who turns against the people he once tried to save (but who rejected him).
58	* "White Riot" by Music/TheClash.
59	* ''Raise the Black Flag'' from ''Music/FoodForTheGods'' by Music/{{Fireaxe}}.
60	* "The Rise of Abimelech Dumont" by the Gravel Pit features an angry mob trying to overthrow the man who's taken over the town. [[spoiler: They all get shot to death.]]
61	* "Execute" from ''[[Music/{{Hero}} !HERO: The Rock Opera]]'', which ends with Hero's crucifixion.
62	* The satirical song "The Angry Mob" by the Music/KaiserChiefs is about a middle class angry mob getting riled up by things reported in the British press.
63	* Music/TheMountainGoats:
64	** "If You See Light" by is an interesting version - it's from the perspective of the person against whom the mob is rallying.
65	** "Heretic Pride". While the narrator for "If You See Light" is frightened and desperately hiding from the mob trying to tear down the door, the narrator to "Heretic Pride" laughs and promises the crowd a reckoning.
66	* In Music/TheProtomen, an angry mob tries to lynch Dr. Light, on Dr. Wily's behest. Notable in that Light has been found innocent of murder and they ''still'' want to kill him.
67	** The song in question is titled, quite appropriately, "Give Us the Rope".
68	* "Burn The Witch" by Queens of the Stone Age. At least until the [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge halfway-point]].
69	%%* "Blitzkrieg Bop" by the Music/{{Ramones}} from ''Music/{{Ramones\|Album}}''.
70	* Dark folk artist Reverend Glasseye is especially fond of this trope, having more than a few across his three albums. Notable tales include a song about man who incites a crowd to lynch the man courting his daughter ("Mother's a Carpegian") and some religious zealots killing a man who won't provide him wood for their temples ("Black River Falls").
71	* "Witch Hunt" by Music/{{Rush\|Band}} is a typical example.
72	* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AlH2oYedfk Panic]]" by Music/TheSmiths.
73	* "We're Not Gonna Take It" by Music/{{Twisted Sister}}
74	* "Stakes and Torches" from Music/{{Voltaire}}'s album ''To the Bottom of the Sea'' is a mob song about the poor rising up to overthrow their leader, the Robber Baron.
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78	* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRVdwVJjf0M Christian Charity Reprise]]" and "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGgam8oqcHA More Blood/Kill the Bat Boy]]" from ''Theatre/BatBoyTheMusical'' are sung by the townspeople as they intimidate the town vet into preventing Bat Boy from attending a revival meeting and get riled into a homicidal frenzy, respectively.
79	* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QL5Tw9DuP6A The Chase]]" from ''Theatre/{{Brigadoon}}''. The townspeople aren't intending to kill Harry Beaton, only to prevent him from leaving Brigadoon and condemning the town to vanish forever. Unfortunately, Harry meets DeathByFallingOver.
80	* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg_k8UkjTrs Deep in the Darkest Night]]" from ''Theatre/{{Dracula\|2001}}''. An exception, in that (depending on the production), it may be a crowd song sung by the angry mob, or a solo song that Jonathan Harker sings to the angry mob. A further exception is that, rather than being a dark song about how much the angry mob wants the titular Count dead, its actually a heroic, inspiring song, bordering on ThemeMusicPowerup.
81	* The operatic version of ''Theatre/TheEmperorJones'' frames the first scene with choruses of angry natives chanting for the death of the title character. No pitchforks here, though; only a SilverBullet will do.
82	* ''Theatre/{{Frozen}}'' has "Monster", in which Elsa tries to wrestle with the consequences of her actions - and even [[DrivenToSuicide contemplates killing herself to end the sudden winter]] - while the Arendellians march on her ice castle to capture - and possibly kill - her (although, to his credit, Hans does tell them to capture her alive).
83	* The last act of Giacomo Meyerbeer's opera ''Theatre/LesHuguenots'', featuring the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre, has the Assassins' Chorus, "Abjurez, Huguenots, le ciel l'ordonne" (Repent, Huguenots, Heaven ordains it).
84	* The short-lived ScreenToStageAdaptation of ''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame\|Disney}}'' had the act one finale "Esmerelda", which culminated in Frollo basically tearing Paris apart to find the gypsy girl.
85	* "The Arrest" and "Trial Before Pilate" in ''Theatre/JesusChristSuperstar'' include parts of angry mob singing about how they "got him" and demanding "Crucify him!" from Pilate.
86	* "Kill Your Own Kind" from ''Theatre/{{Lestat}}'', in which the entire population of the Theatre des Vampires, lead by Armand, condemn Claudia to death for her [[spoiler: attempted]] murder of Lestat himself.
87	* ''Theatre/TheLikesOfUs'', the little-known first-ever Webber/Rice musical, has two: "Hold a March" and "We'll Get Him". The latter is also reprised. Both are sung by crowds of displeased Londoners who think Thomas Barnardo is an interfering prat.
88	* In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdHxnBsuqv4 "Passió"]] in the Hungarian rock opera ''Mária evangéliuma'' (Gospel of Mary), the mob shouts "Crucify him!" and yells at Mary, and John comments on it.
89	* ''Theatre/MartinGuerre'' had a "knife dance" in the original version, cut in the rewrites. Also, the part of "Justice Will Be Done/I Will Make You Proud" sung by the villagers.
90	* French (wannabe) Revolutionaries once again get their own song in ''Theatre/LesMiserables'': "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwM8fSDsgLI Do You Hear the People Sing?]]"
91	-->"The blood of the martyrs will water the meadows of France!"
92	** "Look Down" Though not so much an Angry Mob Song than a resigned, bitter Mob Song with angry tones about the long, dreading years of prison sentence.
93	** The reprise of "Look Down" is often staged as this, although nowhere moreso than in the [[Film/LesMiserables2012 2012 film adaptation]], as seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0IddaWYvQA here]].
94	** The act one finale, "One Day More", is set the night before the June Rebellion, and naturally features the revolutionaries riling up the people in preparation for the revolution to come. [[spoiler:The fact that history calls it a rebellion, and not a revolution, should tell you how well it goes for them.]]
95	* "Catch Hatch," a MassiveMultiplayerEnsembleNumber from ''Theatre/OneTouchOfVenus''.
96	* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mN_kTxdq8VY Where will you stand when the flood comes]]?" from ''Theatre/{{Parade\|1998}}'', in which the demented evangelist Tom Watson whips up hatred and violence against local Jews (sadly, this is BasedOnATrueStory).
97	* "In the Hall of the Mountain King" from ''Theatre/PeerGynt'', though the instrumental suite version is more familiar, originally had a chorus of trolls shouting, "Kill him!"
98	* "Now is gossip put on trial" and "Who holds himself apart" from Benjamin Britten's opera ''Theatre/PeterGrimes''.
99	* The extended climax of ''Theatre/ThePhantomOfTheOpera'' includes a mob pursuing the Phantom in "Track Down This Murderer", a reprise of the title song with significantly different lyrics.
100	* In ''Theatre/RevoltuionFrancaise'' there are "A Bas Tous Les Privaleges" sung mostly by Danton, and "Retour A La Bastille"
101	* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kxQpaH05ko Madame Guillotine]]" is the theme song of radical Parisian revolutionaries in ''Theatre/TheScarletPimpernel''.
102	* The ScreenToStageAdaptation of ''Film/SevenBridesForSevenBrothers'' has "The Townspeople's Lament", which is actually a ToThePain style description of what the angry townspeople wish to do to the titular brothers.
103	* In ''Theatre/SpringAwakening'', Melchior and the other schoolchildren sing : "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIx7yW9FMfw Totally Fucked]]" after Melchior [[spoiler:is expelled for writing an essay about sex.]]
104	-->"Totally fucked, will they mess you up? Well, you know they're gonna try!"
105	* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqmC1T9rukk We're Not Gonna Take It/See Me, Feel Me]]" from ''Music/{{Tommy}}''.
106	* "Gira la cote" from the opera ''Theatre/{{Turandot}}'', sung by a mob breathlessly anticipating a beheading.
107	* ''Theatre/{{Urinetown}}'':
108	** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwRJiwGZkuI Look at the Sky]]" (and to a lesser extent, "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6umc1BI6FnE We're Not Sorry]]").
109	** The truest Angry Mob Song song is "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZztJfoTNpA&feature=related Snuff That Girl]]." It's a double threat: LaResistance actually gets the BurnTheWitch song!
110	* "Down with the Flowers of Progress!" in Creator/GilbertAndSullivan's ''[[Theatre/UtopiaLtd Utopia, Ltd.]]''
111	* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpaS2v-r7cE ensemble]] version of "Tonight" from ''Theatre/WestSideStory'', with each gang anticipating its revenge on the other.
112	* [[WitchHunt "March of the Witch Hunters"]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nhT0ZWP0A8 in]] ''Theatre/{{Wicked}}''.
113	* Variation: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVMjgHFSAec Guinevere]]" from ''Camelot,'' "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKydooBFnhg City On Fire]]" from ''Theatre/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet'', and "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8a6sfgelYOY City Under Siege]]" from ''Der Glöckner von Notre-Dame'' are more like choruses ''about'' angry mobs than the songs of the mobs themselves.
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117	* The second part of "In the Haven" from [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cU9MduXvaXQ Episode One]] of ''WebAnimation/OfWeaselsAndChickens'' where the Haven animals are insulting Marcus.
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121	* ''Webcomic/TwistedTropes'': The crowd gathers with TorchesAndPitchforks to get [[Film/Frankenstein1931 Frankenetsin's Monster]] to surrender, as a daily musical.
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124	[[folder:Western Animation]]
125	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Clarence}}'': In "The Tails of Mardrynia," Percy imagines the woodland animals he brought into his home singing "End the Boy," a parody of ''[[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast Beauty and the Beast's]]'' Mob Song as they go to attack Clarence.
126	* ''Franchise/MyLittlePony'':
127	** ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyAndFriends'': "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMWpCU2n2pM We're Gonna Make You Sorry]]" climaxes "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyAndFriendsE22BrightLights2 Bright Lights, Part 2]]". The residents of Graydale aren't happy with the return of former resident Knight Shade, since the DealWithTheDevil he made with the serial's villains allowed them to steal their shadows and render them sickly and miserable.
128	** ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': Combined with TheVillainSucksSong there's "Bats!" (aside from Fluttershy's part, where she defends the bats), where the main characters sing about their intention to run the fruit bats out of Applejack's orchard [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E7Bats in the episode of the same name]].
129	* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3XHyaG8VB0 Buford is in Trouble]]" from an episode of ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb''. [[BollywoodNerd Baljeet]] gets the ability to [[MesACrowd clone himself]], and soon the Baljeets descend into mob mentality to avenge themselves against the neighborhood bully.
130	* In ''WesternAnimation/PlutosJudgementDay'', the song "We've got Pluto!"
131	* Parodied with a bit of LyricalDissonance in the ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'' episode "Zanzibar". Rocko rallies the other citizens of O-Town against Conglom-O due to the latter's polluting practices, but they're cheery the entire time.
132	-->'''Rocko''': We demand to see the board of directors! \
133	'''Security Guard''': And you would be? \
134	'''Heffer''': We're a big unruly mob! \
135	'''Other Citizens''': (singing happily) We're a big unruly mob!
136	* ''Ready As I'll Ever Be'' from WesternAnimation/TangledTheSeries is a mob song where both sides sing about how "now the line's in the sand" as they prepare to go to battle with one another. Except the "mob" part only comes from the side of Cassandra as she rallies the soldiers to attack [[spoiler: Varian]].
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140	* RealLife French revolutionaries sang "Ah! ça ira, ça ira, ça ira...les aristocrates à la lanterne!"; or, roughly, "string 'em up!"
141	** The French national anthem, "La Marseillaise", started out this way too. Its lyrics are really bloodthirsty; it mentions a bloodstained banner on the ''fourth line'', and the chorus (y'know, the part that you repeat and actually remember) urges citizens to form up into battalions and kill their oppressors "until impure blood drenches our fields."
142	*** In similar vein, the rarely-sung third verse of ''The Star-Spangled Banner'' mentions that "their [i.e. the invaders'] blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution." (There's probably a reason it's rarely-sung.)
143	*** During UsefulNotes/RedOctober the Bolsheviks had their own version, called "Worker's Marseillaise".
144	* Horst-Wessel-Lied of the National Socialist party of Germany. The ''Die Fahne hoch'' became an unofficial Party anthem after the murder of Wessel and after the Nazi coup, an unofficial national song.
145	* Although it wasn't used until after the events of the protests, "Do You Hear the People Sing?" from ''Theatre/LesMiserables'' was sung by mourners at a vigil following Tienanmen Square.
146	** "Do You Hear the People Sing" is also popular amongst [[https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=do+you+hear+the+people+sing+hong+kong protesters in Hong Kong]].
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