| 1 | ->''"What you waiting, what you waiting, what you waiting, what you waiting, what you waiting for\ |
| 2 | Tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock, take your chance you stupid hoe."'' |
| 3 | -->-- '''Music/GwenStefani''', "''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdcObAQ5OOM What You Waiting For?]]'' |
| 4 | |
| 5 | This is when the music has ticking clock sound effects to it, or similar, such as instruments, metronome sounds, clicks, or even onomatopoeia. This is sometimes used to make you remember that, yes, time is running and to hasten the pace. |
| 6 | |
| 7 | Alternatively, the sound of a ticking clock can be used to symbolize the progression of time between verses, i.e. if the first verse is from the singer's perspective as a child or young person, the second verse will often be the singer's present-day viewpoint. |
| 8 | |
| 9 | Not to be confused with TickTockTerror, which is the use of various clock sound effects to create a creepy and/or oppressive atmosphere, or a "[=TikTok=] tune", which is a song that gained popularity on the social media platform [=TikTok=]. |
| 10 | ---- |
| 11 | !!Examples: |
| 12 | |
| 13 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 14 | |
| 15 | [[folder:Anime and Manga]] |
| 16 | * In the original ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' TV series, one background music piece called [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDlKS5apdbY "Marking Time, Waiting for Death"]] contains a ticking clock as part of its {{Leitmotif}}. |
| 17 | * In ''Anime/Ulysses31'', the [[https://youtu.be/Vrv3mqEV-iw theme]] of the Realm of Chronos appropriately has clock sounds. |
| 18 | [[/folder]] |
| 19 | |
| 20 | [[folder:Films -- Animated]] |
| 21 | * "Human Again" from ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'' had a recurring bridge of "Tick tock, the time goes, The days pass, the cock crows," causing the song to clock in at nearly eleven minutes in total and ultimately be deleted from the film and replaced with the much more compact "Something There." When the song was restored for the stage adaptation and the film's special edition, all traces of this bridge were removed and the song placed in a slightly different part of the story. |
| 22 | * Anna briefly imitates the ticking of a clock during the song "Do You Want to Build a Snowman" near the beginning of ''WesternAnimation/Frozen2013''. |
| 23 | * "Never Smile at a Crocodile" from ''WesternAnimation/PeterPan''. Appropriate, since [[TheCrocIsTicking the Crocodile swallowed a clock]]. |
| 24 | [[/folder]] |
| 25 | |
| 26 | [[folder:Films -- Live-Action]] |
| 27 | * Music/HansZimmer is apparently fond of this trope. |
| 28 | ** His score for ''Film/{{Inception}}'' prominently features the ticking of a clock on several of its tracks. Not surprisingly, the perception of [[YearInsideHourOutside time]] is an important subtheme of the film. |
| 29 | ** ''Film/SherlockHolmesAGameOfShadows'' prominently features ticking in several scores, notably when someone is about to die, or when they're trying to stop his plans, with all the subtext that implies. |
| 30 | ** The soundtrack for ''Film/{{Interstellar}}'' features clock ticking in some of the scores, most notably the track "Mountains" and its variations. The time between each tick gets shorter and longer in parts of the song, symbolising the time dilation effect the characters go through due to them being very near a black hole. |
| 31 | ** His score for ''Film/{{Dunkirk}}'' also features the ticking of a clock. He reportedly incorporated recordings of a pocket watch owned by director Christopher Nolan into the score. |
| 32 | * The [[spoiler:Time-Turner]] scene ''Film/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban'' has both constant ticking and the sound of chimes. |
| 33 | * ''Film/AmityvilleItsAboutTime'' is a time-based film, so the music is full of ticks and tocks, as well as things like chimes and bells ringing, and alarm clocks sounding. |
| 34 | [[/folder]] |
| 35 | |
| 36 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 37 | * Music/JohnWilliams' theme tune from ''Series/TheTimeTunnel''. |
| 38 | * One of the theme tunes from ''Series/BeatTheClock'', natch. |
| 39 | * ''Series/{{Heroes}}'' has Sylar's {{Leitmotif}}, which is not so much a "time is running out" as a creepy "this guy knows how things tick" thing. |
| 40 | * The theme tune from ''Series/{{Callan}}'' is suspenseful and includes the suggestion of a slowly ticking clock, reinforced by the image in the opening credits of a swinging lightbulb as a substitute pendulum. |
| 41 | ** The tune is uncredited, and may be a piece of library music that the producers found. If so, great choice. |
| 42 | * ''Series/BarneyAndFriends'': "The Clean Up Clock". |
| 43 | * ''Series/WheelOfFortune'' has two: one for the Speed-Up round (Final Spin) and another for the BonusRound. |
| 44 | ** Most of the Australian versions averted this, but the bonus round in ''Million Dollar Wheel of Fortune'' in 2008 not only had a tick-tock beat to the music, but it was also underscored by a robotic voice counting down the contestant's 10 seconds. |
| 45 | * The ''Series/{{Jeopardy}}'' ThinkMusic. |
| 46 | * ''Series/SixtyMinutes'' takes this to the extreme, using only the tick tick tick of a stopwatch where other shows would use a theme song. |
| 47 | * The ''Series/{{Countdown}}'' Clock music. |
| 48 | * A not-well-known PBS game show called ''Think Twice'' used this as contest music in its BonusRound. It starts with a clock ticking and adds tracks as the 60 seconds counts down. Also counts as a [[SongsInTheKeyOfPanic Song in the Key of Panic]] (Nearing the end/hurry), even though it's kinda upbeat. |
| 49 | * ''Series/DoctorWho'' has been known to use this [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-SBNgu1hO4 in its score.]] Given [[TimeyWimeyBall the premise]], it was bound to show up sometime. |
| 50 | * Leroy Anderson's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrpdQngwk2g The Syncopated Clock]]", used as the theme tune for the original non-talk show incarnations of "The Late Show" and "The Late, Late Show". |
| 51 | * The theme from ''The Strange World Of Gurney Slade'' by Max Harris. Later used in ''Series/VisionOn'' as the music for the cuckoo clock animations. |
| 52 | * The track [[https://youtu.be/_Pd5ABVoVok "TVA"]] from ''Series/Loki2021'' -- used as the end credits theme of the first episode -- incorporates the sound of clocks ticking, which ties in with the show's time-travel themes. [[https://youtu.be/zBx5Rp1tCIw A variant of the track]] arranged for the opening sequence of each episode has more subdued orchestral arrangement, and thus the ticking becomes more prominent. |
| 53 | * The first episode of ''Series/{{Chockablock}}'' (a British kids' show from the 1980s) features a song about a grandfather clock that has "lost its tock" and can only tick. After the clock's owner has tried PercussiveMaintenance, straightening the pendulum and adjusting the weight (none of which work) [[ItMakesSenseInContext his grandfather suggests he try saying words that rhyme with "clock", which does fix the problem]]. The clock can be heard ticking in the background throughout and chimes when its owner says a word that sounds like "clock". And, when its owner has come up with eight such words, the clock starts tick-tocking again. |
| 54 | [[/folder]] |
| 55 | |
| 56 | [[folder:Music]] |
| 57 | * Music/{{Alabama}}: Two songs from their catalog, 13 years apart: 1979's "I Wanna Come Over" (twice, between the intro and start of first verse, and again to end the bridge between the first refrain and second verse, to lead into "Is that what time it is ..."); and 1992's "I'm In a Hurry (and Don't Know Why)," where the tick-tock is used before the line "... shaking hands with the clock." |
| 58 | * "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--BcS3LehnI Time's Up]]" by Music/LivingColour starts with ticking clocks and bells. |
| 59 | * Its only in the chorus, but [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqkJ30Kh7ZM Tick Tick Boom!]] |
| 60 | * A nice old example from 1876: Henry Clay Work's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Txsa97oIi_c My Grandfather's Clock]]." |
| 61 | * From 1794: [[Music/JosephHaydn Franz Josef Haydn]]'s Symphony No. 101 in D major (the "Clock" Symphony), the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1L6p4B2hBs second movement]]. |
| 62 | * Music/GustavHolst 's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=159FlTACip8 Saturn the Bringer of Old Age]]" from ''The Planets'', though it's hard to decide whether the alternating chords are meant to stand for the tick-tock or the chime. |
| 63 | * "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZMm8pGaJMA Oily Night]]" from ''Music/TheBlackRider'' and "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdF056ZfGM4 The Earth Died Screaming]]" from ''Music/BoneMachine'' by Music/TomWaits. |
| 64 | * The Faithless track "Insomnia" starts with a jangling, ticking clock. Intentionally annoying, to put you in the same perspective as the title implies. |
| 65 | * Music/{{Styx}}'s "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNYKxiRJ2LA Too Much Time On My Hands]]" and it's ticking away, ticking away with me, etc. |
| 66 | * [[Music/NoDoubt Gwen Stefani]]'s "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTfbCOPApsQ What You Waitin' For?]]" and the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qk5MAv_X8HM cover]] by Music/FranzFerdinand. |
| 67 | * Ligeti's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0UAx3ZjmAY Poeme Symphonique for 100 Metronomes]]" uses, well, metronomes. It doesn't inspire any ratcheting tension, but expand your horizons by exposing yourself to it anyway. |
| 68 | * The classic Leroy Anderson composition "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0pIXz2omZE The Syncopated Clock]]" features a wood block imitating a ticking clock that eventually stops ticking on the beat and becomes, well, syncopated. |
| 69 | * "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_I6y5-GuLPM Frantic]]" by Music/{{Metallica}}. |
| 70 | * Music/BillHaleyAndHisComets' "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ud_JZcC0tHI Rock Around the Clock]]". |
| 71 | * The Chambers Brothers' psychedelicized soul epic "Time Has Come Today" - in the tick-tock intro, someone even goes "Cuckoo!" in the background. |
| 72 | * The intro and ending of Assemblage 23's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Swa6pTiasiQ Decades (V2)]]. |
| 73 | * "[=TiK ToK=]" by Ke$ha. |
| 74 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHQTd8Ub-bc "Tick-Tock Sick",]] Creator/JimHenson's minor novelty hit from 1960. |
| 75 | * Music/{{Placebo}}'s "Without You I'm Nothing." [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GqnDROi6l4 Here's]] the version with Music/DavidBowie. |
| 76 | * Music/TinyTim would make tick tock sounds with his tongue while singing "Tiptoe Through The Tulips". |
| 77 | * Music/DepecheMode's song "Here Is the House" features a ticking clock throughout. |
| 78 | * Music/{{Sting}}'s "Russians," a song about nuclear war, uses the ticking sound of a time bomb at the beginning and end. |
| 79 | * the gazettE's "Suicide Circus". Though the singer has a heavy accent and it sounds more like "chitatatatatata", that's what it is. Even if the "Nobody can rewind time" afterwards wasn't a good enough indication. |
| 80 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIHe1_Cl8fE Dreaming]] by BT f/ Kirsty Hawkshaw. |
| 81 | * "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLNMrcZtKbA Time Marches On]]" by Music/TracyLawrence. |
| 82 | * "Dynamo Clock" by Music/{{Covenant}}. |
| 83 | * The clock starts up the song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LM8JhvfoqdA Little Boxes]] by Music/WalkOffTheEarth. |
| 84 | * "Tick Tock", by the Vaughan Brothers. |
| 85 | * "Time is Ticking Out" by Music/TheCranberries. |
| 86 | * "Baba Yaga (Hut on Fowl's Legs)" from the ''Music/PicturesAtAnExhibition'' suite by Music/ModestMussorgsky; it's about a design for a clock in the shape of the hut of the named witch from Russian folklore, and the music strongly suggests the ticking of the clock, especially in the Isao Tomita interpretation. |
| 87 | * [[Music/TheDarkSideOfTheMoon "Time"]], by Music/PinkFloyd, opens with tick-tocking, then a bunch of alarms. |
| 88 | ** Parodied in "25 O'Clock" by The Dukes of Stratosphear ([[spoiler:Music/{{XTC}}]]). |
| 89 | ** From "The Final Cut": the sound of a ticking clock provides a bridge between "Your Possible Pasts" and "One of the Few." |
| 90 | * "No Son of Mine" by Music/{{Genesis|Band}} opens with the sound of a ticking clock. |
| 91 | * Several of Music/JohannSebastianBach's {{cantata}} movements are scored with pizzicato strings to suggest the passing of time, including the opening choral movement of ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hfkq-S7Vis8 Liebster Gott, wenn werd ich sterben?]]'' (BWV 8), the accompanied recitative "Der Glocken bebendes Getön" from the ''Trauerode'' (BWV 198), and the aria "Ach, schlage doch bald, selge Stunde" from ''Christus, der ist mein Leben'' (BWV 95). These movements are typically about wondering when one will die. |
| 92 | * Both "No Time" and its "Extra Time Remix" by The Heavy start with a ticking sound before before they launch into the song proper. |
| 93 | * "Little Sister" by Music/QueensOfTheStoneAge. |
| 94 | * "Like Clockwork" by The Boomtown Rats. |
| 95 | * The original 2002 version of "Someone" by Music/{{Boston}} contains a "nightstand clock added by Bill Ryan" credit. |
| 96 | The partially re-recorded version in 2013 does not. |
| 97 | * "Somnia" by Skyla Vertex. |
| 98 | * "Tic, Tic, Tic" by Creator/DorisDay. Though in the context of the song the tic-tic-ticking she's talking about is coming from a Geiger-Müller counter .. and her heart; it's a jaunty, happy love song. You expected something else from Doris Day? |
| 99 | * "Metrognome" by Music/{{Camel}} has a metronome on the verses, though the rest of the song [[UncommonTime seems to ignore it]]. |
| 100 | * "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4g5Jw7WWsrA Eggshell]]" by The Future Sound of London. |
| 101 | * Music/MarkWills' "Loving Every Minute" has a synthesized tick-tock effect at several points, including the last chorus (appropriately under the line "You made time stand still and I'm loving every minute"). |
| 102 | * A tick-tock effect is heard during the line "Shaking hands with the clock" on Music/{{Alabama}}'s "I'm in a Hurry (And Don't Know Why)". |
| 103 | * The Music/{{ABBA}} song "Like an Angel Passing through My Room" (featured on the group's final studio album [[note]]until ''Voyage'' in 2021[[/note]], ''The Visitors'') includes a ticking clock sound effect synthesized by Benny Andersson on his Minimoog which is heard in the background throughout. |
| 104 | * Music/JustinBieber's "What Do You Mean" has a ticking clock sound playing in the background. |
| 105 | * Music/WalkOffTheEarth's cover of "Little Boxes" has a ticking clock in the background. |
| 106 | * Music/JeanMichelJarre's time-themed 1993 album ''Chronologie'' has sounds of clocks of many kinds all over it, be it as layers (!) of ambient noise (the transition from "Part 1" to "Part 2" and after "Part 3", for example), be it as rhythmic percussion ("Part 4", "Part 5" and the end of "Part 8"). To top this off, "Part 4", "Part 5" and "Part 8" contain a sample of the electronic alarm melody of a 1992 Swatch [=MusiCall=] wristwatch — which was composed by Jarre himself. |
| 107 | * ''Juelz Santana'': [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=g0MnHd4JFIw Clockwork]]. First previewed in ''Oh Yes''. |
| 108 | * [[Music/AlvinAndTheChipmunks David Seville's]] pre-Chipmunks novelty song "Gotta Get to Your House" has this rhythm accompanying the singer as he hurries to meet his girlfriend. |
| 109 | * "4 Minutes" by Music/{{Madonna}} with Music/JustinTimberlake and Music/{{Timbaland}} features ticking sound effects and sung "tick tock"s in-between verses. |
| 110 | * "My Grandfather's Clock" has the words "tick tock" in the chorus to represent the clock faithfully counting the seconds of its owner's life. Some versions have a ticking sound elsewhere in the song as well. |
| 111 | * Music/{{GFRIEND}}'s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VKcLPdY9lI "Rough (Running Through Time)"]] has the sounds in the end of the song as well as a clock dancing move emulating the tune. |
| 112 | * In ''Music/TheHamiltonMixtape'', the end of "Cabinet Battle #3" is accompanied by the sound of a clock being set, firmly establishing that it's only a matter of time before the issue of slavery erupts in American politics again. |
| 113 | * "Do You" from Music/{{BTS}} RM's mixtape follows this tune. |
| 114 | * "Another Nine Minutes" by Yankee Grey opens up with ticking clock sounds. |
| 115 | * "Ready or Not" by Music/FitzAndTheTantrums uses a ticking clock sound before and throughout the second verse. |
| 116 | * Music/BlueOysterCult's "Astronomy" features a rhythmic drum bit during its verses that mimics a ticking clock, as clocks are mentioned in the lyrics several times (including in the very first line). |
| 117 | * Thunder Porpoise's [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin appropriately named]] "[[https://youtu.be/Q9mtq9Vk2QU Clocks]]"(no relation to the Music/{{Coldplay}} song). |
| 118 | * [[https://youtu.be/tN4zbonFlMs "Tune into the Madness"]] by Music/DanBull and Music/TheStupendium has a clock ticking sound that plays every other beat, [[TickTockTerror adding to the manic and creepy tone of the song]]. |
| 119 | * Music/LindseyStirling's "Shatter Me" opens with sounds of gears ticking and turning, like a music box being wound up in order to play it. |
| 120 | * "The Cursed Clock" by Music/NineInchNails. |
| 121 | [[/folder]] |
| 122 | |
| 123 | [[folder:Professional Wrestling]] |
| 124 | * Wrestling/MontelVontaviousPorter's first Wrestling/{{WWE}} [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCwnoD647lc Theme song]]. |
| 125 | -->1, 2, You hear the clock ticking? |
| 126 | -->Tick tock, you're about to stop living |
| 127 | -->Tick tock, I want you to remember me |
| 128 | -->Tick tock, but the dead don't have no memory |
| 129 | -->'''I'M COMING''' |
| 130 | * This also goes for MVP's Wrestling/NewJapanProWrestling theme "Most Valiantly Person" and his Wrestling/{{TNA}} Theme "Return Of The Ronin", though the ticking cuts out in them after awhile. |
| 131 | [[/folder]] |
| 132 | |
| 133 | [[folder:Stand-Up Comedy]] |
| 134 | * Parodied by Creator/TimVine in "My Marvellous Metronome", where the electronic metronome keeps speeding up until he can't keep up with the beat. |
| 135 | [[/folder]] |
| 136 | |
| 137 | [[folder:Theatre]] |
| 138 | * The piece [[https://youtu.be/ZWSXEWynwWo "Midnight"]] from Sergei Prokofiev's ''DerivativeWorks/{{Cinderella}}'' suite has a clock ticking instrumentation at the end, signifying WhenTheClockStrikesTwelve and Cinderella having to hurriedly leave the ball. |
| 139 | * ''Theatre/{{Hamilton}}'': In "Ten Duel Commandments", every time that the choir counts to ten is accompanied by the sound of a clock. The same ticking can be heard in "The World Was Wide Enough", since it's a DarkReprise. |
| 140 | [[/folder]] |
| 141 | |
| 142 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 143 | * ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedBrotherhood'' has [[https://youtu.be/aU3RJPzkw74 "Countdown"]], which often plays when there is a time requirement to 100% complete a memory. |
| 144 | * ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerTiberianSun'' features the aptly named [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZEeaVllesc "Time Bomb"]]. |
| 145 | * ''VideoGame/DeadRising2'' features one psychopath postal worker named Carl Schliff, who has taken to building bombs. His personality pretty much boils down to being a ticking time bomb, and his theme music reflects this well. |
| 146 | * "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BwCra_wMPY Hurry!]]" from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII''. |
| 147 | * "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETTk83qis0w Reach for the Moon, Immortal Smoke]]" (Mokou's theme) from ''Franchise/TouhouProject''. |
| 148 | * A good portion of ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'''s soundtrack features the ticking of a clock, fitting for the game's theme. |
| 149 | * ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'''s ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfO1VYi1hjU Thunder Plains]]'' music uses metronomes. |
| 150 | * ''VideoGame/{{OFF}}'' features the aptly-named "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBVHpgsS1F0 Clockwork]]". It's used in a level based around a maze within the main of a sinister bureaucracy. |
| 151 | * ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'': |
| 152 | ** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nu9t98K4AQM Temporal Spire]]" from ''VideoGame/PokemonMysteryDungeon 2''. |
| 153 | ** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joMrLP5L_vU Lavender Town]] from ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue''. |
| 154 | ** Anistar City from ''VideoGame/PokemonXAndY''. |
| 155 | * The music played in the background for the Flipsville and Chompworks Galaxies from ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy2''. |
| 156 | * Despite Tick Tock Clock (from ''VideoGame/SuperMario64'') taking place INSIDE a clock, it doesn't have its own tune. In ''VideoGame/MarioKartDS'' however, it comes complete with its own tick-tock tune: this is taken further in the rendition of the track in ''VideoGame/MarioKart8''. |
| 157 | * World 7-4 from ''VideoGame/SuperMario3DLand''. |
| 158 | * The Wawku Shrine from ''VideoGame/{{Okami}}'' is actually a giant clock, and its [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b24Yjac5_mE music]] features various clock-sounds, including a rhythmic tick-tock motif. So does [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_v5Kw7vK04 the theme]] of bosses of the place, Lechku & Nechku. Given they are a pair of clockwork owl demons with top hats, canes and monocles that are able to slow down time, it's pretty fitting. |
| 159 | * ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker'' has the Fairy Queen's theme, though rather than straight-up ticking, it's more like the ratchet sound of winding up a clock/toy/musicbox. |
| 160 | * In ''VideoGame/MagicalStarsign'' there is a dungeon based around the concept of time constantly being replayed (you view holographic versions of events from ealier in the game) and there is a creepy tune complete with "tick tock" style. |
| 161 | * ''VideoGame/SplinterCell'': |
| 162 | ** In the [[VideoGame/SplinterCell1 first game]], there's the [[https://youtu.be/bN56SPa3P6s track for the server rooms]] of the CIA's HQ at Langley. |
| 163 | ** In ''[[VideoGame/SplinterCellChaosTheory Chaos Theory]]'''s bomb-disarming mission at the bathhouse, the beeping of the timers is integrated into the [[https://youtu.be/OGWuoC0LbrE music]], which gets [[SongsInTheKeyOfPanic more frantic]] as the clock runs down. |
| 164 | * ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime'' has the [[LethalLavaLand Magmoor Caverns]]' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQCZIb0fbt8 theme]], which is taken from Lower Norfair from ''VideoGame/SuperMetroid.'' There's also [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBwafhQmQyQ the tune]] that plays during the [[TimedMission timed puzzle]] in the Chozo Ruins Energy Core as well as the puzzles in the Phendrana Drifts Observatory and Geothermal Core. |
| 165 | * ''VideoGame/SaGaFrontier'' features this in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bR52Wi5H5uw Time Lord's region]]. Well, after you get clocks ticking again. |
| 166 | * The tune [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdRWDarD6Mg "Acolytes of the New God"]] from ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' consists mainly of the sound of clocks ticking en masse alongside [[ForDoomTheBellTolls ominous church bells]] and [[OminousLatinChanting chanting]]. Doris Day's "Tic, Tic, Tic" was licensed for ''Fallout 3'' and used as one of the Galaxy News Radio songs. |
| 167 | * ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'': Behold [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AL-j8h0r2Q8 the Gnomes]]! (Also their Battle Kazoos.) |
| 168 | * A dark piano theme with a ticking clock ''VideoGame/{{Penumbra}}: Black Plague'' plays when Philip has an out-of-body experience during the first stages of the [[TheVirus Tuurngait virus]]. |
| 169 | * ''VideoGame/{{Folklore}}'' has the rather creepy-sounding "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBLMRXuRfFU Engraved Time]]", the theme is played in the Endless Corridors, a bizarre realm where time and space is eerily distorted. |
| 170 | * The AGD Interactive remake of ''[[VideoGame/KingsQuestIIRomancingTheThrone King's Quest II]]'' has a track in the library of Kolyma that plays this to the library's grandfather clock. In the original versions, the mechanical nightingale in ''[[VideoGame/KingsQuestVIHeirTodayGoneTomorrow King's Quest VI]]'' makes a sound like this trope when Alexander winds it. |
| 171 | * In ''VideoGame/SpaceQuestVTheNextMutation'', a minor key variant of the Jeapordy theme plays when Roger Wilco takes his Starcon Aptitude Test. |
| 172 | * The Bureau's Time Face in ''VideoGame/{{Obsidian}}'' adds a steady ticking beat to the music when you fix a strange clock to help the department of Immediate Action. |
| 173 | * The track "Saavedro's Lair" in ''VideoGame/MystIIIExile'' consists of an unsettling riff of [[BigBad Saavedro's]] lietmotif, accompanied by a muffled tick-tock noise in the background. It goes away when he Links out of the Age of J'nanin you're in. |
| 174 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bv3biyYpiC8 Countdown to Death (The Gantlet/Nirvana)]] from ''VideoGame/DoomII''. |
| 175 | * "Utopiosphere" from ''VideoGame/{{Deemo}}''. |
| 176 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfL5NoUMvbU Time Man's Theme]] from ''VideoGame/MegaManPoweredUp''. |
| 177 | * ''VideoGame/TheSexyBrutale'' has many themes with this incorporated, in keeping with the time theme. |
| 178 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjUSssButYM "Suspense"]] from ''VideoGame/Wolfenstein3D''. |
| 179 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58xuAELTA8Q "Disaster Decision"]] from ''VideoGame/SimCity 2000''. |
| 180 | * ''VideoGame/NightInTheWoods'' has "Tick Tock", a playable song added with the Weird Autumn update, originally a kids' show tune about the clock but [[SubvertedKidsShow turned dark]] by Mae and Gregg. |
| 181 | * ''VideoGame/HarmoKnight'' has the theme of the Clocktower levels, which not only includes the ticking of a clock but also times its music to fit the clock's tempo. |
| 182 | * In ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIMAGINE'', [[https://youtu.be/RohpTB2A5Lg the boss battle theme for Norn]] incorporates clock ticking, which is fitting considering [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/megamitensei/images/b/b5/Norn_%28P_O.A.%29.png what Norn looks like]]. |
| 183 | * ''VideoGame/TheNewOrderLastDaysOfEurope'' has "[[https://youtu.be/2zNXGrAJ8Nw Verify Your Clock]]", the theme for Sergey Taboritsky's Holy Russian Empire. Considering he's a [[SanitySlippage batshit]] AxCrazy [[TheCaligula Caligula]] whose mad rule causes Russia to collapse into an anarchic wasteland, TickTockTerror would also be appropriate. |
| 184 | * ''VideoGame/KeroBlaster'': The music for the Trayne Station level starts with a steady ticking sound before the music proper starts. The track is titled "Time Table", and the level has a lot of clocks lying around. |
| 185 | * ''VideoGame/PizzaTower'': "It's Pizza Time!" has a ticking sound playing after the intro. |
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| 187 | |
| 188 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
| 189 | * ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'': |
| 190 | ** ''[[https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/album/homestuck-vol-5-6-with-the-felt The Felt]]'', an album centered around the TimeMaster gang of the same name, has [[http://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/swing-of-the-clock-2 "Swing of the Clock"]] (a six-minute composition with a ticking clock as the main beat), [[http://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/the-broken-clock-2 "The Broken Clock"]] (written in [[UncommonTime 13/8 time signature]], with a clock ticking in about every other beat), and [[http://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/time-paradox-2 "Time Paradox"]] (with clock ticking interspersed with the Westminster Chimes scattered throughout the song). |
| 191 | ** Also from ''Homestuck'' is the album ''[[https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/album/colours-and-mayhem-universe-a-b coloUrs and mayhem: Universe A]]'', with the track [[https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/temporal-shenanigans "Temporal Shenanigans"]], which features similar clock ticking sounds. |
| 192 | * "[[WebVideo/DontHugMeImScared Don't Hug Me I'm Scared II - TIME]]" uses this from start to finish, since the main subject matter of the video is time. |
| 193 | * ''WebVideo/{{Jreg}}'': "I Watch My [=YouTube=] Videos At 2x Speed". The ticking is continuous throughout the song, but it becomes more prominent in the latter half as the song speeds up. |
| 194 | [[/folder]] |
| 195 | |
| 196 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 197 | * ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' has "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gpx5u1Ua-ZM Watchin' and Waitin']]", a song about the gang watching the boys' invention to see how it disappears before Mom gets home. |
| 198 | * ''WesternAnimation/MuppetBabies'' in the episode "Back to the Nursery" has the episode's song number ("Running Out of Time") invoke this trope (appropriate, being a time-travel story). |
| 199 | * The ''WesternAnimation/RenAndStimpy'' episode "Out West" has an expy of the 'Jeopardy' theme playing as lawmen Abner and Ewald try to squeeze out the simplest thoughts. |
| 200 | * The ''WesternAnimation/InspectorGadget'' episode "Cuckoo Clock Caper" appropriately uses a cuckoo clock-based arrangement of the main theme. |
| 201 | * In Creator/TexAvery's "Who Killed Who?," The hands of a clock rapidly spin to midnight, playing each note of "The Funeral March" with each minute hand strike of 12. |
| 202 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Ninjago}}'': Season 7 is time-themed, so Music/TheFold's intro song, "The Temporal Whip", appropriately uses a ticking clock sound throughout. |
| 203 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'' episode "King's Tide" as the song "[[https://youtu.be/SAqyPwtA970?si=4bfTYgyThnAbF7wb&t=1118 A Game Called The Owl House]]" that features the sound of a speeding clock that gives a "time rapidly is running out" feeling to the show's DarkestHour. |
| 204 | [[/folder]] |
| 205 | |
| 206 | [[folder:Other]] |
| 207 | * Creator/TheBBC's [[https://youtu.be/ZlX_GlEBFnc news theme]]. Revised in 2013 with extra strings when the news moved to its new studios. The pulsed beeps that provide a "heartbeat" reveal the song's tempo to be '''exactly''' one beat per second (as shown by the on-screen countdown). The beeps are in fact intended as a reference to the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwich_Time_Signal Greenwich Time Signal]], aka. "The Pips" -- six tones which are broadcasted on BBC radio to mark each hour, with the long closing pip marking the top of the hour. When a leap-second is added to worldwide atomic clocks, an extra pip is added just before the closing pip. |
| 208 | * There was a 1960s novelty instrumental called "Time Beat" by Ray Cathode, based on an interval theme by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop with added instrumentation by George Martin. |
| 209 | * The music outside the Small World ride at [[Ride/DisneyThemeParks Disneyland]]. |
| 210 | [[/folder]] |
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