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Awesome moments from Elfman's scores for ''Film/Batman1989'' and ''Film/BatmanReturns'' can be found [[AwesomeMusic/BatmanFilmSeries here]], his work on ''Film/SpiderManTrilogy'' can be found [[AwesomeMusic/SpiderMan here]], his work for ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'' can be found [[AwesomeMusic/MCUPhase1And2 here]], and his work for ''Film/JusticeLeague2017'' can be found [[AwesomeMusic/DCExtendedUniverse here]].
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* Whenever Elfman gets together with Creator/TimBurton, you can expect awesome music.
** The score to ''Pee-Wee's Big Adventure''. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYyD55elKJA#t=1m14s "Breakfast Machine"]] at the beginning is a quirky piece of music that perfectly sets up the comedic tone of the rest of the movie.
** [[TheVillainSucksSong "The naughty children suck"]] songs in ''Film/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory'' are all pretty good, but the first ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiMpTzd0Gqo "Augustus Gloop"]]) and the last ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEQj2oDqJsY "Mike Teevee"]]) kick ridiculous amounts of ass. (Both "Teevee" and "Making Christmas" have touches of DeathlyDiesIrae about them too.)
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xyspn61ccyE Alice's Theme]] from Burton's ''Film/AliceInWonderland2010'' is absolutely breathtaking.
** Elfman gets piles of awesome points for both composing "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ny33f3mSjHs This is Halloween]]", from ''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas'', and for providing Jack Skellington's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJENLw1QWek singing voice]]. He also wrote two absolutely ''killer'' {{Villain Song}}s: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMNSk-oMNqw Kidnap the Sandy Claws]]" and "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDPWbXAWflA Oogie Boogie's Song]]". It's just as much his movie as it is Tim Burton's.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L91w7A-VNh8 "The Grand Finale"]] from ''Film/EdwardScissorhands'' may be the most gloriously bittersweet of his compositions.
%%** ''Film/{{Beetlejuice}}'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZktSPrGSck theme]].
%%** The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-KB_Djszro opening credits]] music in ''Film/SleepyHollow1999''.
%%** The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rQjksu45wU opening]] to ''Film/PlanetOfTheApes2001''.
%%** The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62TEljaPzo0 opening credits]] in the 2005 ''Film/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory'' movie.
%%** He was [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1qgmdVgN70 Bonejangles]] in ''WesternAnimation/CorpseBride'', too.
%%** Also from ''Nightmare'' is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFy3gPzuGQc Sally's Song]], which doubles as a TearJerker.
%%** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBomQh0np6w His score for]] ''Film/MarsAttacks''
* Then there's his work on Creator/SamRaimi's films. The first track he composed for Raimi, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKHAX1K4sKQ "March of the Dead"]] from ''Film/ArmyOfDarkness''.
* ''Film/{{Wanted}}'' has him singing rock once again, with the awesome [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRWsqZNJa_M "The Little Things"]].
* His [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMJC9Ztd6Ts theme for]] the ''Film/MenInBlack'' trilogy is also awesome, with a great ostinato.
* ''Film/TheKingdom'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7rTXZrcDeQ Finale]]. So much that it was used in the [[TearJerker highway scene]] from ''WesternAnimation/{{Rango}}''.
* ''[[Film/MissionImpossible1996 Mission: Impossible]]'': The hard-charging music that plays over that first approaching shot to the bullet train.
* ''Standard Operating Procedure'': For a serious documentary examining the [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror Abu Ghraib abuse scandal]], we get [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIA4mm5Vuqc "Main Titles - Vacation in Iraq",]] an appropriately haunting song which helps set the mood.
%% * ''Film/TheWolfman2010''. Danny Elfman, you've done it again.
%%* His music played during ''Film/{{Hulk}}''[='=]s SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome.
* The '90s live-action ''[[Series/TheFlash1990 Flash]]'' TV series came and went... really quickly... but Danny Elfman's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fa9b7ZQ3Zkw theme tune]] is still some of the best superhero music ever composed for any medium. As are the episode scores (and that of the pilot) by the late great Shirley Walker.
* His theme song for ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''. Not only is it one of the most epic sitcom openers ever and massively catchy, it's gone on to become one of the most famous television themes of all time.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3xKyWemAr0 "Happy,"]] a characteristically CreepyAwesome pop/rock song, the first he's released since ''1984'', which dropped with absolutely no anticipation two days before Halloween 2020, complete with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3xKyWemAr0 an equally awesome music video]]. He's StillGotIt. Followed by another song in early 2021, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sSLLRGC6tM "Sorry,"]] with animation reminiscient of WebAnimation/{{Cyriak}}.
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