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* ''WesternAnimation/CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteers'': "[[Recap/CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteersS3E3TheDeadlyGlow The Deadly Glow]]" has the Planeteers racing to find a pair of kids who have picked up some cesium (a radioactive mineral) before [[NuclearMutant Duke Nukem]] does. Duke Nukem references ''Literature/JackAndTheBeanstalk'' while hunting the cesium piece.
-->'''Duke Nukem''': Fee fi fo fum! I smell atomic cesium!
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'''Dr. Fox:''' Aw! That's pretty cute!\\
'''Unikitty:''' No, no, no. In this context, it's super creepy.
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/{{Unikitty}}''

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'''Dr. Fox:''' Aw! That's pretty cute!\\
cute.\\
'''Unikitty:''' No, no, no. no! In this context, it's super creepy.
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/{{Unikitty}}''
-->--''WesternAnimation/{{Unikitty}}''
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* In the horror film ''Film/{{Pearl}}'', there is a scene where the titular character curls up in her [[spoiler: dead]] mother’s arms while she sings a German lullaby to her [[spoiler: in her imagination, all set over a GrossUpCloseUp montage of Pearl dismembering and feeding one of her victims to a gator, and preparing the other two as well as a maggot-infested pig to look “presentable” for her husband when he returns from the war.]]

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* In the horror film ''Film/{{Pearl}}'', ''Film/Pearl2022'', there is a scene where the titular character curls up in her [[spoiler: dead]] mother’s arms while she sings a German lullaby to her [[spoiler: in her imagination, all set over a GrossUpCloseUp montage of Pearl dismembering and feeding one of her victims to a gator, and preparing the other two as well as a maggot-infested pig to look “presentable” for her husband when he returns from the war.]]
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* Near the end of ''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo'', Darla can be heard singing "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" out loud while tapping on the aquarium's glass wall where Peach the starfish is hanging onto.
-->'''Peach''': Find a happy place! Find a happy place!
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* "The Clapping Song", first recorded by Music/ShirleyEllis in 1965 and covered by many since then, including Music/GaryGlitter, Music/TheBelleStars, and Music/IconaPop (as "Clap Snap"), incorporates a jump-rope rhyme ("Three, six nine, the goose drank wine...") with a not-so subtle allusion to a black man being lynched ("The line broke, the monkey got choked").
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* English folk tune ''Ladybird, Ladybird'' has a few regional variations, but the most common is probably:
-->Ladybird, Ladybird, fly away home\\
Your house is on fire, your children will burn\\
All but one, and her name is Ann\\
And she hid under the frying pan
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* ''Theatre/TheMousetrap'' uses 'Three Blind Mice', variously sung, written, and played on a piano. The "blind mice" reference the motive for murder: [[spoiler:three children abused to the point of death (one was killed) by their foster mother, a farmer's wife]].
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* There's a common nursery rhyme about a pig getting ran over by a train.
--> Piggy on the railway picking up stones,
--> Along came an engine, and broke Piggy's bones.
-->"Oh!" said Piggy, "That's not fair."

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* There's a [[https://youtu.be/gGQd0LATCMk?si=CVefNHnlQ266IShD common nursery rhyme rhyme]] about a pig Mickey Mouse getting ran over by a train.
--> Piggy Mickey on the railway picking up stones,
--> Along Down came an engine, and broke Piggy's Mickey's bones.
-->"Oh!" -->"Ah!" said Piggy, Mickey, "That's not fair."
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* There's a common nursery rhyme about a pig getting ran over by a train.
--> Piggy on the railway picking up stones,
--> Along came an engine, and broke Piggy's bones.
-->"Oh!" said Piggy, "That's not fair."
-->"Oh!" said the engine driver, "I don't care."

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* ''Literature/SwanSong'': "Here we go 'round the mulberry bush, the mulberry bush, the mulberry bush..."

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* ''Literature/SwanSong'': The BigBad often sings "Here we go 'round the mulberry bush, the mulberry bush, the mulberry bush..."" while doing something especially sinister.


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* ''Literature/TeenPowerInc'': At the end of ''Danger in Rhyme'', local kids take up singing the song “This Old Man” near the site of one of the Nick Nack Bomber’s bombings, which were modeled after the rhymes in that song.

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%%* ''VideoGame/{{Lemmings}}''. [[ThatOneLevel We All Fall Down]]. Nuff said.%%Not enuff said. Needs more context.

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%%* * ''VideoGame/{{Lemmings}}''. [[ThatOneLevel We All Fall Down]]. Nuff said.%%Not enuff said. Needs more context.context.
* ''VideoGame/LittleNightmaresII'' makes heavy use of the melody of ''Three Blind Mice'' as a running motif in the score, combined with CreepyChildrenSinging and OminousMusicBoxTune.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Droopy}}'' has an example PlayedForLaughs in the cartoon "Thanks a Latte": after driving Wolfie crazy from [[TheCatCameBack unexplicably coming back]] to ask him for a tip after making him a latte, Wolfie [[ItMakesSenseInContext escapes the airplane they're in]], only for [[DeadpanSnarker Droopy]] to make a dry remark to the rhythm of "Ring Around The Rosey" .
-->'''Droopy:''' You know what? ''[[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodSandwich He forgot his latte.]]''
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Overlaps with the OminousMusicBoxTune. Often goes with the CreepyChild, the PsychopathicManchild and AmbiguousInnocence. See also SoundtrackDissonance. The opposite, where the music box is used positively, is NostalgicMusicBox. Compare and contrast FracturedFairyTale. Compare CreepyCircusMusic and SinisterWhistling. Compare and contrast CreepyChildrenSinging, where creepy songs and nursery rhymes are played in the background to add tension and fear to a scene. [[ZigZaggingTrope Zig-zagged]] by many a PlaygroundSong, which genuinely come from children's oral tradition but often just are that dark. When used in advertising, see MoodyTrailerCoverSong.

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Overlaps with the OminousMusicBoxTune. Often goes with the CreepyChild, the PsychopathicManchild and AmbiguousInnocence. See also SoundtrackDissonance. The opposite, where the music box is used positively, is NostalgicMusicBox. Compare and contrast FracturedFairyTale. Compare CreepyCircusMusic and SinisterWhistling. Compare and contrast CreepyChildrenSinging, where creepy songs and nursery rhymes are played in the background to add tension and fear to a scene. [[ZigZaggingTrope Zig-zagged]] by many a PlaygroundSong, which genuinely come from children's oral tradition but often just are that dark. When used in advertising, see MoodyTrailerCoverSong. May overlap with SelfSoothingSong.
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* Disney's ''Ride/TowerOfTerror'' has of one of the unfortunate guests sent to the Twilight Zone from the elevator sing a creepy rendition of "It's Raining, It's Pouring", likely a reference to [[LightningCanDoAnything the lightning from a storm being responsible for their accident]].

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* Like the film above, Disney's ''Ride/TowerOfTerror'' ''Ride/TheTwilightZoneTowerOfTerror'' has of one of the unfortunate guests sent to the Twilight Zone from the elevator sing a creepy rendition of "It's Raining, It's Pouring", likely a reference to [[LightningCanDoAnything the lightning from a storm being responsible for their accident]].
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* Disney's ''Ride/TowerOfTerror'' has of one of the unfortunate guests sent to the Twilight Zone from the elevator sing a creepy rendition of "It's Raining, It's Pouring", likely a reference to [[LightningCanDoAnything the lightning from a storm being responsible for their accident]].

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* A B-horror movie called ''Sleepstalker'', in which the monster is an executed killer into a twisted, demonic version of the sandman, features a creepy nursery rhyme about a child going to sleep.

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* A B-horror movie called ''Sleepstalker'', ''Film/{{Sleepstalker}}'', in which the monster is an executed killer into a twisted, demonic version of the sandman, features a creepy nursery rhyme about a child going to sleep.


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* In ''Film/Snapshot1979'', Daryl is stalking Angela in a [[BadHumorTruck Mr. Whippy van]]. Several times Angela is unnerved when she hears the tinny version of "Greensleeves"--the tune Mr. whippy vans play--in the middle of the night, even though she cannot see the van.

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