History Main / OminousLatinChanting

* The Manga/{{Berserk}} Golden Age Films have [[http://quietube2.com/v.php/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LkDfQEFwrs&feature=player_embedded Sounds of Tortured Souls]] as well as [[http://quietube2.com/v.php/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvPP8qTCT1k&feature=player_embedded Blood and Guts]]

* CirqueDuSoleil's ''{{Totem}}'' has "Cum Sancto Spiritu".

* In the Film/JamesBond movie ''Film/DieAnotherDay'', Ominous ''backward English Chanting'' is used for the BigBad's evil space laser. The phrase, according to the composer, is "look at the size of that umbrella."
* ''Film/RoboCop'' has a chorus that chants his name.

* ''VideoGame/EternalDarkness'' does this with ominous whispering that comes up in incidental music during chapters set in the Forbidden City in Persia. Actual chanting can be heard in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIWb3E9P6So A War To End All Wars]].

* ''VideoGame/EternalDarkness'' does this with ominous whispering. Also comes up in incidental music during chapters set in the Forbidden City in Persia.

* The anime of ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'''s "Battle Tendency" has the track "Propaganda", the {{leitmotif}} of Nazi officer Rudolph von Stroheim [[spoiler:during his tenure as a [[StupidJetpackHitler cyborg made from NAZI SCIENCE!]]]]. It consists of Ominous Chanting in the finest tradition of this trope even if it's in German and not Latin. For bonus points [[BilingualBonus the lyrics are from]] ''Literature/AlsoSprachZarathustra'' and talks about the nature of the {{Ubermensch}}.

* The anime of ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'''s "Battle Tendency" has the track "Propaganda", the {{leitmotif}} of Nazi officer Rudolph von Stroheim [[spoiler:during his tenure as a [[StupidJetpackHitler cyborg made from NAZI SCIENCE!]]]]. It consists of Ominous Chanting in the finest tradition of this trope even if it's in German and not Latin. For bonus points [[BilingualBonus the lyrics are from]] ''[[FriedrichNietzsche Also Sprach Zaratustra]]'' and talks about the nature of the {{Ubermensch}}.

* The anime of ''Anime/JoJosBizarreAdventure'''s "Battle Tendency" has the track "Propaganda", the {{leitmotiv}} of Stroheim the Nazi officer. It consists of Ominous Chanting in the finest tradition of this trope even if it's in German and not Latin. For bonus points the lyrics are from ''Literature/AlsoSprachZaratustra'' and consist of the idea of the {{Ubermensch}}.

* The ''{{FEAR}}'' series, notably the second game, occasionally uses Gregorian or tribal chanting samples.

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* Spoofed in ''TheSimpsons'' when Marge recalls that she [[OneDrinkWillKillTheBaby accidentally had a single drop of wine while pregnant with Bart]]. As the foetus acquires spiky hair and a devilish expression, the Background Music plays an Ominous Chant of "[[CatchPhrase Ay Caramba!]]"
* The title theme music to the animated ''SilverSurfer'' series had Latin-sounding singing interspersed at ominous points against the instrumental background.
* The ''InvaderZim'' episode "Gaz, Taster of Pork" featured cues of a chorus singing "Pork! Pork! Pork!" and later, "Piggy-piggy-piggy-piggy..."

* ''{{Okami}}'' has Ominous Japanese Buddhist Chanting in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHkTJTD2gvU the theme of Oni Island]], the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZhWwx9EOjQ Geisha Spider's battle music]], anywhere [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUcvju-c7ko this plays]] (that is, anywhere there is something evil), and anytime where you put your divinely lupine butt enters a [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CW5OKJ1292g cursed zone]].

* ''TombRaider'' is absolutely chock-full of this in its first three games, particularly the original game.
** ''TombRaider: Anniversary'' has even more (especially in its Greek section). ''TombRaider: Legend'''s theme tune is a Gaelic chant (although not really ominous), also a BilingualBonus as it is actually a Gaelic folk song. It also has an "Ave Maria" Latin chant.
** ''TombRaider: Underworld'''s theme tune is focused around a slowly growing chant (although its use here is more epic than ominous)

*** Or not: Most of For Answer's songs are subversions, or rather, Ominous English Chanting. Only "Today" and the intro version "4 The Answer" are not in English. (Yes, even "Spirit of Motherwill" is in English.) Same goes for a LOT of ArmoredCore songs-- although, the jury's out on what those Lyrics actually are (and in some cases, questioning what they may be is a form of InternetBackdraft- case-in-point "Thinker" from ArmoredCore 4)

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* ''{{Bayonetta}}'', like ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry'', has [[ChristianityIsCatholic Christian/Roman Catholic]] symbolism [[RuleOfSymbolism out the wazoo]], so it's only fitting that its soundtrack is all over this trope like jam on toast. The two best examples are the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QV3wFRy23cY&feature=related Final Boss theme]] and the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFPVWv7X0c4&feature=related fight against]] [[spoiler: Balder]].

Latin is probably the most familiar dead language due to its being the ancestor of modern Romance languages (even though English is a Germanic language, it still has a major proportion of Latin influence, primarily through French and science), and its prominence and impact on modern culture make it easy to fact-check. Nevertheless, Ancient Greek, Sanskrit, Hebrew and others are sometimes used to similar effect. Eastern-style chanting is also having a surge in popularity, possibly due to the increase in stories featuring conflicts between Eastern and Western worlds. Creators that went to the trouble of [[{{Conlang}} inventing their own language]] for a work will likely find a way to feature it in this manner too. There's also a chance that the music only reminds one of ominous Latin chanting, opting to use "ooh", "aah", "ooo", and the like. Indeed, the lyrics don't need to mean anything; for the majority of the audience, [[CanisLatinicus Ominous Latin-Sounding Gibberish]] works just as well.

** Demons & Wizards also uses this: "[[TheDarkTower Crimson King]]" starts with chanting choirs and "Chant," the outro on their first album is a (pseudo?) Gregorian chant that Hansi Kürsch made by multi-tracking his voice. Speaking of Hansi, the second album by his main band, Music/BlindGuardian, opens with "Inquisition": ''Pie Jesu Domine, dona eis requiem'' chanted repeatedly. (This is the same as the chanting in ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail''.) It's fairly relevant; the first song is about John the Baptist.

* The theme to the darkly humorous Danish television series ''{{Riget}}'' (of which Creator/StephenKing's ''KingdomHospital'' is a remake) mixed genuine Latin phrases with gibberish, counting to seven in English and slow spelling of the word "rectum" [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwt1O27LLUY&feature=PlayList&p=FC1E3F51A746DE8A&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=1]]. Even the legitimate Latin is nonsense ("speculum et cetera"; "mirror and so forth").

* Slovenian Industrial band Laibach bypassed ominous, going straight to nightmare fuel unleaded with "Vade Retro Satanas" from their album Nova Akropola. "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kn1oZyOhJBo]]"