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* '''Straight''': Dracone sings "Ring Around the Rosy" as he looks for Bob and Alice while carrying an axe.

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Dracone sings "Ring Around the Rosy" as he looks for Bob and Alice while carrying an axe.
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** Marie sings "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" during a mental breakdown.
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** [[TalkToTheFist Someone aims a damaging blow at Dracone's vocal cords to shut him up.]]

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** [[TalkToTheFist Someone Bob aims a damaging blow at at]] [[ImpromptuTracheotomy Dracone's vocal cords to shut him up.]]

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* '''Justified''': Dracone is a PsychopathicManchild and loves child-friendly tunes.

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* '''Justified''': '''Justified''':
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Dracone is a PsychopathicManchild and loves child-friendly tunes. tunes.
** Dracone is singing the tune to intentionally freak out Bob and Alice in an attempt to gain a psychological advantage.
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* '''Parodied''': ???

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* '''Parodied''': ??? Dracone delivers "Ring Around the Rosy" as a PissTakeRap.

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* '''Subverted''': Dracone sings "Ring Around the Rosy" in a creepy way while sharpening a knife...but then it turns out he's just getting in the spirit for a scary party.

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Dracone sings "Ring Around the Rosy" in a creepy way while sharpening a knife...but then it turns out he's just getting in the spirit for a scary party.



* '''Double Subverted''': Never mind, it turns out he was planning a nasty surprise for someone at the party.

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* '''Double Subverted''': Subverted''':
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Never mind, it turns out he was planning a nasty surprise for someone at the party.



* '''Zig Zagged''': Dracone sings "Ring Around the Rosy" in a creepy way, but then it turns out he's getting ready for a scary party. Then we find out he's laid a trap for someone at the party. But when the trap is sprung, it's just a harmless prank...or that's what Dracone ''wants'' everybody to think.

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Dracone sings "Ring Around the Rosy" in a creepy way, but then it turns out he's getting ready for a scary party. Then we find out he's laid a trap for someone at the party. But when the trap is sprung, it's just a harmless prank...or that's what Dracone ''wants'' everybody to think.
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* '''Inverted''': Bob sings a creepy song in a way that makes it seem more comforting and optimistic.

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* '''Inverted''': Bob sings a creepy song in a way that makes it seem more comforting and optimistic. In other words, an Unironic Nursery Tune.
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** CreepyChild Claire sings "Ring Around the Rosy" in a creepy way, but is never once shown doing anything malicious. The lighting makes her look terrifying when her mouth becomes full of saliva and she begins smiling creepily. Alice tells Claire to swallow her spit, she stops singing, shoots a DeathGlare at Alice and Bob, and then....starts to cry. She then says a bunch of [[BlackSpeech demonic sounding words]] in an angry voice while foaming at the mouth, drooling, and [[SlasherSmile grinning maniacally]], but it turns out she was just incomprehensible because of her saliva and was actually just accusing Alice of being mean to her. [[OrIsIt Or so she says]], she doesn't have a good track record for honesty when called out on creepy behavior.

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** CreepyChild Claire sings "Ring Around the Rosy" in a creepy way, but is never once shown doing anything malicious. The lighting makes her look terrifying when her mouth becomes full of saliva and she begins smiling creepily. Alice tells Claire to swallow her spit, she stops singing, shoots a DeathGlare at Alice and Bob, and then....starts to cry. She then says a bunch of [[BlackSpeech demonic sounding words]] in an angry voice while foaming at the mouth, drooling, and [[SlasherSmile grinning maniacally]], but it turns out she was just incomprehensible because of her saliva and was actually just accusing Alice of being mean to her. [[OrIsIt Or so she says]], says, she doesn't have a good track record for honesty when called out on creepy behavior.
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** CreepyChild Claire sings "Ring Around the Rosy" in a creepy way, but is never once shown doing anything malicious. The lighting makes her look terrifying when her mouth becomes full of saliva and she begins smiling creepily. Alice tells Claire to swallow her spit, she stops singing, shoots a DeathGlare at Alice and Bob, and then....starts to cry. She then says a bunch of [[BlackSpeech demonic sounding words]] in an angry voice while foaming at the mouth, drooling, and [[SlasherSmile grinning maniacally]], but it turns out she was just incomprehensible because of her saliva and was actually just accusing Alice of being mean to her. [[OrIsIt Or so she says]], she doesn't have a good track record for honesty when called out on creepy behavior.


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** Nobody reacts to Claire's creepy singing and just treats it as normal kids being kids stuff.

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* '''Downplayed''': ???

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* '''Downplayed''': ???Dracone sings "Ring Around the Rosy" while walking around a graveyard.



** CreepyChild Claire sings "Ring Around the Rosy" in a creepy way over and over again without pausing until she's eventually foaming at the mouth.....but it turns out she doesn't mean to be creepy about it, she just likes that song so much she can't stop singing it.

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** CreepyChild Claire sings "Ring Around the Rosy" in a creepy way over and over again without pausing until she's eventually [[NightmareFuel foaming at the mouth.....mouth]] and gurgling her words.....but it turns out she doesn't mean to be creepy about it, she just likes that song so much she can't stop singing it.



** Dracone appears in the shadows, singing "Have You Seen The Muffin Man?" in a creepy way, and intends to make [[ChildrenAreInnocent creepy yet innocent little Claire]] into his next victim.

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** Dracone appears in the shadows, singing "Have You Seen The Muffin Man?" and eventually "Oranges and Lemons" in a creepy way, and intends to make [[ChildrenAreInnocent creepy yet innocent little Claire]] into his next victim.victim.


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** Claire is a genuinely nice girl but is bullied for being "the weird kid", she learned if she sings "Ring Around the Rosy" in her usual creepy manner, the bullies back off, sometimes even run away. Her [[FaceOfAThug perpetual creepy expression]] helps really sell it.

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** CreepyChild Claire sings "Ring Around the Rosy" in a creepy way over and over again without pausing until she's eventually foaming at the mouth.....but it turns out she doesn't mean to be creepy about it, she just likes that song so much she can't stop singing it.



** Dracone appears in the shadows, singing "Have You Seen The Muffin Man?" in a creepy way, and intends to make [[ChildrenAreInnocent creepy yet innocent little Claire]] into his next victim.



* '''Discussed''': ???

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* '''Discussed''': ???"Remember when nursery rhymes were unironic fun for children?"

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* '''Exploited''': Knowing about Dracone's fondness for innocuous songs, Bob makes "Ring Around the Rosy" the trigger for the traps he sets up to ensure they catch [[TrappedTheWrongTarget only their intended target]].
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* '''Exploited''': '''Exploited''':
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Knowing about Dracone's fondness for innocuous songs, Bob makes "Ring Around the Rosy" the trigger for the traps he sets up to [[DefiedTrope ensure they catch catch]] ''only'' [[TrappedTheWrongTarget only their intended target]].
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** Dracone genetically engineers an army of {{uplifted|Animal}} weasels. Alice and Bob promptly [[VictoryThroughIntimidation demoralize the army]] by singing "Pop Goes The Weasel" through megaphones.
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** Dracone doesn't sing, all the better for sneaking around.
** [[TalkToTheFist Someone aims a damaging blow at Dracone's vocal cords to shut him up.]]



Back to IronicNurseryTune, IronicNurseryTune, IronicNurseryTune...brrr.

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Back to IronicNurseryTune, IronicNurseryTune, IronicNurseryTune... brrr.
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* '''Exploited''': Knowing about Dracone's fondness for innocuous songs, Bob makes "Ring Around the Rosy" the trigger for the traps he sets up to ensure they catch only their intended target.

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* '''Exploited''': Knowing about Dracone's fondness for innocuous songs, Bob makes "Ring Around the Rosy" the trigger for the traps he sets up to ensure they catch [[TrappedTheWrongTarget only their intended target.target]].

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* '''Exaggerated''': Dracone sings a medley of every single innocuous song in the world while setting off a DoomsdayDevice.

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* '''Exaggerated''': Dracone sings a medley of every single innocuous song in the world while setting off a DoomsdayDevice.DoomsdayDevice to bring about TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt.



* '''Justified''': ???
* '''Inverted''': Bob sings a song that is intended to be creepy in a way that makes it seem more comforting and optimistic.

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* '''Justified''': ???
Dracone is a PsychopathicManchild and loves child-friendly tunes.
* '''Inverted''': Bob sings a song that is intended to be creepy song in a way that makes it seem more comforting and optimistic.



* '''Exploited''': ???

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* '''Exploited''': ???Knowing about Dracone's fondness for innocuous songs, Bob makes "Ring Around the Rosy" the trigger for the traps he sets up to ensure they catch only their intended target.



* '''Implied''': Bob and Alice come back battered from a mission to find Charlie singing "Ring Around the Rosy" to his little sister Eva. They [[TraumaButtonEnding shudder and yell at him to sing something else.]]



%%* '''Implied''': ???
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'''Basic Trope''': A nursery rhyme or other innocuous tune is used for creepy effect.
* '''Straight''': Dracone sings "Ring Around the Rosy" as he looks for Bob and Alice while carrying an axe.
* '''Exaggerated''': Dracone sings a medley of every single innocuous song in the world while setting off a DoomsdayDevice.
* '''Downplayed''': ???
* '''Justified''': ???
* '''Inverted''': Bob sings a song that is intended to be creepy in a way that makes it seem more comforting and optimistic.
* '''Subverted''': Dracone sings "Ring Around the Rosy" in a creepy way while sharpening a knife...but then it turns out he's just getting in the spirit for a scary party.
* '''Double Subverted''': Never mind, it turns out he was planning a nasty surprise for someone at the party.
* '''Parodied''': ???
* '''Zig Zagged''': Dracone sings "Ring Around the Rosy" in a creepy way, but then it turns out he's getting ready for a scary party. Then we find out he's laid a trap for someone at the party. But when the trap is sprung, it's just a harmless prank...or that's what Dracone ''wants'' everybody to think.
* '''Averted''': No one sings a nursery tune in a creepy way.
* '''Enforced''': The nursery rhyme fits the theme of the story, and so the writers put it in by having someone sing it creepily.
* '''Lampshaded''': "Oh, not the creepy nursery rhyme of doom again."
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* '''Exploited''': ???
* '''Defied''': ???
* '''Discussed''': ???
* '''Conversed''': "Have you ever noticed how often nursery rhymes are used to be creepy in movies?"
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