Crowd Chant

Robin: Make fun of the Great White North all you want, but Canada is the greatest country in the world.
Barney: Great... Social experiment.
Barney: [Chants] U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A!
Rest of the Bar: [Joining in] U-S-A! U-S-A!
Robin: What does that even prove? They'll chant at anything. Ca-na-da! Ca-na-da!
Rest of the Bar: ...
Robin: Ca-na... all right, so they won't chant at anything.
Barney: [Chants] Shrimp fried rice! Shrimp fried rice!
[rest of the bar joins in]
Ted: [Coming in] Shrimp fried rice, totally!

— How I Met Your Mother

If there comes a time in a work when the author wants to convey that the community has come together to celebrate an achievement or themselves as a society; or maybe you want to let the audience know the entire crowd backs up a competitor. That is when you'll see the crowd all chant the same word or phrase together over and over again.

Often, but not necessarily, it will consist of three syllables or portions of the word separated to the rhythm of two quarter notes and then a half note (or two quick beats and a slow beat). Note, however, that this trope refers to the crowd chanting together, and the number of beats or syllables does not matter.

Often Truth in Television in any situation that creates a feeling of togetherness, e.g. sports matches and demonstrations.

Tends to create a similar sound to any phrase that has been Punctuated! For! Emphasis!,and is a cousin to the collective gasp. Similar to the Slow Clap. Related to Crowd Song and Audience Participation Song. A Pom-Pom Girl may be employed to help start these up.

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Examples:

Asian Animation

• At the beginning of Season 7 episode 21 of Happy Heroes, Miss Peach introduces someone named Mr. Success for a TV show. Mr. Success, upon entering the stage, is met with a chant "Succ-ess! Succ-ess!" from the crowd.
• Simple Samosa:
  • In "Jalebi's Birthday", after Samosa gives Jalebi the microphone to his jukebox so that she can say something to everyone attending her birthday party, the crowd of attendees cheers her on, chanting "Ja-le-bi! Ja-le-bi!"
  • In "Pimple Samosa", the audience at the TV studio chant "Sa-mo-sa! Sa-mo-sa!" after Samosa stands up for his talking pimple, Peter, and decides not to use the pimple cream the studio is testing out, also inadvertently revealing the talk show's host is wearing a wig in the process.

Fan Fiction

• Being a pro wrestling story, A Ring of Their Own has several.
  • When Molly Holly squashed Lacey Von Erich in 7 seconds (a new record in-story for shortest match), the audience chanted "Seven Seconds!" at Lacey, prompting her to break down crying.
  • When Jim Cornette told the audience that he turned down 83-year-old Mae Young's request to join the FWF, part of the crowd chanted "We Want Mae!"
  • When Ivory returned to the broadcast booth after being out following being injured in a match against Michelle McCool, the audience stood, applauded and chanted, "You're Still Here!"
  • At the end of the story when Victoria announced her retirement, the crowd chanted "Please Don't Go!", much like they did in real life when Victoria left WWE.

Film

• Hook:
  • The Lost Boys chanted together "Ru-Fi-O" during a fight between Rufio and Peter Pan to show their support for fellow Lost Boy Rufio. This then gets reversed on Rufio when Peter is able to win over the Lost Boys and they start chanting his name instead. Rufio attempts to counter with his own name but gets drowned out.
  • For the titular villain, chanted by his entire crew: "HOOK! HOOK! Show us the Hook! HOOK! HOOK! Give us the Hook!"
  • Hook tries to set up a chant for Jack during his compensatory baseball game. Hook's pirates mix things up and start chanting "RUN HOME, JACK!" This proved costly for Hook, as it stirs Jack's thoughts of home and his sister. Smee has the pirates switch places, and the pirates start chanting "HOME RUN, JACK!" There are also a couple of chants of "Two, four, six, eight! Who do we appreciate?", both after that game and after the game Jack's team loses at the beginning of the film.
• The Green Lantern (2011) movie: "We! Are! The corps!"
• Immortalized in The Mighty Ducks with the chant of "Quack! Quack! Quack!"
• In The Big Green, Jay Huffer, the divorced coach of the Knights,takes advantage of being in the championship game by getting big green coach Anna Montgomery to agree to kiss him if the Knights win as part of a water. However, the Knights lose, and Jay has to hold up his end of the deal and kiss The Big Green's mascot: a goat. Led by the boys, The Big Green players chant "KISS THE GOAT!" until Jay and Ernie's lips meet.
• Parodied in Robin Hood: Men in Tights, where the audience act like they're in a modern sports event.
  All right, guys, let's give him the chop! Ooooh~ oooh oohhhhhhh~ Oh, oh, oohhhhh~

• In The Dark Knight Rises, the prisoners in the pit chant "Deshi deshi! Basara basara!" when one of them attempts the climb to the top to get free. It's reprised several times in the film's soundtrack to great effect.
• Who could forget "ROCKY ROCKY ROCKY ROCKY!!!!"
• In Avengers: Infinity War, the Wakandan army (led by T'Challa) chants "Yibambe"^note Xhosa, translates to "Hold fast" or "Hold the Line" before battling Thanos's forces. They do it again in Avengers: Endgame, when a Sling Ring portal opens up to Wakanda, allowing them to battle 2012!Thanos' forces as well.
• In Turning Red, the audience at the 4*Town concert chants the band's name.
• The Naked Gun: After Drebin saves the Queen of England's life at the baseball game, a random fan recognizes him from his previous "undercover" appearance on the field, leading to the crowd chanting "En-rico Pal-lazo!"

Literature

• In Animal Farm: "Four legs good, two legs baaaaaad!"
• Unseen Academicals: "LIKELY! LIKELY! LIKELY!"
• Dave Barry had a column here he talked about a researcher who noticed that where getting a relatively small group of people to sing in tune and in rhythm is usually difficult, vast crowds at sporting events all chant the same notes in harmony.
• In Hover Car Racer, the audience chants "We love the Bug!" after Jason passes out during a 9G turn, and the Bug leans forward to pilot the car to the Finish Line.

Live-Action TV

• Stephen Colbert often leads his audience in chants of "U.S.A!" or "I was right!" in this rhythm. and of course the show usually starts with enthusiastic chants of "Ste-phen!"
• Jerry Springer always opens with the audience chanting "Jer-ry! Jer-ry! Jer-ry! Jer-ry!" ^note  except for the times Steve Wilkos stepped in to host for Jerry and the crowd chanted for him
  • The audience of Whose Line Is It Anyway? shouted "Jer-ry" when he appeared on the show. They'll often take the role of the cheering audience when the cast gives them cues.
• How I Met Your Mother: Barney proves to Robin that the United States is better than Canada by starting a "USA" chant in the bar. Robin tries to do it with Canada and gets blank stares.
  • Course, in fairness, U-S-A! is also easier to chant this way.
• Battlestar Galactica: So Say We All!
• Doctor Who has the entire world all chanting "Doctor" at once.
• In the audition rounds of America's Got Talent, the crowd will tell the judges to send fantastic acts to the Las Vegas rounds by chanting "Ve-gas! Ve-gas!" Horrible acts, on the other hand, just get booed.
• Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger features the crowd chanting along with the transformation sound of Gigant Bragi-Oh ("GII-GAN-TO GIGANTO!"), which helps break the curse that had weakened the Kyoryugers' powers, and later doing the same for the first appearance of Gigant Kyoryuzin.
• After The 100 first land on Earth, they chant "Whatever the hell we want!" to celebrate their new found freedom from the oppressive Ark.
  • When Murphy gets lynched, the 100 want Bellamy to be the one to finish him off, chanting, "Bellamy! Bellamy!"
  • Prior to the assault on Mount Weather, the entire Grounder/Sky People army chants "Jus Drein Jus Daun!" (In the Grounder's language, it means "Blood Must Have Blood".)
• M*A*S*H has this in the episode "Adam's Ribs". After yet another day of getting liver and fish for lunch, Hawkeye loses it, stands up, and begins ranting about how he's tired of eating it before starting to bang a tray on a pillar and scream "WE WANT SOMETHING ELSE!" He's joined by the entire rest of the mess tent — including the food servers.
• Modern Family. Subverted. Alex and her college buddies cheer on their friend by shouting "Chug! Chug! Chug!". He's not drinking beer; he's solving a hellishly complex math problem. His name is "Chug".
• Ted Lasso: The Richmond home crowd will often chant in support of a player whenever they do something impressive.
  • For Jamie, they go "Ja-mie Tartt doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo..."
  • For Roy, they go "He's here, he's there, he's every-fucking-where! Roy Kent! Roy Kent!"
  • The eleventh episode of the second season opens with the crowd chanting Sam's name to the tune of "Seven Nation Army" at the end of a match in which he has scored three goals.
• On Yellowjackets, the WHS Yellowjackets girls' soccer team has "Buzz, buzz, buzz!" in imitation of the buzzing of actual yellowjackets.
• Big Mouth (2022): Every prisoner at Gucheon Penitentiary chants "Big" (short for "Big Mouse") in support of Changho when he has to prove to Jihoon that he's the real "Big Mouse." It's so epic that this is the first and only time the show plays a song in a scene.

Music

• In Korean Pop Music it is common and expected for each group, band, or solo artist to have predetermined fanchants that fans call out in time with the songs. They include listing the artists' names or else specific echoes and responses to certain lines in a song. It's not uncommon for fans or the artists themselves to make instructional videos so that people have them memorized for concerts.

Professional Wrestling

• As to be expected, this has always been an integral part of pro wrestling. It wouldn't be surprising if something along the lines of "Go Johnny Go" was omnipresent during the very first match.
• The Rock was a master of crowd participation in his promos, the fans hanging on to every one of his catchphrases when he talked.
  • The most common were his opener: "Finally, The Rock HAS COME BACK to (town/city the show is in)!" and his closer: "IF YOU SMELLLLLLLLL WHAT THE ROCK! IS! COOKING!"
  • Also, every time The Rock would mention the millions ("AND MILLIONS!") of Rock's fans, all chanting his name! "ROCKY! ROCKY! ROCKY! ROCKY!"
• Back in the 80s, fans used to chant "Faggot" at Jim Cornette, manager and presumed butt buddy of The Midnight Express. This stopped in the 90s when fans began to associate Cornette more with Dairy Queen, though Cornette's spiritual successor, Fabulous Frank, continued to get chants of "Frank Is Gay" at Future Of Wrestling events.
  • Brian Pillman got a "Faggot" chant going at the 1991 Great American Bash show on Johnny B. Badd, encouraged by Pillman yelling "Johnny don't B. Badd, Johnny be GAY!" into the camera just as the match was about to start.^note Mero and Pillman would later be notable for being the first two guys that Vince McMahon signed to a guaranteed contract
• When an All-American Face is losing, especially against a Foreign Wrestling Heel, count on the crowd to start chanting "U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A!"
• In addition to crowd song like "Taz is gonna kill you!", ECW popularized several other once signature chants at other shows:
  • Chanting the name of the promotion: "E-C-DUB! E-C-DUB!"
  • Upon a particularly awesome moment: "HO-LY SHIT! HO-LY SHIT!" This one has even shown up among audiences of promotions or live events where virtually no English is spoken otherwise.
  • When cheering a particularly badass wrestler: "He's/she's hardcore!"
  • "She's Got Herpes!" or "She's A Crack Whore", usually chanted at Francine.
  • "Show Your Tits!" started after a power outage when Paul Heyman sent Kimona Wanalaya out to distract the audience with a strip tease. She refused because there were (inexplicably) children in the audience, and ended up taking a leave of absence due to the booing she got for not complying.
  • When jeering a WWE-style power wrestler without much talent: "YOU CAN'T WRESTLE!" If said wrestler does have some talent and tries to prove them wrong: "SAME OLD SHIT!" and if they do something different in response to this: "YOU STILL SUCK!"
  • "Die, ___, Die!", if someone has done something truly heinous...or is just that intolerable.
  • When jeering a bad match in general: "BO-RING! BO-RING!"
  • Smarks who adore pointing out mistakes are prone to telling wrestlers "YOU FUCKED UP! YOU FUCKED UP!" Like the "HOLY SHIT!" chant this one spread throughout wrestling and is occasionally even heard in Japanese promotions.
  • "We want tables/fire! *clap, clap, clap clap clap* (repeat)", particularly if The Dudley Boyz were around.
  • Following the Falls Count Anywhere nature of ECW: "CAN'T SEE SHIT! CAN'T SEE SHIT!"
  • When a match has elevated to a certain level of awesomeness, expect fans to serenade the current in-ring competitors with a well-deserved "THIS IS AWESOME!" chant. Jim Ross in fact brought this one up when describing "an ECW crowd" but the chant has since become more associated with WWE fans, who have picked this one up more than the others.
• CHIKARA fans, being from the same mold as ECW fans, bowdlerize many of the above chants. ("HOLY POOP!" "YOU SCREWED UP!")
• Goooooooold-Berrrrrg! Goooooooold-Berrrrrg!, which WCW actually piped in. Though DDP denies it, arguing WCW didn't have the know-how to pipe anything in. The fans got into doing it on their own regardless.
• In an ironic case, Championship Wrestling From Florida had made a declaration "This Is Wrestling" back in the 1980s when the WWF coined the phrase "Sports Entertainment". After its folding, CWF, which was also interchangeably called FCW (Florida Championship Wrestling), would see a couple attempted revivals, one of the most prominent being by WWE, who by then was "just WWE INC" instead of "World Wrestling Entertainment" making the declaration, which by now had become a crowd chant in Ring Of Honor, all the more appropriate. And when Low Ki and Bryan Danielson showed up in WWE's FCW and wrestled what critics would call a "clinic", guess what was chanted?
• In Mexican and Puerto Rican promotions, such as CMLL and The World Wrestling League, the chant is instead "Esto es lucha!"
• Fans at Toryumon events started chanting "H-A-G-E" at Genki Horiguchi when his hairline started receding. It became so integral to him that promoting his HAGE, or bald head, became one of the top priorities when Dragon Gate was considering coming to the US.
• If you ever hear an "ASSHOLE!" chant for no apparent reason it's likely because arena security is taking someone's sign or something similar.
• WWE has popularized a few:
  • The dueling chants of "LET'S GO, [WRESTLER]!"/"[WRESTLER] SUCKS!". Most commonly directed at John Cena, who has turned it into an Ascended Meme, though it has happened to other wrestlers such as William Regal.
    I want all the ladies and kids to chant "Let's go, Cena!", and all the dudes over 20 to chant "Cena sucks!"
  • When someone comes back from a long hiatus to wrestle, there are usually chants of "YOU STILL GOT IT" once they bust out a few maneuvers.
  • During Vince McMahon's Boss character during the Attitude Era, fans were chanting "ASSHOLE! ASSHOLE!" every time he spoke.
  • Starting in early 2002, whenever Kurt Angle came out to the ring, the fans would chant "You Suck!" at him at very specific points in his entrance music. This didn't change during any of his face runs, and it lasted until the end of his WWE career in 2006. Needless to say, his return to WWE in 2017, 11 years later, brought the chant right back, not like he's complaining.
  • At any time a recent face-turned-heel character is dominating in the ring, fans will chant "YOU SOLD OUT! YOU SOLD OUT!"
  • When Brock Lesnar tapped out to Kurt Angle at SummerSlam 2003, fans chanted "YOU TAPPED OUT! YOU TAPPED OUT!" This has become a staple to chant against heels who recently lost by submission.
  • "Hijacking" is when fans will start chanting for random wrestlers when people they really just don't want to see are in the ring, or if they're just bored. Since this is more or less a form of protest against WWE itself fans will often chant for people on bad terms with the company, like CM Punk.
  • On occasion, if fans really hate what's going in the ring, they'll angrily chant for a rival promotion.
    • WWE made the terrible decision to hold King of the Ring 1995 in Philadelphia at a time when ECW was on fire. The terrible Mabel vs. Savio Vega tournament final^note To give you an idea of how incomprehensible a final that was, this same tournament featured 2x WWE World Heavyweight Champion and, at the time, 1/2 of the WWE World Tag Team Champions Yokozuna (who would have been a much better opponent for Diesel if Vince was insisting on doing Tall Guy vs. Fat Guy at SummerSlam), former WWE World Heavyweight Champion The Undertaker and that year's Royal Rumble winner, former WWE World Tag Team Champion and 2x WWE World Tag Team Champion Shawn Michaels. Former Intercontinental champ British Bulldog, the other half of the WWF tag team champions Owen Hart, and former WCW World and U.S. champion Lex Luger were all left off the card entirely for some baffling reason. Probably worth noting that Savio was only in the tournament as a last minute substitute (literally, he defeated IRS in a qualifying match on the preshow) for the injured Razor Ramon, who joined fellow Clique buddy 1-2-3 Kid on the disabled list bombed so completely that the Philly crowd started chanting "ECW! ECW! ECW!" in protest. Mabel earned the right to face Diesel at SummerSlam, which was about as good as you'd expect a match between Kevin Nash and a 500 lb guy that couldn't really work to be^note And nearly severely injured Nash after dropping his massive ass full force onto Nash's back, something Nash had explicitly told Mabel not to do before the match. Nash briefly lost feeling in his legs but was able to continue and Mabel just barely managed to not get himself canned.
    • One time, to protest a truly awful match^note Specifically during a match between a Rosie O'Donnell impersonator and a Donald Trump impersonated by developmental wrestler Chris "Ace Steel" Guy., fans started chanting "T-N-A! T-N-A!", which seemed to shock Vince McMahon. There have been bad matches before, and there will be again, but nothing has ever been bad enough to get a WWE crowd to chant for TNA.
    • On the April 8, 2019 edition of Raw, the crowd was treated to a bait-and-switch when a run-in by The Bar cut short a heavily-hyped match between Kofi Kingston and Seth Rollins in which Kingston's WWE Championship (Raw) and Rollins' Universal Championship (SmackDown) were on the line. Rollins then said that he and Kingston could fight another time, as he wanted Kingston to team with him to take on The Bar. The fans responded by chanting "A-E-W! A-E-W!"
    • The fans broke out the "A-E-W!" chants again that October at the Hell in a Cell event after Rollins was disqualified for using a sledgehammer in a Hell in a Cell match against Bray Wyatt for Rollins' Universal Championship. Keep in mind that HIAC matches are notoriously brutal and are normally no-DQ.
  • "Slut!" when a female heel does something particularly slutty, such as Trish Stratus cheating on Chris Jericho with Christian.
  • Saying "What?" any time someone speaking takes a pause for dramatic effect, to catch their breath, or even because basic grammar demands it. Started by Stone Cold Steve Austin, frequently directed at Kurt Angle.
  • To that same effect, the "YES! YES! YES!" chants popularized by Daniel Bryan also means that something amazing is about to take place, has happened already, or the character(s) have accepted an offer in response to the storyline.
  • Similar to the "YES!" chant, if the crowd wants to decline the offer, the crowd will respond with "NO!" Examples include a wrestler potentially turning heel or about to quit, and the crowd respond with a loud "NO!"
  • "[move name] CITY!" whenever a wrestler uses a move repeatedly. Popularized by Brock Lesnar when he called out "Suplex city, bitch!" during his match against Roman Reigns at Wrestlemania where he used a ton of suplexes against him to attempt to wear him down.
  • "You deserve it!" after a crowd favorite has won a title (or appears to be about to), or when a heel or an extremely hated performer is humiliated.
• Ring of Honor is known for popularizing a few as well.
  • "Please Don't Come Back!" typically directed at new comers who don't wrestle well but sometimes even at established talents the ROH bots are predisposed to dislike for various reasons. Of course, they are likely to chant "Please Come Back!" if someone impresses.
  • "Please Don't Die!" in witness of excessive violence or high spots, most famously chanted at Paul London.
  • "You're Gonna Get Your Fucking Head Kicked In!" to taunt Bryan Danielson's opponents.
  • Also, "He Has Till Five!"
  • "You Got Cock Blocked!" when unsuccessful relationship drama is made into wrestling story lines, started in response to an angle between Rhett Titus, Daizee Haze and Delirious.
  • "Let's Go, Jobber!" first chanted for "Masked Chicago Superstar" at "The Final Showdown"(2005)
  • "Cry, ___, Cry!", most famously at Jimmy Jacobs
  • "We Love Wrestling" (self explanatory).
  • "Brokeback Mountain", for particularly homoerotic events like two men kissing.
  • "Man Up!", it started with The Briscoes and moved on from there.
  • Hilariously, when ROH was purchased by Sinclair Broadcasting (meaning ROH would be syndicated on over-the-air TV) head TV producer Jim Cornette had to send ring announcer Bobby Cruise out before TV tapings to tell the crowd not to chant anything R-rated, as they were now under FCC jurisdiction and it's very difficult to bleep something like a few hundred people chanting "Fuck you [wrestler]!" in post-production without completely ruining the audio.
• A massive part of Progress Wrestling the most common one being "THIS IS PROGRESS" whenever something cool happens.
• If there's one chant that can be said to have originated from TNA / Impact Wrestling, it's the deafening sounds of "DELETE!" and "OBSOLETE!"
• At AIW Absolution V, June 27, 2010, Chuck Taylor tried to start one before his match with Tyler Black. It didn't take:
  "LET'S GO CHUCK TAYLOR YOU'RE THE BEST WRESTLER IN THE WORLD YOU'RE IN WAY BETTER SHAPE THAN TYLER BLACK!"
• Taking some inspiration from ECW, AEW crowds will often chant "A-E-DUB! A-E-DUB!"

Sports

• Sports crowds, in general. Some popular ones:
  • MVP! MVP! MVP!
  • THESE REFS SUCK! THESE REFS SUCK! THESE REFS SUCK! or REFS, YOU SUCK!
  • LET'S GO, (TEAM!) LET'S GO, (TEAM!) LET'S GO, (TEAM!) or GO, (TEAM!), GO!
    • Typically met with the other fans' counter-chant of "(TEAM) SUCKS!"
  • DE-FENSE! DE-FENSE! DE-FENSE!
  • "BULLSHIT! BULLSHIT!", which is usually directed at a referee after making a controversial call, or "ASSHOLE! ASSHOLE!", typically directed at an obnoxious opposing fan.
    • Or their own fans if something truly devastating happens.
• New York Rangers fans used to chant "Potvin sucks!" to jeer Denis Potvin, who played for the Islanders.
  • They still will, even in games not involving the Islanders and despite discouragement from team management - MSG no longer plays "Let's Go Band" because a bunch of fans will always follow it up with "Potvin sucks!" (It doesn't stop fans in the crowd from whistling the song once or twice a game, prompting others to shout "Potvin sucks!" anyway).
• Boston Red Sox fans love to chant "YANKEES SUCK!" so much that sometimes they'll do it even if the Sox are playing someone else.
  • Sometimes the chant will break out during Boston Bruins games. People from Boston really hate the NY Yankees.
  • The Red Sox also play Neil Diamond's "Sweet Caroline" during the middle of the 8th inning with the entire crowd singing along. Everyone in Boston knows the words to the song. The funny part? Neil Diamond was born and raised in New York City.
• The official unofficial crowd chant of the United States of America in any sporting event whatsoever is "U-S-A! U-S-A!" which got its start during the 1980 Olympics (and the Miracle on Ice in particular) and has since spread so that it can possibly come up during any international competition, but still is most often heard during the Olympics.
  • The original USA Dream Team made up of professional basketballers were showered with this during their dominance at 1992 Barcelona games.
  • A typical crowd chant in Professional Wrestling with an All-American Face.
  • Showed up...everywhere really, at the news of Osama bin Laden's death.
  • When the second suspect in the Boston Marathon Bombing was arrested, it happened again.
  • It happened yet again when Team Liquid (The United States) beat LGD (China) at The International, the world championships of Dota 2.
  • During the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing, local crowds took every chance to chant "CHI-NA! CHI-NA!" in English.
• Many college teams, especially those with long histories of success, develop their own chants as a way of cultivating school spirit.
  • In the case of the Florida State University Seminoles, their Tomahawk chop and war cry chant got passed on to the pros via the Atlanta Braves. It's a somewhat stereotypical portrayal of Native American tribes, though at least in FSU's case they have been supported by the Seminole Tribes of Florida (the much larger tribes in Oklahoma are more ambivalent, but for the time being they're not actively opposed).
  • In 1998, a student at the Naval Academy Preparatory School, the official prep school for the US Naval Academy, created a chant for his platoon—"I believe that we will win!" The next year, said student was in the Academy proper, and taught it to a Navy cheerleader, who led the 4,000-strong Brigade of Midshipmen at the annual Army–Navy football game. It's been a standard rallying cry for Navy sports ever since, and thanks to the Army–Navy Game being nationally televised, it has since spread to several other colleges, and most notably got picked up by fans of the US men's national soccer team (see below).
• Football crowds often do this, but their chants are less like chants and more like songs. For instance, Liverpool are famous for singing "You'll Never Walk Alone", and West Ham United are known for singing "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles". International games feature national anthems sung by the masses.
  • This being said, the United States mixes a little of both varieties in both their domestic league and their international games, where they chant such things as the aforementioned "I believe that we will win!", and then sing "Oh When The [Team Nickname]s Go Marching In!"
  • Fans of the Denmark men's national team have chants in their own language, but perhaps their most famous is in English—"We are red, we are white, we are Danish Dynamite!"
  • English fans tend to disparage everyone other then their own team with unique chants, such as “You Scouse Ba***ds” for traveling Liverpool fans, and “What do you think of Tottenham?”, sung towards Spurs by Arsenal Supporters. This can and often does get out of control, with supporters using racial, homophobic, and transphobic stereotypes in the chants, as well as mentioning ugly events in opposing club’s histories, such as United fans singing about the Hillsborough Stadium Disaster in Liverpool. The prevalence of these has led to campaigns to stamp them out.
• Australian Cricket crowds chant "You're going home in the back of a divvy van" when someone gets themselves escorted out of the ground by police.
  • Speaking of Australia in pretty much any international event where one or more Australians are competing the chant of Aussie Aussie Aussie, Oi Oi Oi will be heard, combining this trope with the Call-and-Response Song.
• If your college basketball team is being bombarded with "N-I-T!", it means you're probably going to be qualified for the infamous National Invitation Tournament, which consists of 32 teams who failed to reach the NCAA tournament. Being in this tournament (which used to be as prestigious as the NCAA tournament is today, but has since devolved into March Madness filler for ESPN thanks to NCAA Executive Meddling) is a Fate Worse than Death for a lot of teams, but some lower-profile teams don't view it as harshly.
  • "Thursday Nights, Channel 5!"^note Used to insult teams demoted from the UEFA Champions League the 2nd tier UEFA Europa League. In Britain, until 2012-13 (when ITV4 and BT Sport picked it up) they were broadcast by Channel Five. Unfortunately, "Thursday Nights, channel 24" doesn't have the same ring.
• During the final weeks of the NHL season, disgruntled Toronto Maple Leafs fans may chant "Let's go Blue Jays!" when the team is doing bad — a practice originating from an infamously lopsided game in 2012. Subverted at the start of the 2015 NHL season, when Maple Leafs fans used the chant to show support for the Blue Jays during that year's playoff run.
• Similar to "You'll Never Walk Alone", the NHL has at least two cases of fans taking a song as their own, the St. Louis Blues with [John Denver "Take Me Home, Country Roads"]] (every third period since 2019 has a sing-along) and the Colorado Avalanche with "All the Small Things" (continuing even when the DJ turns off the song).
• Hungarian fans of just about any sport will chant "RIA! RIA! HUNGARIA!" on international sporting events. Another popular one is "HAJRÁ MAGYARORSZÁG, HAJRÁ MAGYAROK!" ("Go Hungary, go Hungarians!")
  • The arguably most popular Hungarian soccer team, Fradi/FTC has a number of idiosyncratic chants used by their fans, such as "MINDENT BELE! MINDENT BELE!" (roughly "Use everything you have!" or "Play with all you've got!") and "HAJRÁ FRADI!" ("Go Fradi!"). There's also the infamous "LILA MAJMOK! LILA MAJMOK!" ("Purple Monkeys! Purple Monkeys!"), meant to jeer on their longtime rival team, Újpest FC, who play in purple colors.
  • If the referee punishes their team, Hungarian fans often chant "SZEMÜVEGET A BÍRÓNAK!" ("Give glasses to the referee!").
• Chants heard at a world gymnastics competition: from Swiss fans, the macaronic "Go, Suisse!" (accompanied by cowbells); from Israeli fans, "Hey, hey, Yisrael!"

Tabletop Games

• Warhammer 40,000: Ork mobs, naturally. One of their early codices was titled "'Ere we go!"

Theatre

• The "U-S-A!" chant appears after the final chess game in the Broadway production of Chess.

Video Games

• OUENDAN!!! OUENDAN!!!
  • And "E! B! A!" in the last level of Elite Beat Agents.
• Playing well in the Super Smash Bros. series may cause the crowd to cheer for you, with a unique chant for each character. In the single player modes of earlier installments, the player can earn a bonus for triggering these. Some even act as Shout Outs relating to the character in question:
  • Donkey Kong's cheer is "DK! Donkey Kong!", a reference to the chorus of the DK Rap from Donkey Kong 64.
  • Ness's cheer is "Super Ness!" a reference to the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, or Super NES.
  • Inkling's cheer is "Staaaay fresh!", a reference to the Squid Sisters' Signing-Off Catchphrase from Splatoon.
  • In Melee, Pikachu's cheer is "Pika, Pika, Pikachu!"
• In Skylanders: Giants, the crowd in the Arena will start chanting your Skylander's name if you do well.
• In Pokémon Sword and Shield, the music for Gym Leader battles begins to include chanting as soon as they're down to their last Pokémon; as gym battles in the Galar Region are a major spectator sport, the implication is that the crowds watching your battle are really getting into it.

Webcomics

• Domain Tnemrot has numerous cases of the crowd cheering their enthusiasm for someone to deal a deathblow.
• Strange School: When Students are watching the Ghoulash fight:
  A group of students has gathered around….
  You hear soft chants of “FIGHT! FIGHT!” getting louder.

Web Animation

Battle for Dream Island Again, in “Taste the Sweetness”, the contestants were making their own ice cream businesses, at “The B.F.D.I.” Pencil makes a market chant to pep up the customers.

Pencil: Open mouth, yeah yeah yeah! Eat ice cream, yeah yeah yeah! So you can taste the sweetness, so you can taste the sweetness! Repeat after me!

Crowd of Customers: Open mouth, yeah yeah yeah! Eat ice cream, yeah yeah yeah! So you can taste the sweetness, so you can taste the sweetness!

Web Original

• Frederick the Great's flute solo introduction in Epic Rap Battles of History is accompanied by chants of his nickname, "Old Fritz".

Western Animation

• Parodied in an episode of Detentionaire, where it's ridiculously easy to get the crowd to chant what you want. Well, up to a point.
  Chaz: You know what I say to that? Down with Prez!
  Crowd: Down with Prez! Down with Prez!
  Cam: People! I'll fix this, gimme a sec! No "down with Prez"... Up with Prez!
  Crowd: Up with Prez! Up with Prez!
  Lee: Wow, these guys'll chant anything.
  Crowd: We'll chant anything! We'll chant anything!
  Chaz: Yeah! Chaz is great! Chaz is g...
  Crowd: ...
  Chaz: Really? C'mon...
• Futurama: In "Why Must I Be a Crustacean in Love?", Decapodians chant "Claw-Plach! Claw-Plach!" as Fry comes close to killing Zoidberg in the ceremonial Decapodian ritual of battle to the death.
• Gravity Falls has lots of this. From one person to a bunch of people, like "USA! USA! USA!" or "Thompson! Thompson! Thompson!".
• The Lion Guard: During Maku's and Pua's Mashindano, most of the animals (the crocodiles in particular) are chanting "Mashindano" in unison.
• Appears during numerous crowd scenes in Recess, almost all of them at Third Street School.
• SpongeBob SquarePants:
  • In "Valentine's Day", when trying to get Patrick to turn around so he can see the chocolate balloon, the Bikini Bottomites chant: "TURN! A! ROUND! TURN! A! ROUND!"
  • In "Squirrel Jokes", the crowd at the Komedy Krab insist SpongeBob get on with his insulting squirrel jokes by shouting nonstop: "SQUIRREL JOKES! SQUIRREL JOKES!"
• Star Trek: Lower Decks:
  • "Envoys": The Engineering staff chant Ensign Sam Rutherford's surname as a way of demonstrating their support of his decision to switch to a different department.
  • "Temporal Edict": When Commander Jack Ransom enters the arena for his Trial by Combat, the Gelrakian spectators shout Vindor's name to cheer for their champion.
  • "Terminal Provocations": Several officers in the mess hall chant "Fletcher!" to encourage him while he chugs down a record-breaking amount of cantaloupe puree.
• Tamagotchi Video Adventures: Masktchi is given a popsicle by a little girl when a gumball machine he wants to take back to Tamagotchi Planet for the museum breaks. Masktchi proposes that his popsicle stick be the relic to represent Earth in the museum's new room and is met with laughing from the others until Cosmotchi shows them the story behind the girl's generosity, and they start to cheer "Mask-tchi! Mask-tchi!" instead when asked whose Earth object should go in the exhibit.

Other

• In 1984, Rev. Jesse Jackson exhorting his Afro-American listeners to run for any public office, led chants of "Run! Run! Run!" When he started his own U.S. presidential campaign, supporters chanted, "Run, Jesse, run!" and "Win, Jesse, win!" In his 1988 campaign, the chant was "Keep hope alive" (which he still uses).
• During Barack Obama's U.S. presidential campaign, his supporters would often chant, "Yes We Can!"^note Detractors who think centrist Obama was some kind of ultra-left-wing menace would do well to remember that "yes we can" came from conservative Republican Ronald Reagan. Obama himself led chants of "Fired up! Ready to go!" which he'd gotten from NAACP worker Edith Childs at one of his campaign stops.
  • Later imitated by Donald Trump's supporters, who would chant "Lock her up!" at rallies in reference to Hillary Clinton, who Trump blamed for the attack on an American embassy in Libya that killed the Ambassador to Libya; he accused her of covering up her negligence by deleting thousands of emails that she had in a private server. Today, President Trump's detractors often chant "Lock him up!"
• When Shigeru Miyamoto showed up at the Nintendo World Store in the autumn of 2005, from the outdoor crowd below, the chants included "Donk-ey Kong! Donk-ey Kong!", "Mar-i-O! Mar-i-O!" and "You are God! You are God!"
• Games Done Quick managed to make Undertale conclude with "HUG THE GOAT!"
• The Runaway Guys Thrown Controllers game show has one whenever a contestant ends up picking "The Devil's Deal" panel^note which, if accepted, makes the game award double points but makes "Brutal Question" appear more frequently. "SELL YOUR SOUL!"

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