Sandbox / Bad To The Bone Wick Check

Lists a song name but no other descriptive context of the song or the scene (27/50)

• MCU: Tony Stark: Incoming Ham: His arrival at the Stark Expo in the second movie, and appearing in Germany with guns blazing and hijacking S.H.I.E.L.D.'s audio systems to play AC/DC in The Avengers.
• Skam: Bad to the Bone: Rolls up to school with Penetrator-Chris and other friends, and gets out of the car with everyone in the school yard watching, then walks in slow-motion, to "Illest Motherfucker Alive" by Kanye West and Jay Z.
• Alternative Rock: Republica only had one Top 10 hit in their native UK. Surprisingly, it wasn't "Ready to Go", which only reached #13. Instead, their sole Top 10 was the long-forgotten "Drop Dead Gorgeous", a #7 hit. Easily averted stateside, where "Ready to Go" hit #7 on the alternative charts and #56 on the Hot 100, compared to "Drop Dead Gorgeous" only reaching #39 and #93 respectively. Not to mention, "Ready to Go" was used in numerous media in America at the time (while "Drop Dead Gorgeous" was not), further making it better known to the US. While "Ready to Go" has always been the only song by them most Americans can name, even in the UK it's become all they're remembered for.
• Tin Can Brothers: In lieu of classy Classical Music, episode 3 of Spilled Milk goes for the most hackneyed choice available for a melancholy Lost Love Montage, Gary Jules' cover of "Mad World" from Donnie Darko.
• Tropes A to C:
  • Alluded to but never implemented in Episode 5 when Vegeta tells the Arlian king, "I'm about to rock you...like a hurricane" in reference to the projectile Chunky Updraft.
  • Used again by Vegeta by in the stinger for episode 27, complete with the music... till Freeza stops it dead in its tracks, prompting the comment he should've known it was just a one-hit wonder. No description of what was mentioned this time.
• Dazed and Confused: It's a movie about the last day of school set in 1976, so, yeah, the final bell scene is done to the tune of "School's Out".
• Detroit Rock City: Given the rock-heavy soundtrack, some songs are obviously used to underscore badass moments. Hawk's response to disco bullies earns "Iron Man", Lex rescuing Christine has "Whole Lotta Rosie", Jam gets his drumsticks back with "Running with the Devil"...
• Kick-Ass: The theme of For a Few Dollars More plays while Hit-Girl enters the D'Amico building. Also, the Battle Hymn of the Republic, sung by Elvis Presley, when Kick-Ass arrives flying on the Jetpack to save the day.
• Lean on Me: The movie's present-day sequence opens with a memorable shot of Eastside High having long slid into decay, with Guns N' Roses' "Welcome to the Jungle" blasting as delinquents throng the halls.
• The Expendables 2: Chuck Norris' first two appearances in the film draw a Leitmotif from another, older, badass - namely, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
• The Smurfs: AC/DC's "Back In Black" plays when Patrick Winslow and the Smurfs pay a visit to Belvedere Castle to free Papa Smurf from Gargamel.
• Jessica Jones (2015): Another teaser has Jessica putting "Bad Reputation" to play as she walks to her shot of whiskey, passing by a lot of beaten up people.
• GoTG - Tropes A to C: They pull off this one with "Cherry Bomb" by The Runaways.
• Beastie Boys: "Sabotage" has been heard in every other movie since it came out, including not one, not two, but three Chris Pine movies: the 2009 Star Trek reboot, the third installment of the ensuing trilogy, and This Means War (2012).
• Del Amitri: "Roll to Me" is the quintessential rom-com theme, at least according to Seth MacFarlane.
• Disturbed: Any time the familiar drum opening or staccato howl from Down with the Sickness is heard in a film, something violent is probably going to happen. At least gives a description about the actual song, but no examples of what films it could be referring to.
• Icona Pop: "I Love It" became a big hit as a result of this. First it was featured in the soundtrack of Criterion Games' Need for Speed: Most Wanted (2012), then it was the Theme Song to the reality show Snooki & J-Woww, then it was used in episodes of Girls and The Vampire Diaries, and then later a Samsung commercial used the song, as did countless KFC commercials in Australia from 2018 onward. As you can imagine, the media made it hard to avoid.
• James Brown: "I Got You (I Feel Good)" has been used in many movie scenes with happy people. It is also a Standard Snippet in comedy trailers.
• Katrina and the Waves: Wanna underscore your scene with a song about feeling good, but James Brown is too obvious? Cue up "Walking on Sunshine"! The song earns over $200,000 annually in royalties for this exact reason.
• Let It Bleed: "Gimme Shelter" is a very popular soundtrack choice to implement trouble is in the air.
• New Radicals: Just how many movies, TV shows, and trailers have you heard the song "You Get What You Give" in?
• The Monkees: "Pleasant Valley Sunday" has become a popular alternative to "Yakety Sax" for zany chase scenes.
• Survivor (Band): "Eye of the Tiger" is frequently used in this manner, when it's not being used for a Training Montage.
• Father Ted S1E4 "Competition Time": After committing himself to shooting Henry with the tranquilliser, Sergeant Deegan decides to run into the clearing while Ted and Dougal make noise to lure his target. Cue “Flight of the Valkyries”.
• Supernatural S 14 E 06 Optimism: Anyone who watches Supernatural knows Winston is doomed when "Staying Alive" cues and Winston starts the "Lucky with the ladies" dance that normally goes with it.
• The Simpsons S 5 E 6 Marge On The Lam: Parodied. Ruth places a cassette of Guns N' Roses' "Welcome to the Jungle" in her car stereo to show she's a rebel, but plays Lesley Gore's "Sunshine, Lollipops and Rainbows" instead for a few seconds before switching to the proper tape. Wiggum puts a tape with the same song into his squad car's stereo as he prepares to give chase to Marge and Ruth in a later scene but he just starts happily singing alongside Homer.
• The Ring of the Nibelung: The Looney Tunes series is very fond particularly of the Nibelung and Giant motifs in heralding any sinister doings.

Just using the name as a stock phrase/referring to the trope namer (14/50)

• Terminator: And T2 uses two of the most badass songs ever - one even names a trope.
• ClayFighter: Face–Heel Turn: Maybe he wasn't so bad in the past, but after being mutated as a Clayfighter, Lockjaw became REALLY bad as is stated in his Sculpter's Cut story:
  This is one dog who is Bad to the Bone!
• Megamind: Leitmotif: George Thorogood's "Bad to the Bone", which is neatly woven into the score and plays in almost every scene he's being featured, whether openly or subtly.
• Rock Music: George Thorogood's highest charter on mainstream rock went to #2. "Bad to the Bone"? Nope, that peaked at a measly #27 and got outpeaked thirteen times. It was the long-forgotten "Get a Haircut", which was released in 1993, well after his peak in overall popularity. He also only had one entry on the Hot 100, but again, it wasn't "Bad" but rather his cover "Willie and the Hand Jive". Of course, the real reason for why "Bad" has eclipsed his other work is that the song was used in media so many times that it named a trope after it. His second best-known song, "One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer", never charted at all.
• Hottie 3: The Best Fan Fic in the World: The Trope Namer song is in the fan fiction's soundtrack.
• Major Payne: This song is used in the opening credits to set the tone of Major Payne.
• Problem Child: Junior's Leitmotif is George Thorogood and the Destroyers' "Bad To The Bone", and the opening riff sounds pretty often when he's causing mayhem.
• Terminator 2: Judgment Day
  • The Trope Namer song plays as the T-800 is first shown in leather clothes.
  • Guns N' Roses's "You Could be Mine" plays in the boombox John Connor's friend is carrying as they ride around on his motorcycle. Another ZCE.
• The Muppets (2011): Both the trope naming song ("Bad to the Bone") and "Back in Black" are used for this purpose.
• The Parent Trap (1998): When Hallie shows up in sunglasses to challenge Annie in poker, Bad to the Bone starts up, playing through their hotly-contested poker match.
• A To M: "Bad to the Bone" is not by ZZ Top. It's George Thorogood. Also, it's not by Bo Diddley, either. The song's guitar riff was borrowed from "I'm a Man," which is over twenty years older. George Thorogood acknowledged this by having Bo Diddley appear in the video.
• The Amazing World of Gumball S1E18 "The Refund": When Richard grows his mustache, the (public domain) chord featured in the Trope Namer plays.
• Yu Gi Oh The Abridged Series S 2 E 5 She Blinded Me With Card Games: * Badass Biker: Tristan is suddenly one because he claims that the future is card games on motorbikes, which would just be silly.
  (Tristan shows up on a motorbike while "Bad to the Bone" plays)
• Tropes Q to Z: Worst News Judgement Ever: Every now and then on Weekend Update, often for the sake of a punchline, but some are salvageable:
  Cecily Strong: Two dogs from Oklahoma went for a three-block ride in their owner's car, after one of the dogs accidentally knocked the vehicle into gear, and the other dog accidentally opened up a map to Las Vegas, and then the first dog (Colin Jost laughing from offscreen) accidentally put on sunglasses, and then the second dog accidentally put on "Bad to the Bone", and then they hit a tree.

Assumes the trope is about literal bones (5/50)

• RuneScape: Her weapon of choice, Dorgeshuun crossbow, is made of bone. She uses a poisoned bone dagger as well.
• Spore Wiki Fiction Universe Supernaturals: His weapons were made out of his own skeletal structure.
• Ward Earth Shin: His power includes manipulating the bones of his own body to the degree of creating constructs. He's also quite known for being particularly good at finding creative ways to take advantage of powers, so much so that Lord Of Loss credits him with helping improve his combat abilities.
• Lanfeust: Some trolls use big bones as blunt weapons.
• Dawn of Crafting: Crafted from Animals: You can make equipment, including armor, on top of other items, out of animals' fur. There are also Neanderthal recipes which create tools that use sharpened bone.

ZCE (3/50)

• Original Character RP: Bad to the Bone Used as part of an additionally improper index of Necromancer tropes devoid of description. I think the writer of this fundamentally misunderstood what this trope was and just assumed "bone" = "literal skeletons" without checking.
• Twitch Plays Pokémon Red Anniversary: Bad to the Bone
• Lorde: Her songs have seen a lot of use in movie trailers, commercials, and video game soundtracks within a year of her debut.

Other Misuse (1/50)

• Lord of War: Buffalo Springfield's "For What It's Worth", played on the intro. Also counts as Soundtrack Dissonance, but only because of the easygoing beat. The lyrics are a notable case of Bad to the Bone; "There's a man with a gun over there", "There's battle lines being drawn/Nobody's right if everybody's wrong", "Singing songs and carrying signs/Mostly say, hooray for our side", etc. This entry is weird in going back and forth on whether or not the song is fitting or not. I believe that it is, but while it highlights seemingly relevant lyrics, there isn't any context of the actual movie itself that they allude to being described here.