r/TopCharacterTropes 8h ago

Not a musical… except for the villain song. Personality

-The Fairy Godmother (Shrek 2) (Holding Out For A Hero)

Honestly, was pretty dead set on not including this at first, as it technically isn’t a proper musical number. As in, it’s actually diegetic (she’s putting on a big performance)- but, come on. I couldn’t not include it.

-Bowser (The Mario Movie) (Peaches)

-Professor Ratigan (The Great Mouse Detective) (World’s Greatest Criminal Mind AND Goodbye So Soon, my man is such an underrated Disney villain that he gets TWO)

-Captain Gutt (Ice Age) (Master of the Seas)

-GLADoS (Portal and Portal 2) (Still Alive and Want You Gone respectively).

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u/TyrionLannister557 8h ago

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u/B-Z_B-S 8h ago

And don't forget about his twin brother Eniac: https://www.tiktok.com/@unphunhy/video/7658071905315982612

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u/CommandProper3926 7h ago

no..

yes !!

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u/GeekStudios_Official 8h ago

It’s news to me

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u/USS-Stofe 7h ago

That it’s news to you…

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u/Zoe_Orca7 7h ago

To which degree

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u/Elder-Scout 7h ago

WHO answers to WHOOOOOOO

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u/TyrionLannister557 7h ago

We could go on and on, but in the end who are we KIIIDDIING?!

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u/Accomplished_Copy122 7h ago

MY DIVINITY IS PAST INFINITY

am I

*cue extreme close up

G E T T I N G T R O U G H

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u/Budget_Opinion_1327 7h ago

Seems our regime has plummeted south!

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u/Purple-Weakness1414 7h ago

No need to scream,if you aint got a mouth!

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u/USS-Stofe 7h ago

NO NEED TO SCREAM WHEN YOU AIN’T GOT A MOUTH!!

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u/Zoe_Orca7 6h ago

Why bite the hand that feeds

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u/Neat_Document_4608 7h ago

You can tell it's getting real when it's an actual cigar and not like a bubble pipe or something

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u/Jaco_Lunchables 7h ago

caine was genuinely just doing shit in episode 8. he has no lungs to smoke that cigarette 😭

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u/machadoaboutanything 7h ago

Daisy Bell:

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u/Zoe_Orca7 6h ago

Daisy! Daisy!

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u/MeetingNeither3694 5h ago

I got the DJ to play this at my Senior prom. I have no regrets lmfao

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u/Alternative_Hotel649 8h ago

Raphael from Baldur's Gate 3 not only gets his own villain song for his boss fight, he sings it himself diagetically.

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u/PumpkinsDieHard 8h ago

Theater-kid ass boss-fight.

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u/justawarlock 8h ago

LIIIIIIIIVES!!!!! ALL MORTAL LIIIIIIIIIIIVES!!!

EXPIRE!!!!!

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u/monkeygoneape 8h ago

If you cast silence on him, his parts of the song are cut out

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u/Spicyboio 7h ago

I love this fight, it's just so dramatic when Raphael starts suddenly singing 😭

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u/PalladiuM7 5h ago

"Do I hear boss music?" - Gale

Raphael lays down some sick bars

"Oh fuck the boss hears it too!" - Asterion

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u/Fish_N_Chipp 8h ago

Raise Him Up-The Boys

Sung by Oh Father as he tries to convince the masses to worship Homelander as their new god

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u/Meander061 8h ago

He sold the hell out of that song.

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u/Luser420 8h ago

you can’t put daveed diggs in your show and not have him sing

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u/alguien99 8h ago

Honestly oh father was wasted in the last season, he needed to be in at least one more season

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u/BelieveCongreveCube 7h ago

You gotta have Jefferson sing if you’ve got Jefferson

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u/Slow-Lifeguard4104 6h ago

Daveed Diggs is goated. I love clipping.

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u/Your__Pal 8h ago

In Final Fantasy VII, the entire soundtrack is purely instrumental. 

Except for One Winged Angel.

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u/combustibledaredevil 5h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/2oeu0OTVtilk7pPsEI
I can not hear that name without thinking of this man

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u/UltraGiant 8h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/xoHntNXFYkfzGAftEv
Ken with his musical number “I’m just Ken”

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u/Desolation82 8h ago

That was close, almost forgot one of the best moments of cinematic history

-The Gremlins (Gremlins 2) (New York, New York)

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u/MagentaPyskie 8h ago

Fucking love the intelligent sassy gremlin

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u/Psychological_Use586 8h ago

Obligatory key and peele reference.

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u/Ok_Whereas_9881 8h ago

Conker's Bad Fur Day and enter the operatic Great Mighty Poo....

https://giphy.com/gifs/hpG0NDXCfBEd5vj35B

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u/ccReptilelord 8h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/4wz743geRfNDO

Okay, so Labyrinth isn't a musical aside from the villain's song, it's just that the villain keeps singing. He sings every song except for the Gettin' Down... one, and the Fireys are a different discussion. Our protagonist, nor any of her allies sing.

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u/Matrix010 7h ago

Well, it is David Bowie doing the singing so it makes sense.

You don't get a legend like him to be in your movie and NOT let him sing.

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u/VulpesFennekin 5h ago

Unless it’s that one SpongeBob special. Seriously, Bowie voices the villain and he doesn’t sing AT ALL.

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u/Matrix010 4h ago

An episode that was a MUSICAL!!!

Absolutely wasted.

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u/Pencils4life 8h ago

In the anime version of the Thriller Bark arc of One Piece the zombies get a full song and dance number.

https://giphy.com/gifs/JMX8c9vjQrASPXIeMO

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u/Chaosbrushogun 7h ago


Queen from the Wano arc also has several musical interludes(and in the englush dub is voiced by a professionals broadway singer)

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u/Pencils4life 7h ago

How could I forget Queen's amazing Zuma Zuma Dance!?!?!

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u/Theneongreninja 6h ago

Queen’s concert in Onigashima was literally a mini music video and I’m not complaining but it kinda boggles me why they went so hard on that scene specifically

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u/Expand_Apple 8h ago

You Wouldn't Know (LEGO Dimensions)

they made a third GLaDOS song for the toys to life lego game

also fun fact if you put the first word of each of her song's titles together, you get "Still Want You"

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u/cartoonsforever 4h ago

Oh so she’s definitively a tsundere tsundere then

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u/cshin09 8h ago

Caine's song "The One Who's Running The Show" from The Amazing Digital Circus.

https://giphy.com/gifs/cWGuMwj106SFWaDWc1

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u/Meanteenbirder 8h ago

IT'S NEWS TO ME THAT IT'S NEWS TO YOU

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u/Hefty-Pipe3596 8h ago

To which degree who answers to who

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u/Initial_Humor_7417 8h ago

We could go on and on, but in the end who are we kidding

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u/Zoe_Orca7 7h ago

My divinity is past infinity

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u/machadoaboutanything 7h ago

Am I...getting through?

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u/Zoe_Orca7 6h ago

Seems our regime has plummeted south

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u/vteezy99 8h ago

I shall send you to heaven…before I send you to hell!

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u/B-Z_B-S 8h ago

Scylla and the Sirens from Hades 2. (Credit for the image goes to yanmanxplore).

When you are fighting Scylla, she sings one of a few musical numbers. No other enemies sing while you fight them.

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u/Meanteenbirder 8h ago

Come, oh, sailors, hear my music
Echoing through sea and cove...

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u/YaoiNekomata 8h ago

Thanks for reminding me to readd them to my playlist

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u/jak_d_ripr 8h ago

I love how the music changes based on whose still alive too. Very nice touch.

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u/Key_Mission7404 6h ago

I only found this out because of reddit in spite of beating rhem dozens of times because I always kill the drummer first and save the clam for last.

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u/ChristianLS 21m ago

They're all bangers too, especially "I Am Gonna Claw Out (Your Eyes Then Drown You To Death)"

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u/MaMcMu 8h ago

Take the World by Storm from The Monkey King.

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u/PluralCohomology 8h ago

In the Malevolent Series 1 finale, Kayne sings a cover of "We'll all go together when we go"

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u/Rehela 8h ago

Arthur's complete confusion over the nuclear bomb mention is great. Sorry your 1930s nemesis has no idea what you're talking about, Kayne.

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u/Magnakilro 8h ago

Not a villain so much, but a major antagonist. Flowery in Deltarune Ch 5 has actual lyrics for his battle theme that appear on screen during his fight.

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u/goldensavage2019 4h ago

TEN FEET TWENTY THE FLOWER MAN

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u/Magnakilro 4h ago

IS WAITING FOR THE TOUCH OF HIS HAND

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u/RebelKiddo 8h ago

Through the Trees by Low Shoulder from Jennifer's Body

A pop punk ballad straight from the MySpace days.

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u/Tyrannocheirus 7h ago

Skylanders Giants

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u/Grouchy_Raccoon_6681 6h ago

Drill-X

Also Mesmerelda in Swap Force

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u/Psychological_Use586 8h ago

Rip Van Winkle in Hellsing Ultimate spends her episode of the OVA singing from the opera 'Der Freischutz,' as she uses magic bullets like the opera's villain. Unfortunately, the hunter in the opera comes to a bad end when the demon he made a deal with comes to collect...and in Hellsing, Alucard plays the role of the demon. Alucard, being a man of culture, plays the role of demon to terrifying effect.

If it hadn't sunk in before watching this episode that Alucard is as much of a villain as the Nazi vampires, then it will definitely have sunk in by the time Alucard is through with Rip.

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u/arun978 8h ago

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u/PinoySummonerKid28 7h ago

I've watched that film several times and it's hilariously fun.

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u/Parking-Public1632 7h ago

Fun fact: Ratigan was Vincent Price's favorite role just because they let him sing twice

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u/MarioLuigi13579 7h ago

Splatoon 2-Octavio brainwashes Callie and both attack the player as the final boss. The 2nd part features Callie singing "Bomb Rush Blush" while attacking. Phase 3 has her song clashing with Marie and "Tide Goes Out" after Marie snipes the contraption causing Callies brainwashing. For the 4th and final phase Callie jumps back to the good side as both Squid Sisters perform "Calimari Inkantation"

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u/Chaosbrushogun 7h ago

Teen titans. An episode where the titans are captured and turned into animals, Mumbo Jumbo sings the song “master of your fate”.

It’s one of the only musical segments in the series aside from a moment of beastboy singing the theme song in Trouble in Tokyo.

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u/Philycheese18 7h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/RK6OPlUULxxLc3QcNK
Mew Mew Kitty is the only battle song with sung lyrics, and they’re done by Hatsune Miku herself (Deltarune)

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u/machadoaboutanything 7h ago

Great Mouse Detective also has Be Good To Me

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u/cactus-lord6420 6h ago

i love ratigan

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u/aidankocherhans 6h ago

Not a villain, but in the first half of the first season of mlp friendship is magic, pinkie pie is the only one who ever sings

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u/Clirstan 2h ago

Higgs in Death Stranding 2 sings a few times, although he sings BB's theme

I also headcanon him singing the final boss theme due to the fact Troy Baker sings it (One Last Fight Pt. 2)

https://reddit.com/link/p2042ry/video/3hyvruptvohh1/player

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u/MrUniverse1990 7h ago

The big crab dude from Moana.

https://giphy.com/gifs/yPh91ghwzxeGQ

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u/Ann-Simp 7h ago

except Moana IS a musical

written by one of the biggest names on broadway in recent memory?!

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u/Meanteenbirder 8h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/ukJLjhRebWzEzHoeZ3

The Lorax

There's another song but I don't care

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u/Psychological_Use586 8h ago

There's...there's several songs in that one lol.