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* ''An entire tone-deaf band'' makes an appearance in ''VideoGame/BrutalLegend''. Kabagge Boy, the NuMetal BoyBand that Eddie starts out roadying for, is made up of posers with a tween demographic who blend rock, pop, and rap into something so bad that all three musical styles would disown it, then beat it up and take its lunch money. They suffer a KarmicDeath for their terrible music (and [[NoHeroToHisValet their maltreatment of Eddie]]) when Ormagodden shows up. The God of Metal simply ''screams'' at them, and their heads ''fall off''.
* Guybrush Threepwood in ''VideoGame/TheCurseOfMonkeyIsland'' sings incredibly off-key while trying to convince the three Barbary Coast pirates to join his crew. Voice actor Dominic Armato described trying to intentionally sing badly as 'interesting'.
-->'''Edward van Helgen:''' I'm afraid [[SuckinessIsPainful your singing is so bad, it's caused me to have a seizure]].
* Muse from ''VideoGame/DemonGaze2'' begins singing over the radio. The singing is so bad that it causes the radio that the characters are using to explode!
* ''VideoGame/HitmanBloodMoney'': The female assassin posing as a singer in the Dance with the Devil mission sings this way.
* In ''VideoGame/LunarTheSilverStar'', the bar in Meryod has a dancing girl who sings just like the other dancing girls except horribly off-key and off the beat.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Miitopia}}'', one skill the Pop Star has is "Out of Tune", which causes them to sing so badly that it damages enemies (and teammates as well).



* ''An entire tone-deaf band'' makes an appearance in ''VideoGame/BrutalLegend''. Kabagge Boy, the NuMetal BoyBand that Eddie starts out roadying for, is made up of posers with a tween demographic who blend rock, pop, and rap into something so bad that all three musical styles would disown it, then beat it up and take its lunch money. They suffer a KarmicDeath for their terrible music (and [[NoHeroToHisValet their maltreatment of Eddie]]) when Ormagodden shows up. The God of Metal simply ''screams'' at them, and their heads ''fall off.''
* ''VideoGame/HitmanBloodMoney'', The female assassin posing as a singer in the Dance with the Devil mission sings this way.
* Edy Nelson from ''VideoGame/ValkyriaChronicles'', when she actually attempts to sing Rosie's song. The results? She ends up flooring everyone within earshot of her, and not in a good way. Even Homer, who normally can take her usual punishment, can't take her singing. She'd better stick with just acting.
** Her sister from ''VideoGame/ValkyriaChroniclesII'', Anisette, is also tone deaf, which might explain why she's the only person ever to be able to tolerate her sister's singing. Despite that, she's actually good at singing.
** Vario, also from [=VC2=]. A celebrity wannabe/ CaptainErsatz of Elvis, this guy has quite the horrifying voice when he attempts to sing. He does improve, however.
* ''VideoGame/SaintsRow''
** In ''VideoGame/SaintsRow2'', the player has has 6 different voices to choose from when customizing [[PlayerCharacter the Boss]], and each gets two songs they sing along to on the radio, each one [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9BoIEY4xA4 sharing "Take On Me" by A-ha]] and getting one other unique song per voice. The songs range from [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKdV7aMMK10 The Final Countdown]], to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVgDXg9Wnf8 Sister Christian]], and your character can not sing worth a shit to any of them.

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* ''An entire tone-deaf band'' makes an appearance in ''VideoGame/BrutalLegend''. Kabagge Boy, the NuMetal BoyBand that Eddie starts out roadying for, is made up of posers with a tween demographic who blend rock, pop, and rap into something so bad that all three musical styles would disown it, then beat it up and take its lunch money. They suffer a KarmicDeath for their terrible music (and [[NoHeroToHisValet their maltreatment of Eddie]]) when Ormagodden shows up. The God of Metal simply ''screams'' at them, and their heads ''fall off.''
* ''VideoGame/HitmanBloodMoney'', The female assassin posing as a singer in the Dance with the Devil mission sings this way.
* Edy Nelson from ''VideoGame/ValkyriaChronicles'', when she actually attempts to sing Rosie's song. The results? She ends up flooring everyone within earshot of her, and not in a good way. Even Homer, who normally can take her usual punishment, can't take her singing. She'd better stick with just acting.
** Her sister from ''VideoGame/ValkyriaChroniclesII'', Anisette, is also tone deaf, which might explain why she's the only person ever to be able to tolerate her sister's singing. Despite that, she's actually good at singing.
** Vario, also from [=VC2=]. A celebrity wannabe/ CaptainErsatz of Elvis, this guy has quite the horrifying voice when he attempts to sing. He does improve, however.
* ''VideoGame/SaintsRow''
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** In ''VideoGame/SaintsRow2'', the player has has 6 different voices to choose from when customizing [[PlayerCharacter the Boss]], and each gets two songs they sing along to on the radio, each one [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9BoIEY4xA4 sharing "Take On Me" by A-ha]] and getting one other unique song per voice. The songs range from [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKdV7aMMK10 The Final Countdown]], to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVgDXg9Wnf8 Sister Christian]], and your character can not cannot sing worth a shit to any of them.



* Guybrush Threepwood in ''VideoGame/TheCurseOfMonkeyIsland'' sings incredibly off-key while trying to convince the three Barbary Coast pirates to join his crew. Voice actor Dominic Armato described trying to intentionally sing badly as 'interesting'.
-->'''Edward van Helgen:''' I'm afraid [[SuckinessIsPainful your singing is so bad, it's caused me to have a seizure]].
* In ''VideoGame/YakuzaDeadSouls'', Majima can sing at karaoke clubs. His singing is off-tempo, off-key, and peppered with his unique combination of Kansai dialect and yakuza accent. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooFoNwoMxjY It must be seen to be believed.]]
** What's more, ''Yakuza 0'' proves that Majima ''can'' sing well if he wants to - it's just that, 20 years onward, he stopped giving two shits.



* In ''VideoGame/LunarTheSilverStar'', the bar in Meryod has a dancing girl who sings just like the other dancing girls except horribly off-key and off the beat.



* In ''VideoGame/{{Miitopia}}'', one skill the Pop Star has is “Out Of Tune”, which causes them to sing so badly that it damages enemies (and teammates as well).
* Muse from ''VideoGame/DemonGaze2'' begins singing over the radio. The singing is so bad that it causes the radio that the characters are using to explode!

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* In ''VideoGame/{{Miitopia}}'', one skill the Pop Star has is “Out Of Tune”, which causes them ''VideoGame/ValkyriaChronicles'':
** Edy Nelson, when she actually attempts
to sing so badly that it damages enemies (and teammates as well).
* Muse
Rosie's song. The results? She ends up flooring everyone within earshot of her, and not in a good way. Even Homer, who normally can take her usual punishment, can't take her singing. She'd better stick with just acting.
** Her sister
from ''VideoGame/DemonGaze2'' begins singing over ''VideoGame/ValkyriaChroniclesII'', Anisette, is also tone deaf, which might explain why she's the radio. The only person ever to be able to tolerate her sister's singing. Despite that, she's actually good at singing.
** Vario, also from ''[=VC2=]''. A celebrity Elvis CaptainErsatz/wannabe, this guy has quite the horrifying voice when he attempts to sing. He does improve, however.
* In ''VideoGame/YakuzaDeadSouls'', Majima can sing at karaoke clubs. His
singing is so bad off-tempo, off-key, and peppered with his unique combination of Kansai dialect and yakuza accent. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooFoNwoMxjY It must be seen to be believed.]] What's more, ''VideoGame/Yakuza0'' proves that it causes the radio Majima ''can'' sing well if he wants to -- it's just that the characters are using to explode!20 years onward, he stopped giving two shits.
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* Wei Shen in ''VideoGame/SleepingDogs'', if you play the karaoke minigame badly. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1TM9dQLR8I Observe.]]

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* Wei Shen in ''VideoGame/SleepingDogs'', ''VideoGame/SleepingDogs2012'', if you play the karaoke minigame badly. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1TM9dQLR8I Observe.]]
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* In ''VideoGame/YakuzaDeadSouls'', Majima can sing at karaoke clubs. His singing is off-tempo, off-key, and peppered with his unique combination of KansaiRegionalDialect and yakuza accent. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooFoNwoMxjY It must be seen to be believed.]]

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* In ''VideoGame/YakuzaDeadSouls'', Majima can sing at karaoke clubs. His singing is off-tempo, off-key, and peppered with his unique combination of KansaiRegionalDialect Kansai dialect and yakuza accent. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooFoNwoMxjY It must be seen to be believed.]]
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* In one of the voiced dramas for ''VideoGame/RivieraThePromisedLand'', Serene's singing ability comes up. She's supposed to be a very bad singer, but when she actually has to sing part of a spell to save her friend Polly, she performs it without any screeching. Her voice isn't particularly strong, but she's not tone-deaf, so it's something of a subversion.
* ''An entire tone-deaf band'' makes an appearance in ''VideoGame/BrutalLegend''. Kabagge Boy, the NuMetal BoyBand that Eddie starts out roadying for, is made up of posers with a tween demographic who blend rock, pop, and rap into something so bad that all three musical styles would disown it, then beat it up and take its lunch money. They suffer a KarmicDeath for their terrible music (and [[NoHeroToHisValet their maltreatment of Eddie]]) when Ormagodden shows up. The God of Metal simply ''screams'' at them, and their heads ''fall off.''
* ''VideoGame/HitmanBloodMoney'', The female assassin posing as a singer in the Dance with the Devil mission sings this way.
* Edy Nelson from ''VideoGame/ValkyriaChronicles'', when she actually attempts to sing Rosie's song. The results? She ends up flooring everyone within earshot of her, and not in a good way. Even Homer, who normally can take her usual punishment, can't take her singing. She'd better stick with just acting.
** Her sister from ''VideoGame/ValkyriaChroniclesII'', Anisette, is also tone deaf, which might explain why she's the only person ever to be able to tolerate her sister's singing. Despite that, she's actually good at singing.
** Vario, also from [=VC2=]. A celebrity wannabe/ CaptainErsatz of Elvis, this guy has quite the horrifying voice when he attempts to sing. He does improve, however.
* ''VideoGame/SaintsRow''
** In ''VideoGame/SaintsRow2'', the player has has 6 different voices to choose from when customizing [[PlayerCharacter the Boss]], and each gets two songs they sing along to on the radio, each one [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9BoIEY4xA4 sharing "Take On Me" by A-ha]] and getting one other unique song per voice. The songs range from [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKdV7aMMK10 The Final Countdown]], to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVgDXg9Wnf8 Sister Christian]], and your character can not sing worth a shit to any of them.
** The male voice that sings to "Sister Christian" actually semi-raps it, occasionally improvising spoken word nonsense like "cuz you're a bitch!" and "aaah! Man! Guitars and shit!" at the end of lines. Not even trying.
** Pierce, similarly, can't sing well. At all. This is played for laughs throughout the series, although he and the Boss generally get better by ''VideoGame/SaintsRowTheThird'' and ''VideoGame/SaintsRowIV'' when they sing "What I Got" and "[[Music/PaulaAbdul Opposites Attract]]", respectively. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AJH4rcOlG0 "Generally" being the operative word.]]
** The key example is in ''The Third'' when Pierce sings fictional pop diva Aisha's "Bounce Like My Checks" from the [[VideoGame/SaintsRow1 first game]], while dressed in drag as her to lure out a mutant Johnny Gat clone. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QruT8Pw6hA It has to be seen to be believed.]]
* Guybrush Threepwood in ''VideoGame/TheCurseOfMonkeyIsland'' sings incredibly off-key while trying to convince the three Barbary Coast pirates to join his crew. Voice actor Dominic Armato described trying to intentionally sing badly as 'interesting'.
-->'''Edward van Helgen:''' I'm afraid [[SuckinessIsPainful your singing is so bad, it's caused me to have a seizure]].
* In ''VideoGame/YakuzaDeadSouls'', Majima can sing at karaoke clubs. His singing is off-tempo, off-key, and peppered with his unique combination of KansaiRegionalDialect and yakuza accent. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooFoNwoMxjY It must be seen to be believed.]]
** What's more, ''Yakuza 0'' proves that Majima ''can'' sing well if he wants to - it's just that, 20 years onward, he stopped giving two shits.
* Wei Shen in ''VideoGame/SleepingDogs'', if you play the karaoke minigame badly. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1TM9dQLR8I Observe.]]
* In ''VideoGame/LunarTheSilverStar'', the bar in Meryod has a dancing girl who sings just like the other dancing girls except horribly off-key and off the beat.
* In ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure2'''s Chao Garden, if a Chao learns to sing from being given a parrot their singing will upset other Chao nearby, compared to if they learned how to sing from being taken to the Chao Kindergarten.
* As one of the Japanese promos for ''VideoGame/SuperMarioOdyssey'', Nintendo made a version of Jump Up Super Star featuring Toad, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o31YJDrnWb0 which sounds exactly like this.]]
* In ''VideoGame/{{Miitopia}}'', one skill the Pop Star has is “Out Of Tune”, which causes them to sing so badly that it damages enemies (and teammates as well).
* Muse from ''VideoGame/DemonGaze2'' begins singing over the radio. The singing is so bad that it causes the radio that the characters are using to explode!
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