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* ''A Song of Ice and Fire: A Clash of Kings'': Sandar Clegane aka The Hound hides in Sansa Starks room, badly wounded mentally and physically. When she comes in, he holds a knife to her throat and threatens to kill her unless she sings. She sings such a sweet song of mercy and peace that he cries. Apparently her song lulls the beast inside him to sleep and touches something human in him, possible preventing him from raping and/or killing her.

** BugsBunny once got a gorilla to stop chasing him by playing the violin. He even mentions the quote that names the trope.

* ''TheMagicFlute''

* In the ''TomAndJerry'' cartoon "The Dancing Bear", the titular bear ends up at Tom's house and Tom tries to call the authorities, but every time the bear hears music he starts to dance with Tom.

* The plot of the TexAvery-directed [[WalterLantz Chilly Willy]] cartoon "The Legend of Rock-a-bye Point" concerns a polar bear trying to get fish from a fishing boat, getting the AngryGuardDog off his back by putting him to sleep with a lullaby, while Chilly sabotages him at every turn.

* ''DoctorWho'': In "The Lazarus Experiment", the Doctor plays a modified organ to defeat the MonsterOfTheWeek.

* ''[[{{ptitlei015gc004kw4}} Pokémon]]'': the move Sing makes the target fall asleep if it is accurate. The Pokémon Lullaby from the Poké Gear works by decreasing the chance of RandomEncounters.

* Referenced in ''[[SpyroTheDragon Spyro: Ripto's Rage]]'' in the Fracture Hills by the [[{{Ptitlefa09ky4q}} bagpipe-playing]] Satyrs. In the final cutscene, the earth-shapers can be seen covering their ears from the music with one of them losing his [[RedEyesTakeWarning red eyes]] and deciding to dance along.

** This concept may have originated in ''SuperMarioBros3'', where the music box power-up puts Hammer Bros., piranha plants and other wandering mini bosses on the map to sleep.

** This concept may have originated in ''SuperMarioBros3'', where the music box power-up puts Hammer Bros., pirana plants and other wandering mini bosses on the map to sleep.

* ''SuperPaperMario'': Piccolo can be used to put the Underchomp to sleep, making the boss battle incredibly easy.

** The third BoskoTheTalkInkKid cartoon "Congo Jazz" has Bosko do this to the tiger who was chasing him in the beginning. Once he has distracted the tiger long enough, he promptly [[DeadBabyComedy kicks him off of a cliff.]]

** The third BoskoTheTalkInkKid cartoon "Congo Jazz" has Bosko do this to the tiger who was chasing him in the beginning. Once he has distracted the tiger long enough, he promptly [[BlackComedy kicks him off of a cliff.]]

* The plot of the TexAvery-directed Chilly Willy cartoon "The Legend of Rock-a-bye Point" concerns a polar bear trying to get fish from a fishing boat, getting the AngryGuardDog off his back by putting him to sleep with a lullaby, while Chilly sabotages him at every turn.

* ''TheIslandOfDoctorMoreau'' (1996). Marlon Brando (as the title character) momentarily soothes the rebellious man-animal hybrids with his piano playing. But when Dr Moreau decides to follow this up by activating their pain implants, he discovers the hard way that they've already been removed.

** In "A Christmas Carol" Abagail's singing calms both the storm and the flying sharks inside it.

* ''TheIslandOfDoctorMoreau'' (1996). Marlon Brando (as the title character) momentarily soothes the rebellious manimals with his piano playing. But when he decides to follow this up by activating their pain implants, he discovers the hard way that they've already been removed.

* Inverted in TheThreeStooges short ''Idle Roomers'', which features a WolfMan who is relatively tame until he hears music. The stooges, mistakenly believing in this trope, decide to play music when confronted by him, activating the Wolf Man's BerserkButton.

* Titano in the ''SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'' episode "Monkey Business".

* ''[[{{ptitlei015gc004kw4}} Pokémon]]'': the move Sing makes the target fall asleep if it is accurate.

** Averted with the PokeFlute and Blue Flute, which awaken sleeping Pokemon.