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-->'''Dangeresque:''' Don't do this dad, you have to hang on! [[Music/BetteMidler Did you ever know that you're my hero]]? [[Music/TheCarpenters We've only just begun]]! You're the wind beneath my wings! [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers Umm... She Bop?]]

** You can quote Music/{{DMX}}'s "Where The Hood At" at your Shivers skill, and it replies in kind:
--->'''You:''' Where the hood, where the hood, where the hood at?\\

** The Electrochemistry skill will reference Music/FatboySlim's "The Rockafeller Skank", as you [[spoiler:extract the bullet which has punched a hole in the Hanged Man's basal ganglia]]:

** When you are trying to listen to [[spoiler:the beat of the pale]], and the Old Church is collapsing around you as a result, you can loudly shout out a line of Music/WhitneyHouston's "I Wanna Dance With Somebody" at the unfolding pandemonium, and Egg Head, the MC who is present at the event will quote you right back:
--->'''You:''' OH, I WANT TO DANCE WITH SOMEBODY!\\

'''You:''' Walla-walla-bing-bang?\\

* Many units in ''VideoGame/WarcraftIII'' will spout song lyrics as their StopPokingMe lines.
** By extension, ''VideoGame/{{Starcraft}}'' as well.
*** On a particular note was Lt. Duran from ''Brood War'', who was prone to (of course) reciting Music/DuranDuran lyrics when poked.
** In ''VideoGame/WarcraftII'', the cheat code to instantly research all magic spells was "[[Music/ThePolice every little thing she does]]".
* In ''VideoGame/{{Sam and Max|FreelancePolice}}: Ice Station Santa'', Sam and Max confront a giant Maimtron robot that randomly drops appropriate pop-song lyrics into its dialogue. Sam can distract it by asking it questions like "Why do fools fall in love?" and "Why do birds suddenly appear every time you are near?"
** The Maimtron is reactivated in ''What's New Beelzebub'' with the words, "Did you think I'd crumble? Did you think I'd lay down and die? Oh no. Not I. I will survive. I will survive."
** Later in ''Sam & Max: What's New, Beelzebub?'', they meet Satan who quotes the two lines everyone knows from [[Music/TheRollingStonesBand Sympathy for the Devil]].
** They also find a radio at one point in ''Moai Better Blues'', where if you return to a particular channel several times you get these lines: "Hello, hello, hello?" "Is there anybody out there?" "Just respond if you can hear me." [[Music/PinkFloyd "Is there anyone at home?"]]
** In ''The Devil's Playhouse'', the Maimtron army march to war against [[spoiler:Maxthulthu]] while chanting, "[[Music/{{Beyonce}} If you liked it then you should have put a ring on it, if you liked it then you should have put a ring on it...]]"

* ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'': Jolee Bindo spent twenty years on Kashyyyk. Why?
-->'''Jolee:''' I did it all for the Wookiees.\\
'''PC:''' [[Music/LimpBizkit The Wookiees]]?\\
'''Jolee:''' The Wookiees!
* In the handheld versions of ''[[VideoGame/TheSims The Urbz: Sims in the City]]'', after you best the Red Man at a fiddling contest:
-->'''Player Character:''' I told you once, you son of a gun, I'm the best there's ever been!
* In ''VideoGame/MaximoVsArmyOfZin'', a rescued townsperson next to a burning barn proclaims "The roof... the roof... the roof is on fire!" on the spectacle, referencing the Rock Master Scott & the Dynamic Three song "The Roof Is on Fire".
* In ''{{VideoGame/Metal Gear Solid 3|SnakeEater}}'', if the player starts the game by saying "I like [=MGS2=]!" in the opening screen, Snake will [[SillinessSwitch be wearing a mask in the opening cutscene and greet the Major by saying]] [[Music/DavidBowie "Can you hear me, Major Tom?"]]

* In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'', there is a guy running around in Hyrule Castle Town. If you talk to him, he says: "I'm late! For a very important date!".
* Some of the clothing/instrument descriptions in ''VideoGame/RockBand'', unsurprisingly.

* In ''Videogame/EscapeFromMonkeyIsland'', once Guybrush inspects an item in a kitchen, the patrons of the restaurant complete it: [[Music/BeastieBoys "Oh, Brass Monkey!" ("THE FUNKY MONKEY!")]].

* ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsUX'':
** In Scenario 12, Soushi uses quotes from the opening and ending song lyrics of ''Anime/FafnerInTheAzureDeadAggressor'' [[note]]"Hajimareba, izure owaru" for the opening song, "Kizu wo outte demo habataki taito, sou negau no nara" for the ending song[[/note]]. Later in Scenario 25, [[Anime/FafnerInTheAzureDeadAggressor Tsubaki]] will use another quote from another ''Fafner'' ending song "Separation" [[note]]"Atashi, ika nakucha"[[/note]]. Lyrics from ''[[Anime/FafnerInTheAzureDeadAggressor Fafner In The Azure: Heaven and Earth]]'' are quoted by Shou in Scenario 29 [[note]]"If dead people return to the soil, then all of us, then we are all living above dead in a way"[[/note]], while [[Toys/BBSenshiSangokuden Ryuubi Gundam or Chousen Qubeley]] quotes the main song lyrics in Scenario 47 [[note]]"Tamashii wa, katachi wo koe nakara..."[[/note]].
** In Scenario 34, [[VisualNovel/{{Demonbane}} Doctor West]] will quote the lyrics of the 1979 anime ''Manga/{{Cyborg 009}}'' [[note]]"Hahaha! The blowing wind suits this Genius Scientist Doctoooor West!"[[/note]].
** During Scenario 43 of the Union Route, Fei-Yen HD, Sheryl Nome and Ranka Lee will sing the lyrics of the opening song "Tori no Uta" from ''Anime/DancougarNova'' together [[note]]Fei-Yen - "Hokori to ai ga kyoumeishite... Kanadeteru, melody!"; Sheryl - "Tsubasa wa, kaze ni notte...!"; Ranka - "Oo sora ni inoru, Tori no Uta...!"[[/note]].
** At one point in ''UX'', [[Anime/MazinkaiserSKL Aira]] uses the lyrics from "Proud", an in-anime song from ''Manga/LinebarrelsOfIron'' [[note]]"Hitomi no naka ni utsushi dasareta kibou no kakera. Toki wo koe... Kizuna wo egaku, mirai."[[/note]].
** Shou uses the lyrics to "Fly Dunbine", the opening song to ''Anime/AuraBattlerDunbine'', in Scenario 46 [[note]]"Osoreruna, kanashimuna. Shinjiru kokoro ga... Seigi ni narundaaa!"[[/note]].
** [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEEDDestiny Shinn Asuka]] will quote lyrics from the ending song "Life Goes On" from ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEEDDestiny''. [[note]]"Kono inochi ga, aru kagiri."[[/note]]
* In ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsOriginalGeneration'', Irm will sometimes quote the ''Series/UltramanTaro'' opening theme when he attacks.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' for the UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis:
-->'''Yakko:''' We need to cooperate here. Wakko, you take the high road. Dot, you take the low road. As for me, I'll be in Scotland before ye. Whatever that means.
* In ''VideoGame/TheSimsMedieval'' if you get the "Ghost Ship" chance event one of the choices is described with "[[Franchise/{{Ghostbusters}} I ain't afraid of no ghost!]]"
* In ''VideoGame/DiscoElysium'' this can happen at several points:
** You can quote Music/{{DMX}}'s "Where The Hood At" at your Shivers skill, and it replies in kind:
--->'''You:''' Where the hood, where the hood, where the hood at?\\
'''Shivers:''' HAVE A [[NWordPrivileges BROTHER]] IN THE CUT. WHERE THE WOOD AT?
** The Electrochemistry skill will reference Music/FatboySlim's "The Rockafeller Skank", as you [[spoiler:extract the bullet which has punched a hole in the Hanged Man's basal ganglia]]:
--->'''Electrochemistry:''' The ''funk soul brother'' at the back of his head has gone dark. Forever.
** When you are trying to listen to [[spoiler:the beat of the pale]], and the Old Church is collapsing around you as a result, you can loudly shout out a line of Music/WhitneyHouston's "I Wanna Dance With Somebody" at the unfolding pandemonium, and Egg Head, the MC who is present at the event will quote you right back:
--->'''You:''' OH, I WANT TO DANCE WITH SOMEBODY!\\
'''Egg Head:''' I WANT TO FEEL THE HEAT WITH SOMEBODY!
** A failed Logic check, sees the skill quote "Witch Doctor":
--->'''Logic:''' Sorry. You're not coming up with anything. Again, the pieces are there: she could have done it, somehow, something else, wala-wala-bing-bang -- it's just not coming together.\\
'''You:''' Walla-walla-bing-bang?\\
'''Logic:''' I don't know what it means, but it felt like the most appropriate thing to say. That's what the *Witch Doctor* would say, at least.
* A punny case happens on ''Videogame/{{Civilization}} 6'', where the achievement for winning a game with Roman emperor Trajan is "[[Music/TheB52s Rome If You Want To]]". There's also "[[Music/{{Bastille}} "And the Walls Kept Tumbling Down]]" (fitting of the song "Pompeii", have a Roman city hit by a Vesuvius eruption), "[[Music/TheWho Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss]]" (Eleanor capturing a city of a civilization also ruled by Eleanor), and "[[Music/TheyMightBeGiants Nobody's Business]] [[IstanbulNotConstantinople But the Turks]]" (capturing a capital city as the Ottomans and renaming it).
* ''Videogame/AssassinsCreedValhalla'' has a mission where Eivor meets a bard being repressed by a cleric. In the proceeding fistfight, the bard starts screaming things like "Punch my priest!" until one he figures out makes a good song lyric, "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gB5aXPgZ61s Smack My Bishop]]" (and to make the source of this clear, right afterwards comes the name of the quest, "Music/TheProdigy").

* [[VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic Jolee Bindo]] spent twenty years on Kashyyyk. Why?

* In ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter'' 3U, talking to one of the Moga Village fishing boat captains when you have both Shakalaka party members with you results in him reciting a short (and hilarious) homage to a famous Mary Poppins song.

* ''VideoGame/KingdomOfLoathing'' does this [[ReferenceOverdosed all the time.]] For example, pretty much every cake-based food item in the game references lyrics from a song by ''Music/{{CAKE}}''.

** When you are trying to listen to [[spoiler:the beat of the pale]], and the Old Curch is collapsing around you as a result, you can loudly shout out a line of Music/WhitneyHouston's "I Wanna Dance With Somebody" at the unfolding pandemonium, and Egg Head, the MC who is present at the event will quote you right back:

** Later in ''Sam & Max: What's New, Beelzebub?'', they meet Satan who quotes the two lines everyone knows from [[Music/TheRollingStones Sympathy for the Devil]].

* ''VideoGame/HotelMario'' has Mario telling one of the Koopalings: [[Music/TheRollingStones "Hey you! Get off of my cloud!"]]