Hollywood Tone Deaf / Video Games

• An entire tone-deaf band makes an appearance in Brütal Legend. Kabagge Boy, the Nu Metal Boy Band 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 Karmic Death for their terrible music (and their maltreatment of Eddie) when Ormagodden shows up. The God of Metal simply screams at them, and their heads fall off.
• Guybrush Threepwood in The Curse of Monkey Island 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 your singing is so bad, it's caused me to have a seizure.
• Muse from Demon Gaze II begins singing over the radio. The singing is so bad that it causes the radio that the characters are using to explode!
• Hitman: Blood Money: The female assassin posing as a singer in the Dance with the Devil mission sings this way.
• In Lunar: The Silver Star, 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 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).
• In one of the voiced dramas for Riviera: The Promised Land, 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.
• Saints Row:
  • In Saints Row 2, the player has has 6 different voices to choose from when customizing the Boss, and each gets two songs they sing along to on the radio, each one sharing "Take On Me" by A-ha and getting one other unique song per voice. The songs range from The Final Countdown, to Sister Christian, and your character cannot 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 Saints Row: The Third and Saints Row IV when they sing "What I Got" and "Opposites Attract", respectively. "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 first game, while dressed in drag as her to lure out a mutant Johnny Gat clone. It has to be seen to be believed.
• Wei Shen in Sleeping Dogs (2012), if you play the karaoke minigame badly. Observe.
• In Sonic Adventure 2'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 Super Mario Odyssey, Nintendo made a version of Jump Up Super Star featuring Toad, which sounds exactly like this.
• Valkyria Chronicles:
  • Edy Nelson, 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 Valkyria Chronicles II, 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 Elvis Captain Ersatz/wannabe, this guy has quite the horrifying voice when he attempts to sing. He does improve, however.
• In Yakuza: Dead Souls, 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. 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.

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