Waxing Lyrical / Video Games

• Animaniacs for the Sega Genesis:
  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.
• Assassin's Creed: Valhalla 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, "Smack My Bishop" (and to make the source of this clear, right afterwards comes the name of the quest, "The Prodigy").
• A punny case happens on Civilization 6, where the achievement for winning a game with Roman emperor Trajan is "Rome If You Want To". There's also ""And the Walls Kept Tumbling Down" (fitting of the song "Pompeii", have a Roman city hit by a Vesuvius eruption), "Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss" (Eleanor capturing a city of a civilization also ruled by Eleanor), and "Nobody's Business But the Turks" (capturing a capital city as the Ottomans and renaming it).
• In Disco Elysium this can happen at several points:
  • The Detective can quote DMX's "Where The Hood At" at your Shivers skill, and it replies in kind:
    The Detective: Where the hood, where the hood, where the hood at?
    Shivers: HAVE A BROTHER IN THE CUT. WHERE THE WOOD AT?
  • The Electrochemistry skill will reference Fatboy Slim's "The Rockafeller Skank", as the Detective 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 the Detective are trying to listen to the beat of the pale, and the Old Church is collapsing around you as a result, he can loudly shout out a line of Whitney Houston's "I Wanna Dance With Somebody" at the unfolding pandemonium, and Egg Head, the MC who is present at the event will quote him right back:
    The Detective: 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.
    The Detective: 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.
• In Escape from Monkey Island, once Guybrush inspects an item in a kitchen, the patrons of the restaurant complete it: "Oh, Brass Monkey!" ("THE FUNKY MONKEY!").
• Hotel Mario has Mario telling one of the Koopalings: "Hey you! Get off of my cloud!"
• Kingdom of Loathing does this all the time. For example, pretty much every cake-based food item in the game references lyrics from a song by Cake.
• In The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, 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!"
• LEGO Star Wars: Since the character Ello Asty is already named after a Beastie Boys song, all his dialogue in The Skywalker Saga are lyrics from their songs.
  Ello: I got skills to pay the bills!
• In Maximo vs. Army of Zin, 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 Metal Gear Solid 3, if the player starts the game by saying "I like MGS2!" in the opening screen, Snake will be wearing a mask in the opening cutscene and greet the Major by saying "Can you hear me, Major Tom?"
• In Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate, 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.
• Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity: When you first meet Swanna in Post Town, she tells you that you can call her "Swanna" if you want, but "just don't call me maybe."

• In Sam and Max: 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 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." "Is there anyone at home?"
  • In The Devil's Playhouse, the Maimtron army march to war against Maxthulthu while chanting, "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..."
• The Sims:
  • In The Sims Medieval if you get the "Ghost Ship" chance event one of the choices is described with "I ain't afraid of no ghost!"
  • In the handheld versions of 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!
• Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic: Jolee Bindo spent twenty years on Kashyyyk. Why?
  Jolee: I did it all for the Wookiees.
  PC: The Wookiees?
  Jolee: The Wookiees!
• Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People: In "Dangeresque 3: The Criminal Projective", Strong Bad's character, Dangeresque, begins rattling off pop song lyrics when his father, "Dadgeresque," is killed.
  Dangeresque: Don't do this dad, you have to hang on! Did you ever know that you're my hero? We've only just begun! You're the wind beneath my wings! Umm... She Bop?
• Super Robot Wars:
  • In Super Robot Wars: Original Generation, Irm will sometimes quote the Ultraman Taro opening theme when he attacks.
  • Super Robot Wars UX:
    • In Scenario 12, Soushi uses quotes from the opening and ending song lyrics of Fafner in the Azure: Dead Aggressor ^note "Hajimareba, izure owaru" for the opening song, "Kizu wo outte demo habataki taito, sou negau no nara" for the ending song. Later in Scenario 25, Tsubaki will use another quote from another Fafner ending song "Separation" ^note "Atashi, ika nakucha". Lyrics from 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", while Ryuubi Gundam or Chousen Qubeley quotes the main song lyrics in Scenario 47 ^note "Tamashii wa, katachi wo koe nakara...".
    • In Scenario 34, Doctor West will quote the lyrics of the 1979 anime Cyborg 009 ^note "Hahaha! The blowing wind suits this Genius Scientist Doctoooor West!".
    • 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 Dancougar Nova 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...!".
    • At one point in UX, Aira uses the lyrics from "Proud", an in-anime song from Linebarrels of Iron ^note "Hitomi no naka ni utsushi dasareta kibou no kakera. Toki wo koe... Kizuna wo egaku, mirai.".
    • Shou uses the lyrics to "Fly Dunbine", the opening song to Aura Battler Dunbine, in Scenario 46 ^note "Osoreruna, kanashimuna. Shinjiru kokoro ga... Seigi ni narundaaa!".
    • Shinn Asuka will quote lyrics from the ending song "Life Goes On" from Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny. ^note "Kono inochi ga, aru kagiri."
• Many units in Warcraft III will spout song lyrics as their Stop Poking Me! lines.
  • By extension, Starcraft as well.
    • On a particular note was Lt. Duran from Brood War, who was prone to (of course) reciting Duran Duran lyrics when poked.
  • In Warcraft II, the cheat code to instantly research all magic spells was "every little thing she does".

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