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The dark reprise is a subtrope of [[Ironic Echo]], and the [[Evil Twin]] of [[Triumphant Reprise]]. Of course, the [[Dark Reprise]] and Triumphant Reprise can ''easily'' overlap if they happen to be the reprise of the [[Villain Song]]. In this case, [[The Bad Guy Wins|the reprise comes as the villain stands triumphant]] ([[You Can't Thwart Stage One|at least for now,]]) which is good news for him but bad news for everyone else. <ref>Alternatively, the [[Dark Reprise]] can turn out to be bad news for the ''villain'', when it's a reprise of the [[Villain Song]]. Whether or not the villain's demise makes things better for everyone else tends to vary.</ref>
Compare [[Dual
Can overlap with [[Lyrical Dissonance]], although a dark reprise tends to smooth this over with a more somber arrangement. Note that this can also apply to moments that don't use music. See also [[Soundtrack Dissonance]], [[Funny Aneurysm Moment]].
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* In the final scene of ''[[West Side Story]]'', Tony, believing Maria to have been murdered, goes out and gets himself shot, and only then sees Maria. They start to sing a [[Dark Reprise]] of "Somewhere", but he dies in the middle.
** The same is picked up instrumentally by the orchestra as Tony's body is carried off, which this writer argues are some of the most heart-wrenching final chords to come out of Broadway.
*** In addition, Tony & Maria's [["I Want" Song]] "Tonight" is twisted later when the Jets and Sharks sing a variant of this about how Bernardo and Riff's knife fight will end their rivalry.
* ''Kismet'' ends with a [[Dark Reprise]] of "Sands Of Time," as the characters vanish one by one from the stage.
* "If I Loved You" in ''[[Carousel]]'' is first sung early in Act I, as Julie and Billy flirt with each other by offering romantic hypotheticals, denying their attraction even as they submit to it. Near the end of Act II, {{spoiler|a now-dead}} Billy uses largely the same words to lament that he [[Never Got to Say Goodbye|could never truly admit his feelings to Julie or to himself while he had the chance]]. (This reprise was added during the show's New Haven tryout; [[Rodgers and Hammerstein]] were pleased to see that it boosted sheet music sales of the song.)
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** In the Broadway version, Mimi repeats some of the lyrics from 'Light My Candle' in the finale.
** Where "Seasons of Love" uses the optimistic lines "How do you measure, measure a year?" and "How do you measure a year in the life?" the reprise "Seasons of Love B," from later on in Act II, has the darker "How do you figure a last year on earth?"
* In the Musical ''[[Grease]]'', the song "Look at Me I'm Sandra Dee" is an early song mocking the main character, [[Naive Newcomer|Sandy]], for [[Virginity Makes You Stupid|being a goody-goody]]. It has a reprise sung by Sandy towards the end, where she decides to stop being a nice girl and becomes [[Family
* Early in ''She Loves Me'', the protagonist's boss, Mr. Marazak, sings "Days Gone By," in which he reminisces about his freewheeling days as a young man and meeting his wife. Later, {{spoiler|after he finds out his wife has been cheating on him,}} he sings the song again, with identical lyrics, which take on a much more poignant meaning.
* One of the three couples in ''Baby'' is barren, and trying desperately to conceive. The wife, Pam, tries to cheer up her husband, Nick, describing their rigorous (and restrictive) sex schedule in pleasant terms in "Romance." The song gets reprised twice, getting increasingly ironic and agitated, until they get fed up and decide to stop trying.
* "Master of the House" from ''[[Les Misérables (Theatre)|Les Misérables]]'' (see the Ironic Echo entry below) also gets a dark reprise as "Beggars at the Feast", which shows off Thenardier's immense profit from being a despicable human being.
** And Gavroche's reprise of "Little People" {{spoiler|when he gets shot at the barricades}} ?
*** In some versions, the song is instead "Ten Little Bullets", a dark reprise of his [["I Am" Song]] segment in "Look Down"
** There's also Javert's reprise of Valjean's "soliloquy" song. Both represent men at drastic turning points in their lives, however {{spoiler|Valjean ends the song by turning over a new leaf, while Javert ends by killing himself.}}
** "One Day More" is basically a reprise, with sinister undertones, of just about every song heard hitherto. Especially "Who Am I?"
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* The ''[[Legally Blonde]]'' musical inverts this: the titular song is somber while the reprise is upbeat and energetic.
* Pretty much every key song in "Children of Eden" has at least one poignant reprise or more, because of the theme of history repeating itself and second chances.
** "Spark of Creation" Eve's big [["I Want" Song]], is later reprised as a fear that she has passed the fiery spirit that led to the fall of humanity to her son Cain. At the climax, when Noah is no longer sure what God wants him to do, his wife sings a reprise telling him to use his God-given brain to decide for himself.
** "That's What It Means to be a Father", Father's song about his love for his children, is darkly reprised by Cain as he accuses Adam of crushing his spirit, then by Father again after he wipes out humanity with the flood.
** Also, the "Without form, void, darkness" from before God creates the universe is sung again after the earth is destroyed with the flood.
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* ''Barnum'' has a few:
** "Love Makes Such Fools of Us All" is reprised by Jenny Lind as Barnum decides to return to his wife Chairy rather than try to pursue her.
** "The Colors of My Life", the [["I Want" Song]] for both Barnum and Chairy which is initially sung in two parts (hers commenting on his) is reprised as a duet for the couple before Chairy dies.
** The show closes with a wistful closing reprise of "There's a Sucker Born Ev'ry Minute" as Barnum mourns how the great eccentricities and "humbugs" of the past - which he built his career on - are now forgotten.
* ''Hair'' has "Manchester, England," Claude's cheeky [["I Am" Song]], a verse of which appears in "The Flesh Failures" by his ghost after he's been ''killed in Vietnam''. Even worse in the film, where the person wailing "Claude, that's me, that's me"... isn't actually him.
* Kurt Weill was fond of this trope. A very nice example can be heard in the final three songs of ''The Seven Deadly Sins'', which summarize the previous parts both in melody and in lyrics.
** More famously, the final song of the Threepenny Opera, which echoes the opening song ''Mack The Knife''. "For some are in the darkness, and others are in the light. And we see the ones in the light. The ones in the darkness, we don't see." Although the song is left out in a staggering number of productions, it's one of the most quoted poems in German literature.
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* ''[[Drood (Theatre)|Drood]]'': While "Moonfall" is already an [[Stalker With a Crush|extremely creepy song]], the duet reprise takes it to [[Phantom of the Opera|Phantom-esque]] proportions, resulting in a darkly operatic number to rival any other.
* ''[[Assassins (Theatre)|Assassins]]'' manages to take an already dark song (the opening song, "Everybody's Got the Right") and make it even darker for the finale. In the opening number, the subject is grim, but the words and music are perky and introduces all the characters. The finale, after seeing all of the assassins in their respective attempts, also ends with {{spoiler|the assassins [[The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You|aiming their guns and firing ''at the audience''.]]}}
* In the much rewritten musical [[Martin Guerre]], 'Live With Someone You Love' starts out as a beautiful love song, and doubles as Arnaud's [["I Am" Song]], and is reprised by Bertrande and Martin when Arnaud dies. Also, "I'm Martin Guerre" gets one when Arnaud sings it in the courtroom when he pretends to be Martin. Not exactly dark, but still a bit on the creepy side.
** In the rewritten version Martin gets a dark reprise of 'Without You As A Friend' during 'Why,' including the line ' so it seems we have come to the end/i'll live my life/without you as a friend.'
* Inverted in ''[[Scrooge]],'' the 1970 musical adaptation of ''[[A Christmas Carol]]'': the first version of "Thank You Very Much" is a grave-dancing tune in all but one aspect (someone's dancing on Scrooge's coffin ''before they bury it'') but the reprise is one of genuine gratitude towards the man.
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== Animated Film Musicals ==
* ''[[The Princess and The Frog]]'' has two.
** First, Tiana sings her [["I Want" Song]] "Almost There" a second time after she's outbid on the restaurant she wanted (or so the realtors claim).
*** Plus a related [[Ironic Echo]], when Facilier whispers this as he offers to help her in exchange for his talisman.
** For the second, the page image is from the [[Dark Reprise]] of the [[Villain Song]], "Friends On The Other Side," when {{spoiler|said "friends" drag Facilier to his hellish death, evilly chanting [[Ironic Echo|"are you ready?"]]}}.
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* Scar from ''[[The Lion King]]'' was originally going to have one.
* The song "First Toymaker to the King" from the [[Christmas Special]] ''Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town'' is reprised as "No More Toymakers to the King" by Burgermeister Meisterburger.
* In ''[[The Prince of Egypt]]'', the song "The Plagues" is partially a dark reprise of Moses' earlier [["I Want" Song]] inversion, "All I Ever Wanted", turning from a celebration of his life as an Egyptian to a lament over having to destroy it to win freedom for the Jews. It also doubles as a [[Villain Song]] for the Pharaoh, showing his anger at his foster brother's betrayal.
** Makes it even more dark and sadder if you remember that in-between "All I Ever Wanted" and "The Plagues", Moses' adoptive mother, the wife of the pharaoh, sings a reprise of this song, in a tender, motherly and comforting way, while trying to convince him to forget his true origin and embrace his Egyptian life and his adoptive family.
* Disney's ''[[The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney)|The Hunchback of Notre Dame]]'' features a lovesick Quasimodo singing about how he has finally found love after years of assuming he was unlovable (''Heaven's Light''). Not much later, these same lyrics are echoed with a new, bitter twist as he discovers this his newfound 'love' is more interested in her [[Knight in Shining Armor]].
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* ''[[Cats Don't Dance (Animation)|Cats Don't Dance]]'' uses this trope with "Big and Loud". The first time through, Darla is giving advice to Danny about how to impress an audience. Once Danny is hustled out the door, the lyrics change as she declares her true intent -- to destroy Danny's career and that of anyone else who gets in her way. The first time she tells Danny, "[Your act]'s gotta be big and loud!" but it shifts to, "They're gonna fall big and loud!" The song is used a third time as she puts her plan into action, with the same lyrics as the second time, as she revels in her victory.
* The song "Let Me be Your Wings" from ''[[Thumbelina]]'' has a dark reprise halfway through the movie, called "Once There was the Sun". She sings this in lamenting {{spoiler|Cornelius' apparent death.}}
** When Thumbelina goes missing, her mother sings a sad reprise of Thumbelina's [["I Want" Song]] "Soon".
* "I Stand Alone" in ''[[Quest for Camelot]]'' is Garrett's [["I Am" Song]] in which he embraces his solitude and declares that [[I Work Alone|he works alone.]] He gives it a brief but passionate [[Dark Reprise]] towards the end of the film, bitterly repeating the chorus as he unhappily resigns himself to remaining alone.
* "Who's Been Painting My Roses Red?" from ''[[Alice in Wonderland (Disney)|Alice in Wonderland]]'', an accusatory reprise of the cheerful "Painting the Roses Red".
* ''[[Tangled (Disney)|Tangled]]'' has two examples: a cutting reprise of "Mother Knows Best" (which was ''already'' a villain song) as Gothel severely undercuts Rapunzel's hopes for her growing romance, and then the second reprise of "The Healing Incantation" as {{spoiler|Rapunzel desperately tries to revive the mortally wounded Flynn after her hair has been robbed of its healing magic.}}
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** The song is once again revamped later on as a ''Crowning Music of Awesome''.
* In the ''[[South Park]]'' movie, "[[La Résistance]]" begins as a rousing anthem in the vein of "One Day More" from ''[[Les Misérables (Theatre)|Les Misérables]]''. "La Resistance (Reprise)" is a duet between the Mole and Kyle as the Mole dies.
** "La Resistance" also provides a very short version of this for Satan's [["I Want" Song|oddly poignant]] [[Villain Song]], "Up There." The original has him sing "Up There there is so much room/Where babies burp and flowers bloom," while he adds in the reprise, "Tomorrow night ''Up There is doomed...''"
*** Also in the song, the brief reprise of 'Uncle Fucker' where the lines have been changed to "Looks like we may be out of luck/Tomorrow night, we're pretty fucked!!"
** Also in the episode where Butters sings about his new robot (really Cartman in disguise), "Hey there, let me tell you 'bout my robot friend" reprised when the robot gets taken away by the government: "Hey there, did you know I had a robot friend..."
* ''[[WALL-E]]'' has an interestingly reversed version of this, with the 'dark' version coming before the 'light' one. In the first act, the titular robot watches a video of "It Only Takes A Moment" from ''[[Hello Dolly]]'', with the sappy romantic lyrics serving only to accentuate the hopeless loneliness of his existence. The song is used throughout the film as a [[Leitmotif]], until at the very end of the film it gets a full reprise, only this time played straight.
* ''[[Final Fantasy VII Advent Children]]'' is this to the original ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]''. Apart from the [[Darker and Edgier]] approach, even the soundtrack features Dark Reprises of well-known tunes from the game itself - the random battle theme (which reached [[Ear Worm]] status for obvious reasons) is now a chilling piano instrumental, and even the iconic [[One
* ''[[Coraline (Film)|Coraline]]'' - When Coraline visits the Other Mother's parallel world, she meets the other world's version of Mister Bobinsky (her strange yet friendly house neighbor), who performs his the "Mice Circus" [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtDH_YlwuWY&feature=related song]. Later, when Coraline heads back to retrieve the souls of the Other Mother's victims, she finds the circus in disrepair and the Other Mr. Bobinsky reduced to a pile of talking rats. The song accompanying this scene presents the feeling of a circus [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIkW6LkX6jw&feature=related falling apart].
* ''[[Toy Story]] 3'' begins with a montage of clips of Andy playing with his toys while 'You've Got a Friend in Me' plays, until {{spoiler|suddenly the music stops and the line 'our friendship will never die' is the last line you hear.}}
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* In the soundtrack to the Kenneth Branagh movie of Shakespeare's ''[[Much Ado About Nothing]]'', the melody of the wedding march at Hero's first, doomed wedding reappears (in minor key) as her dirge when she is believed dead. By contrast, no music is played at the second wedding (during which the audience knows that the bride is Hero, alive and well, but her groom believes her dead and thinks he is marrying her cousin) until the moment she lifts her veil. This is very effective in setting the mood for all three scenes.
* A few times in [[Will Ferrell]] movies:
** In ''[[Anchorman:
** In ''[[Blades of Glory]]'', the song for the pairs first performance is "Don't Want To Miss A Thing." After his partner refuses to speak to him, he leaves many messages on his phone, one of which is a sad, drunken version of that song.
** And ''Semi-Pro'': Jackie Moon earned all his money that he bought the Tropics with using royalties from his song "Love Me Sexy." He later goes through a [[Heroic BSOD]] of sorts, and sings a variation of that song while lying in a dumpster. Yes, it's sad and drunken.
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* Parodied (or played straight, or...who the hell knows?) in ''The Brothers Solomon'', in which the power ballad "St. Elmo's Fire" (from the film of the same name) is used first as a general triumphant anthem for the titular brothers. During their (extremely brief) falling out, a more sombre, acoustic version of the song is played.
* ''[[Transformers (Film)|Transformers]]: Revenge Of The Fallen'' has a [[Dark Reprise]] of the iconic 'landing of the Autobots' scene from the first movie, with ''landing Decepticons'' causing widespread damage.
** Many of the musical themes from the first film are gone, and Optimus's theme becomes the backbone of the score. However, it's never in the same tone of the previous film, which was performed on a woodwind and with minimal percussion to make Optimus's theme sound more organic. The two main treatments are a minor-key variation with dark brass, and a more "spiritual" take (generally used for scenes involving the mythology and taking place after {{spoiler|Optimus's death}}) utilizing a [[One
** In ''Dark of the Moon'', the scene in which the Autobots are exiled and forced to leave Earth is accompanied by a heartbreakingly sad reprise of the "Arrival on Earth" theme from the first movie.
** A non-musical example would be Waspinator's [[Catch Phrase]], "Waspinator has plans..." In the show ''[[Beast Wars (Animation)|Beast Wars]]'', it's said in a comical tone of voice, but in ''[[Transformers Animated]]'', it more creepy-sounding.
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* In the first minute or so of episode 44 of ''[[Kamen Rider OOO]]'', Doctor Maki gets a less booming version of Kougami's music.
* The episode preceding ''[[Lost (TV)|Lost]]'''s fourth season finale introduces the show's [http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Home_theme home theme] as a happy, sentimental motif. The episode's final moment's transform it into a [http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Of_Mice_and_Ben song of doom].
* A sinister cello version of Jenna's Turkish pop song "Muffin Top" plays during ''[[
* In ''[[Robin Hood (TV)|Robin Hood]]'', when Isabella first shows up, she's accompanied by a very dark, off-key remix of Marian's theme, indicating that her betrayal was planned from the start.
* In ''[[Game of Thrones]]'', the first appearance of King Robert is heralded by a grand song called "The King's Arrival". In the second season premiere, a more dark version of the theme plays when {{spoiler|guardsmen hunt down and systematically kill Robert's bastard children throughout the capital}}.
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** Also, the first game has "Not Tomorrow", played when Lisa dies, which is a dark reprise of its title theme.
* Yoko Shimomura loves this trope:
** ''[[Kingdom Hearts: 358 Days Over 2 (Video Game)|Kingdom Hearts 358 Days Over 2]]'' has one with {{spoiler|Xion, and then at the end of the game... [[Fighting Your Friend|her battle theme]]}}.
*** ' 'The Other Promise'' is {{spoiler|a mournful reprise of Roxas's theme, played during your battle with him}}.
*** Vanitas's battle theme {{spoiler|is remixed with Ventus, Roxas, and Sora's leitmotifs during their final battle}}.
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** Similarly, when Miranda is killed, a sad reprise of the beginning of "High Charity Suite" is played, which itself was a darker arrangement of "In Amber Clad".
** The credits music starts with a [[Triumphant Reprise]] of the ''Halo'' theme, but ends with a [[Lonely Piano Piece]].
* "Spartans Never Die" from ''[[Halo Reach]]'' is a [[Lonely Piano Piece]] reprise of "Return", the first movement of "The Package"; and by extension, the first half of "Ghosts and Glass" . Likewise, "Ashes" is a remix of "Wing and a Prayer" with a [[One
* In ''[[World of Warcraft]]'', the creatures known as the [[Energy Beings|Naaru]] play a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BpPahqltkc soothing melodic chime] as you approach them. However, when one of them becomes corrupted and is reintroduced as a boss, a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYombOgsI3o twisted, chaotic version] of the same chime can be heard during the fight.
* The music for first part of the final boss in ''[[The Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess]]'' is a very dark reprise of [[Leitmotif|Zelda's Lullaby]] since the fight {{spoiler|is against Zelda's body being possessed by Ganon.}}
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** Also, the ending music of the first ''Galaxy'' game, which is a dark reprise of the "Comet Observatory" theme, which is played when Rosalina says goodbye to Mario/Luigi after helping her save the universe (and Peach, which Mario/Luigi is concerned) from [[Big Bad|Bowser]] and flying away to another part of the galaxy.
* The opening theme of ''[[Castlevania 64 (Video Game)|Castlevania 64]]'' is a [[Playing the Heart Strings]] version of "Opposing Bloodlines" from ''Castlevania Dracula X: Rondo of Blood''.
* You know [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwUig18llPo that little jingle] that plays whenever you win a battle in most of the ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' games? Well, it, naturally, features in the ''[[Dissidia Final Fantasy]]'' games whenever the character you're playing as wins a fight. However, if you're playing as one of the [[Villain Team
** There's a similar-sounding "Tango of Tears" remix of the victory fanfare in ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]'', for when you lose a chocobo race.
* "Mine Cart Madness" from ''[[Donkey Kong Country]]'' is an ominous, dark remix of the main DKC motif first heard in "Jungle Groove", the first level's very lively theme.
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* ''[[Medal of Honor]]: Frontline'' uses a minor-key version of its title theme at certain points, such as at the end of the OST track "After the Drop".
* The song [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsuWrntBz6E "I AM NOT A MORON"] from Portal 2 becomes a dark reprise of ''itself'' as the scene it plays during switches from being about {{spoiler|[[Robot Buddy]] Wheatley taking control of the Enrichment Center from [[Big Bad]] [[G La DOS]] and allowing you to escape to him going [[Drunk With Power]] and becoming the ''new'' [[Big Bad]]}}. A more standard case of this trope occurs with the song, too, as an even Darker Reprise of it plays {{spoiler|1=as [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IWW6iOnJ90&feature=results_video&playnext=1&list=PL85D2B5FFDDA4D3D6 the final boss music]}}.
* If Harry dies in ''[[Pitfall]] II'', a minor version of the [[Theme Music Power
* In ''[[Assassin's Creed II (Video Game)|Assassin's Creed II]]'', ''Family'' is a slower, more wistful version of the theme from ''Earth''.
* Homeworld starts -after a much needed tutorial- with the epic scene of launching the Mothership. Meanwhile, the vocal version of Adagio for Strings, Agnus Dei, plays during the launch sequence. Cue two missions later after a small trip to the edge of the solar system: your fleet returns home only to find your homeworld ''burning''. The same bloody song, which filled you with triumph, ''will'' reduce you to tears.
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** There is also "Take Our Town Back" to the tune of "Making Christmas" about the townspeople banding together to defeat Oogie, and "Sally's Song" a darker, up-tempo version of the same song from the original film which is now a duet between Sally and Jack about Oogie's deception.
* The final boss theme in ''[[Dragon Quest IX (Video Game)|Dragon Quest IX]]'' contains a minor key variation of the series main theme.
* In ''[[Street Fighter IV (Video Game)|Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition]]'', [[Super
* The [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2a5YXEF8EQ title theme] of ''[[Mass Effect 3]]'' is a much slower and more somber version of the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Md5TFAnyk38 Victory] theme that plays at the climax of the original ''[[Mass Effect 1|Mass Effect]].''
** {{spoiler|Mordin sings snatches from [[Major
* ''[[Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles (Video Game)|Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles]]'' final boss music has remixed segments of the opening theme mixed in with it.
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== Web Original ==
* ''[[Doctor
** Also, the theme song. Also a mild subversion in {{spoiler|Brand new day / the music at the party after Hammer's defeat. The subversion is that BOTH usages are dark, but in different ways.}}
** ''My Eyes'', the opening number of Act II, probably counts as a sarcastic (ironic?) echo, with Billy and Penny singing completely different songs in the same space. Billy/Dr. Horrible's is a angsty, dark song about his descent into supervillainy because Penny is boinking Captain Hammer, while Penny's is an [[Granola Girl|inspirational]] song about Hammer superficially supporting the homeless shelter to get into Penny's pants but still being a jerk to the bums. "So They Say" continues along these lines.
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** Also from ''The Simpsons'': in the episode "Elementary School Musical", the Art Camp counsellors (who are actually [[Flight of the Conchords]]) sing Lisa and the other kids a song about how exciting being an artist is. When Lisa travels to Sprooklyn to become an artist, however, they decide to "sing her the truth"; a dark reprise about how [[Starving Artist|being an artist means taking demeaning jobs and living off sandwiches that dropped on the floor]].
* One episode of ''[[My Little Pony]] Tales'' has Starlight sing about her crush on [[The Ace|Ace]] while [[Imagine Spot|picturing the two of them]] as a "Perfect Pair". She then joins the soccer team, only to discover Ace is a [[Jerk Jock]] who goes out of his way to humiliate her [[For the Evulz|just because he can]]. Cue a weepy reprise where she admits "We're... not a perfect pair."
** ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' had an absolute bombshell of one of these. The Season 2 Finale, A Canterlot Wedding, introduces Twilight Sparkle's brother Shining Armor as the groom. However, his bride {{spoiler|who is actually a fake}} and {{spoiler|the real Princess Cadence}} engage in a [[Distant Duet]] entitled "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4Wl72X4wlc This Day Aria.]" A few scenes later, the villain, {{spoiler|who reveals herself as the fake Cadence}}, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJw0ktrsv6w reprises the song], and the scenes of carnage and war play while she sings.
* The [[Animated Adaptation|TV Special]] of [[Dr. Seuss|Dr. Seuss']] ''[[The Lorax (Literature)|The Lorax]]'' has a whole bunch of these as {{spoiler|everyone leaves the land}}.
* ''[[Underdog (Animation)|Underdog]]'', in "Riffraffville", when he's running out of energy: ([[Spaghetti Western]] style) "Once he was lightning, once he was thunder, now this could end him, if he should blunder. ''Without his super energy pill, he get weaker and weaker and weaker still'' ".
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* "All for the Best" in ''[[Godspell]]'' has Jesus sing the first verse to say that the suffering one goes through in life is "all for the best" in heaven. Judas then says that anything of any value is "all for the best" people.
* "Alma Mater" in ''[[Grease]]''.
* "I Can See It" from ''The Fantasticks'' is both a Sarcastic Echo ''and'' a Dark Reprise: Matt sings a straightforward [["I Want" Song]] about seeing the world while El Gallo sings asides about what a dreadful place the world can be. Later, as El Gallo seduces Matt's sweetheart Luisa, the two men switch parts.
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* During the climactic "Walk Through The Fire" in the ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)|Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' musical episode "Once More, With Feeling", quotes from the earlier, more positive "If we're together" appear as sarcastic echoes.
* The theme song of the show ''[[Green Acres]]'' is similar to, but lighter than the ''Candide example'', where husband and wife protagonists give radically different versions of the perfect life to the same melody.
* ''[[Kamen Rider Kiva]]'' - The promotional band for the series, TETRA-FANG, did a cover for [[The Rival|Nago Keisuke]] a.k.a [[Good Is Not Nice|Kamen]] [[Anti
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