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** "Tomorrow Belongs To Me" could also be considered an example of this trope. Depending on what the director chooses to do, the cabaret dancers sometimes sing it early on while everything's still going well, as a happy, hopeful anthem.

** "Married" also qualifies. Not that the words are changed, but in the reprise the song is interrupted by {{spoiler|a brick being thrown through the window of Herr Schultz's shop, because he is Jewish. This causes Fraulein Schneider to realize she can't marry him}}.

** "Reviewing The Situation" is first sung by Fagin as he tries and fails to convince himself to abandon his criminal ways, later reprised with the Artful Dodger as they pledge their dedication to a life of crime.

** "It's a Fine Life" may be an even better example of this trope. It's first sung by Nancy and Bet as a relatively cheerful song, but is later reprised by Nancy, Bill Sikes, Fagin, and Dodger in a more sarcastic and dark manner.

Was ever meant for Heaven's Light... }}

** And ''seconds'' after the first instance, Frollo sings his own version, the awesome [[Villain Song]] ''Hellfire'', about his fury at and lust for Esmerelda. [http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=rj1v5tXs9Jo=related Here's] the whole sequence.

{{quote| '''Frollo''': It's not my fault! ('''Choire''': Mea culpa ''through my fault'')<br />

'''Frollo''': I'm not to blame! ('''Choire''': Mea culpa ''through my fault'')<br />

** Star Wars is basically made of this trope. Most of the consequential music pieces are basically darker versions of earlier pieces of the trilogies.

* The opening theme to the first Harry Potter movies, is dramatically skewed for the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mObK5XD8udk Deathly Hallows part 2 trailer].

 

 

* [[Macross Frontier]] has the song ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHpt2qikj1I Aimo]'', a love song/lullaby taught to Ranka Lee by her mother. Later in the series, Ranka sings a version created by her manager, ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URzO2BT8l-A Aimo O.C.]'', which changes the song into a battle hymmn.

** To say nothing of the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKiu30uKR7s&feature=related ~bless the little queen~ version] of ''Do You Remember Love''... It's not just a dark reprise of an earlier scene in the series--it's a dark reprise of ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wckZcVFLU24&feature=related the most iconic song of the franchise]''.

** Another weird variation comes up late in the series. Homura's theme, "Puella in somnio" (Girl in the Dream) tends to follow her arrival onto a scene without fail, and is a mysterious and airy. A reprise comes in the form of "Inevitabilis" (Inevitable), a heavy and melancholic piano reprise that plays {{spoiler|during Episode 11 when she breaks down in front of Madoka and explains everything before resolving to fight Walpurgis Night by herself}}. While the reprise came up much earlier in the series, it's particularly more poignant in the context of this scene and sets a much bleaker tone from thereon in (which, for ''Madoka Magica'', is saying something).

** Signum Malum is a darker and more melancholic revision of ''Sis Puella Magi.''

* In the ''[[Fringe (TV)|Fringe]]'' episode Brown Betty, the story version of Walter is introduced amongst the cheerful sound of corpses singing The Candyman. Later, he sings it to himself as his son abandons him and he is left to die alone.

* One episode of ''[[The Wonder Years]]'' opens with Kevin extolling the virtues of his sweetheart Winnie as the Beach Boys' classic "God Only Knows" plays. The song is used again at the end of the episode when {{spoiler|Winnie dumps Kevin.}}

** The [[Crowning Music of Awesome|awesomely]] dark [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I-qld9HMgw music] that plays as we see the ruined Gallifrey in "The End of Time Part 2" is a twisted version of season three's "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idQRiLZukG0 This is Gallifrey]".

** The music in the final scene of "The Pandorica Opens" is a dark reprise of Amy's theme.

* In [[Joanna Newsom]]'s album Have One On Me, the final song, [http://youtu.be/-LgQhfusf_E Does Not Suffice], is a [[Dark Reprise]] of the central [http://youtu.be/ZOFbj3Fk4fw In California]. Whilst In California is about the evaluation of a relationship, which is threatened by distance, homesickness and a fear of commitment, Does Not Suffice is a definite break-up, as the voice describes packing her belongings and leaving her lover, stating that "everywhere I tried to love you is yours again and only yours". The "chorus" of In California, which focused entirely on a sense of indecision, is echoed in Does Not Suffice by a series of resigned, defeated lalala's, which fade away as they are overwhelmed by strings and a burgeoning, crashing electronic drone (a stark mechanical presence in an album full of pastoral imagery). Definitely darker.

* In "Leave The Bourbon On The Shelf" by [[The Killers]], it's the line, "And I love you endlessly, darling, don't you see, I'm not satisfied." The line isn't as noticeable at first, because it goes by quickly and the music is still playing, but when the music fades out and the song puts special emphasis on it by making it the last line in the entire song, it seems like they are trying to tell you something. {{spoiler|And they are: The next song in the trilogy, "Midnight Show", has the narrator killing his ex-girlfriend, whom the first song was also for.}}

** Also by [[Vocaloid]], in "Kagome, Kagome" (Circle You, Circle You), Miku and Luka singing the words to the game (which is a real game, by the way) starts out already being extremely creepy. But when you find out their reasons for being in the abandoned orphanage and the things that happened in the orphanage before it was deserted, you realize that they are very likely {{spoiler|murderous ghosts}}. The line gets even darker when they sing it a second time.

* Ne-Yo's album ''Libra Scale'' opens with "Champagne Life", which is an easygoing, upbeat party tune, full of vitality and celebratory swagger. The album closes with "What Have I Done", a regretful look back at past mistakes and broken love whose backing track echoes the carefree tune of "Champagne Life" with piercing guilt.

 

== Other ==

* The old entrance music of [[CHIKARA|Colin & Jimmy Olsen]] in 06-07 was Britney Spears' 'Toxic', along with the intro from [[Full House]]. After Colin left for [[WWE|greener pastures]], came back, and subsequently had a [[Face Heel Turn]], he used A Static Lullaby's cover of Toxic - the alternative metal/screamo music emphasising that he'd changed about as much as his brother had.

* If you've ever rode on the Disneyland ride, Splash Mountain (based on the movie, [[Song of the South]]) the annoyingly addictive song "Laughing Place" becomes more sinister when the ride passes by the two sinister, animatronic crows anxiously waiting for Brer Rabbit's death (and, in the Disneyland Anaheim version, before that scene, the dark reprise starts earlier with two Mother characters exclusive to that version of the ride singing mournfully about Brer Rabbit being caught facing certain death warning their children to not go to the laughing place). and when it climb up the last and highest hill in the cave before descending below. 4:54 in this soundtrack - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIEvJfKSex4&feature=related

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