Diegetic Switch: Difference between revisions

== Anime and Manga ==

* ''[[Five5 Centimeters Per Second]]'' has the famous J-ballad "One More Time, One More Chance" playing first muffled through tinny speakers in a convenience store and then at full clarity volume through the ending montage.

* ''[[Kara no Kyoukai (Literature):|Kara no Kyoukai]]'' tends to do this.

* The Disney dub track for ''[[Laputa: Castle in Thethe Sky]]'' has this happen to Pazu's bugle call.

* ''[[9 (Animation)|Nine]]'' has ''Somewhere Over the Rainbow'' start playing on a scratchy phonograph operated by 3 and 4 after {{spoiler|the group blows up the Machine's factory, believing they have defeated it once and for all}}, and the song gradually loses its phonograph-like qualities as the scene continues until it is heard free of the dampening, static, and occasional skipping that occur when it first starts up. It also plays for a bit free of in-world sound effects over it. This continues while 5 discovers that {{spoiler|the Machine is not dead and is in fact coming towards them out of the rubble}}, leading to somewhat [[Narm|humorous]]/[[Nightmare Fuel]][[Ironic Nursery Rhyme|-eriffic]] [[Soundtrack Dissonance]] while {{spoiler|5 runs screaming up the hill towards the others with the Machine in hot pursuit}}. The song ends the instant the phonograph's needle is knocked off.

* The songs "You'll Be In My Heart" and "On My Way" from their respective films ''[[Tarzan (Disney film)|Tarzan]]'' and ''[[Brother Bear (Disney)|Brother Bear]]'' both start out being sung by one of the film's main characters, but when the chorus starts, it moves into the background and is now sung by an offscreen singer. Curiously enough, both films had their songs written by [[Phil Collins]].

* "Sun Do Shine (reprise)" from ''[[Rock -a -Doodle]]''.

* In ''[[Interview Withwith the Vampire]]'', Lestat turns on the radio at the end to start the end credits music. Naturally, it's "Sympathy for the Devil".

* ''[[Return of the Jedi]]'' ends with a celebratory song by the Ewoks, which blends into a glorious choral crescendo well out of the little aliens' vocal range. ([[Done a George LucasRecut|At least it used to]].)

* This happens in ''[[Star Trek II: theThe Wrath of Khan (Film)|Star Trek II the Wrath of Khan]]'' at the end of Spock's funeral, in which Scotty plays [[Amazing Freaking Grace|"Amazing Grace"]] on the bagpipes, and the tune is taken up by the soundtrack as the scene cuts to an exterior of the ship and Spock's casket being fired into space.

* The new ''[[Star Trek (Filmfilm)|Star Trek]]'' also does this. Young Kirk fires up some Beastie Boys on his uncle's "antique" car's stereo. The music continues even after said car has ''fallen into a quarry''.

* The Welsh lullaby in ''[[Empire of the Sun (novel)|Empire of the Sun]]'' goes from being sung by Christian Bale's character to playing with choral backup after the character has stopped singing.

** Even better, the hard rock playing during one of the chase scenes is coming from Slater's tape deck -- anddeck—and he changes the tape mid-chase!

* In the original ''[[Highlander (Film)|Highlander]]'' Movie, Kurgan sings a very bad rendition of Frank Sinatra's "New York, New York", which then segues into a Queen version of the song. (For the record, there is no full Queen version of the song. The Highlander snippet is all that's known to exist.)

* Happens twice in ''[[The Cable Guy]]''. While dueling with Matthew Broderick at Medieval Times, the Cable Guy references a ''[[Star Trek (Franchise)|Star Trek]]'' episode and begins humming the soundtrack. The film's soundtrack quickly picks it up. Later, the Cable Guy sticks Owen Wilson's mouth over a hand dryer, says he looks like Dizzy Gillespie, and starts singing "Salt Peanuts," causing the actual song to start playing on the soundtrack.

* The seventh ''[[Harry Potter (Filmfilm)|Harry Potter]]'' movie, ''[[Harry Potter and Thethe Deathly Hallows - Part 1]]'', does this rather well, actually. {{spoiler|While Harry and Hermione dance, the radio music in-scene slowly drifts into background music.}}

* ''[[XXX (Film)|xXx]]'' has [[Rammstein (Music)|Rammstein]]'s "Feuer Frei!" in the background of a chase scene -- andscene—and when the spy runs through a doorway in an alley he's suddenly in the middle of a Rammstein concert, and guess what they're playing?

* A variation of this in ''[[The Sorcerer's Apprentice (Film)|The Sorcerers Apprentice]]''. While trying to impress a girl, Dave (the titular apprentice and a [[Hollywood Nerd]]) rigs tesla coils to discharge at a cage with Dave and the girl inside. The discharges make sounds that turn out to be playing "Secrets" by OneRepublic, a song previously heard on the radio. The actual song quickly picks up in the background, not through the radio this time.

* ''[[Lost (TV)|Lost]]'' is fond of this. Three Dog Night's "Shambala" was played as [[Source Music]] (on an 8-track in the Volkswagen bus) in "Tricia Tanaka is Dead", and then it faded into an orchestral version of same as background music. They did the same with "La Mer" when Shannon sang it at the end of "Whatever the Case May Be". In "One of Us," Petula Clark's "Downtown" goes from playing on Juliet's CD player to playing non-diegetically over a montage of ensuing events. In season six's episode "Sundown" we have Claire singing "Catch a Falling Star" and then later a spooky version is played during a slo-mo sequence.

* The episode "Someone to Watch Over Me" of ''[[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined (2004 TV series)|Battlestar Galactica Reimagined]]'' used this trope quite a bit, when a pianist's music would suddenly be heard underscoring other scenes.

* ''[[House (TV series)|House]]'' has the last scene playing a song on House's iPod, then accidentally cutting to the Hava Nagila. Then, after turning off his iPod, the song returns as background music.

* In the episode "Light" of ''[[Stargate Universe (TV)|Stargate Universe]]'', we hear a somber violin piece play on Dr. Rush's iPod speaker dock before the music and scene switch into a montage of the rest of the ''Destiny'''s crew bracing itself for a fiery death in the sun that the ship is plummeting into.

* In the ''[[Stargate Atlantis (TV)|Stargate Atlantis]]'' episode "Critical Mass", Teyla sings a song at a funeral while tense action packed scenes are taking place around the city. As the scene switches between locations, the song continues as background music.

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxAeWHTC_FQ Done to brilliant effect] in the ''[[ER]]'' episode "Be Still My Heart", where the ER staff are having a Valentine's Day party in the reception area with Pigeonhead's "Battleflag" blaring loudly from the radio. Carter goes down the back hallway to the patient rooms to check why a patient hasn't been discharged, and the music becomes muffled with distance, still diegetic. And then he gets stabbed in the back by said schizophrenic patient and left to bleed on the floor. The second the knife goes in, the music seamlessly transitions from the distant, tinny-sounding BGM to a full, clear, non-diegetic soundtrack -- whichsoundtrack—which is ''exactly as loud as the radio is back in the reception area'', and Carter's cries for help are drowned out by it, letting the viewer realize that no one can hear him because ''they'' can't hear him either.

* The video for [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2c1Y34vgrI8 Sunset Strippers' - "Falling Stars"] starts with a guy listening to the song on his [[MP 3MP3]] player, before switching to non-diegetic form.

* The video for "19-2000" by [[Gorillaz (Music)|Gorillaz]] begins with this.

* ''[[Persona 3]]'' plays with it a bit. The background theme in the opening cutscene (called "Burn My Dread") is first heard from Main Character's headphones, then it switches to being a full-fledged BGM for a minute, and then heard again from headphones.

* In ''[[The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time (Video Game)|The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time]]'', Saria's Song is first heard diegetically, directing your path through the Lost Woods maze. After you learn the song on the Ocarina, it becomes permanent background music there.

* SubvertedPlayed with in ''[[RWBY]]''. In the opening scenes of the very first episode (Volume 1 Episode 1), Ruby's clearly listening to [[Theme Song]] "This Will Be The Day" until she decides to interrupt the robbery of the Dust shop. After she follows one of the Mooks through the shop window, the music switches from a tinny, "heard over headphones" version to a high-quality version --— [[Left the Background Music On|until we hear the "click" of Ruby turning off her player and the music stops. ]]

* During the [[Sad Times Montage]] which opens Season 2 of ''[[The Venture Bros]].'', the music which backs the entire montage is eventually revealed to be the techno track which is playing at the rave where Brock tracks down Doctor Venture.

* In ''[[ThundercatsThunderCats (2011 (Western Animationseries)|ThunderCatsthe (2011)]] reboot of ''ThunderCats'']]:

** In "Song of the Petalars" the [[Ethereal Choir]] is in[[In-universeUniverse]] singing by the Petalars that flows into a more expansive theme after they finish singing.

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