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A song specific in content and tone to a character from an anime, sung by the character's voice performer—usually on a soundtrack CD.
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* Seeing as ''[[Saint Beast]]'' has an [[All-Star Cast]] of [[Voice Actors]] and began as an audio drama, there are multiple image songs and cds for the series.
* [[Puella Magi Madoka Magica]] has Madoka's ''See You Tomorrow'' and Kyouko's and Sayaka's duet ''And I'm Home''.
* The ''entirety'' of the ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KcXeG8iz10 Letters and Doll ～Looking back on the memories of Violet Evergarden～]'' album consists of nothing but image songs for Violet Evergarden from ''[[Violet Evergarden (anime)|Violet Evergarden]]''.
== Comic Books ==
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== Film ==
* For the ''[[James Bond]]'' film that eventually became ''[[Thunderball]]'', a theme tune was written for its previous title, ''Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang''. While the title was changed, necessitating a new theme, "Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" typifies Bond's character so well that it served as Bond's Image Song.
** Though the replacement theme, Tom Jones' "Thunderball", still fits the trope. And years later, in ''[[Casino Royale]]'', Chris Cornell wrote "You Know My Name" to serve as an Image Song for the inexperienced Bond (as the [[Leitmotif]] is only used at the final scene).
* Six years after ''[[My Cousin Vinny]]'', [[Joe Pesci]] revived his character for the album ''Vincent LaGuardia Gambini Sings Just for You''. Many who heard it wished that he hadn't.
* "Gollum's Song" (Gollum) and "Into the West" (Galadriel) from the ''[[The Lord of the Rings (film)|The Lord of the Rings]]'' films seem to fit.
== Live-Action TV ==
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* ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' has the episode "The Inner Light". For anyone who has seen that episode, the song is synonymous with Picard and the character development he goes through in that episode. There's the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5EluFlra2A original flavor], the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6su9jVj_pXY flute and piano duet], or the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=606Vk2iSFNk complete orchestral version].
** [[Leonard Nimoy]] recorded a song entitled [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6C70QRbawN8 Highly Illogical] which, while it never mentions [[The Spock|Spock]] by name, is pretty obviously sung in-character as him.
* [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]] has put out several albums of songs sung by their wrestlers that are supposed to provide more insight on the characters, including ''The Wrestling Album'', ''Piledriver: The Wrestling Album II'', ''Wrestlemania: The Album'', and ''WWE Originals''. Without exception, they all pretty much suck.
** One possible exception would be Kurt Angle, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyS9ewAolH0 who on his "Originals" track claims quite the opposite.]
*** Kurt Angle lies. He may not suck, but that song certainly does.
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* ''[[Fans]]!'' actually had an entire chapter about a musical vampire that included Image Songs for most of the main characters.
* ''[[Erfworld]]'' has "Quest for the Arkentools", sung by the comic writer, from Warlord Stanely's POV.
* The songs in '''[[Homestuck]]'' don't normally have lyrics, though a handful of album exclusive ones do, a few of them acting as [[Image Songs]] for the characters. The first is the original (Scrapped) version of [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqKvmyPhUf8 The Ballad of Jack Noir], which serves as an image song for, well, Jack Noir. The second is Eridan's Walkabout which, while not having a vocal track, was released with [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBB7nP6m5OA a set of lyrics] that serve as this for Eridan... or at least, for his pirate persona. Interestingly, the lyrics seem to indicate that Eridan is not, in fact, the one singing. The third is [https://web.archive.org/web/20131103103115/http://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/temporal-shenanigans Temporal Shenanigans], which acts as a theme for Aradia, illustrating her character development through the comic.
== Western Animation ==
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