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See also [[Recycled Trailer Music]].

== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

* ''[[Rebuild of Evangelion]] 2.0: You Can (Not) Advance'' used music from ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' along with several tracks from ''[[Kare Kano]]''<ref>Hideaki Anno's next series, with music by the same composer</ref> and one track from the 1979 semiclassic ''The Man Who Stole the Sun''.

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** James Horner is notorious for his repetition - all composers do so, but rarely to that extent.

* [[John Williams]] quotes his own Yoda's Theme from ''[[The Empire Strikes Back]]'' in ''[[E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial|ET the Extraterrestrial]]'' when the eponymous alien sees a child trick-or-treating in a Yoda costume.

* John Williams was too busy to properly do the music on ''[[Harry Potter (film)|Harry Potter]] and the Chamber of Secrets''. He managed to compose a few new themes ("Gilderoy Lockhart", "Moaning Myrtle", etc.) and then someone else (William Ross, specifically) was hired to create the ''Chamber of Secrets'' soundtrack out of the new themes and the themes from the previous movie, ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone''. As a result, ''Chamber'' recycles a lot of musical cues from ''Philosopher's Stone''. For example, the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyHDb025oOo&t=0m41s pixie scene] uses the same music as the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rPUBXLGsdw&t=1m26s flying keys scene]. And the music from the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aQEcHwRCmo&t=2m38s end scene in the Great Hall] is a slightly remixed version of "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYIh-OmRGmU Leaving Hogwarts]" from ''Philosopher's Stone''. In fact, it seems Ross had go into Williams' non-''Potter'' work. The music used for the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWESUQUS4tI&t=3m30s Quidditch trench chase] sounds a whole lot like "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LJ3CUGSmXk&t=2m33s The Chase Through Coruscant]" from ''[[Attack of the Clones]]''. (In subsequent ''Potter'' films, music from previous installments other than "Hedwig's Theme" was used very sparingly, resulting in Voldemort having no less than three [[Leitmotif]]s at different points in the series.)

* John Williams was too busy to properly do the music on ''[[Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (film)|Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets]]''. He managed to compose a few new themes ("Gilderoy Lockhart", "Moaning Myrtle", etc.) and then someone else (William Ross, specifically) was hired to create the ''Chamber of Secrets'' soundtrack out of the new themes and the themes from the previous movie, ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone''. As a result, ''Chamber'' recycles a lot of musical cues from ''Philosopher's Stone''. For example, the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyHDb025oOo&t=0m41s pixie scene] uses the same music as the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rPUBXLGsdw&t=1m26s flying keys scene]. And the music from the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aQEcHwRCmo&t=2m38s end scene in the Great Hall] is a slightly remixed version of "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYIh-OmRGmU Leaving Hogwarts]" from ''Philosopher's Stone''. In fact, it seems Ross had go into Williams' non-''Potter'' work. The music used for the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWESUQUS4tI&t=3m30s Quidditch trench chase] sounds a whole lot like "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LJ3CUGSmXk&t=2m33s The Chase Through Coruscant]" from ''[[Attack of the Clones]]''. (In subsequent ''Potter'' films, music from previous installments other than "Hedwig's Theme" was used very sparingly, resulting in Voldemort having no less than three [[Leitmotif]]s at different points in the series.)

** When the Boggart turns into a giant snake in ''Prisoner of Azkaban'', John Williams quotes the snake theme from ''[[Raiders of the Lost Ark]]''.

* Hans Zimmer used themes from ''[[The Rock]]'' in at least ''[[Gladiator]]'' and the ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]'' trilogy.