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Compare: [[Playing the Heart Strings]], where sound effects are muted for music; [[One-Woman Wail]], where you hear a wailing singing voice; [[Lonely Piano Piece]], where one character or very few characters realize that they're on their own; [[Ethereal Choir]], where a distant choir harmonizes with the scene. All of these can overlap with this trope when they accompany the right kind of scene.
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== Anime ==
* In ''[[Dragonball Z]]'' episode 25, Krillin and Gohan fight Nappa to a sad fighting theme. Averted in the Western dub, where it is replaced with a more action-y theme.
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== Film ==
* In [[Braveheart]], during the Battle of Falkirk, sad music begins to play as the Scottish nobles William Wallace trusted to help them flee the field instead, and the King of England, Edward Longshanks, orders his archers to fire on the infantry fighting in the front. The music becomes more tragic and dramatic as Wallace attempts to chase after Longshanks, and finds out that yet another Scottish noble he trusted betrayed him, causing him to suffer a [[Heroic BSOD]] after witnessing this [[Despair Event Horizon]].
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* ''[[Star Wars]] Episode III: [[Revenge of the Sith]]'' gives us "Anakin's Betrayal", which plays during the march on the Jedi Temple, courtesy of Order 66.
* In the movie of ''[[The Lord of the Rings (film)|Lord of the Rings]]: The Return of the King'', Pippin sings a song for Denethor. It's a sad melody. At the same time, Faramir and his battalion charge Osgiliath, and it doesn't go well.
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