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Music is a powerful tool. With a good musical director, a [[Narm]] becomes a Hallelujah Moment, a dull comedy sequence becomes [[Mickey Mousing|hilarious]], and a theme tune gets [[Ear Worm|stuck on your head for days]].
The '''Theme Song Reveal''' is when it goes a little further.
In the Theme Song Reveal, ''actual elements of the plot'' are hinted at, suggested, or outright stated, and the music is the giveaway. It's a [[Musical Spoiler]], but an intentional one, and one that gives away plot details.
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Used well, this trope can serve as a much-needed nod to the musically-observant, or to everyone with a working set of ears, depending on the way music is used in the work as a whole. Used poorly, it might result in a hint no-one notices, or a painful [[Foreshadowing]] anvil.
It seems to be used more in video games, where the use of soundtrack is more prominent, in all but the most cinematic [[Cutscene
See also [[Musical Spoiler]], the unintentional version of this trope.
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== [[Theatre]] ==
* Opera example: In [[Richard Wagner]]'s ''Die Walküre'' (from his gargantuan ''[[Der Ring Des Nibelungen|Ring]]'' cycle ), the eponymous heroine Brünnhilde tells Sieglinde that this [[Damsel in Distress]] is
** An even better example from the first act of the same opera: when Siegmund is telling the story of how his father mysteriously vanished, the trombones very quietly play the Valhalla theme (which is also Wotan's theme). In the following scene, Sieglinde describes an old man in gray who came to her wedding to Hunding and stuck a sword in the ash tree, while the same [[Leitmotif]] plays.
** In ''Götterdämmerung'', when Hagen is singing to Gunther about being only his half-brother, Alberich's motif is played, pointing to the fact that Hagen is Alberich's son, revealed later in the opera.
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