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* ''Sin Episodes: Emergence'', an otherwise mediocre sequel to a great game, does this very nicely by using variants on the characters' themes just before they appear. It's used to particularly good effect with Elexis.
* In the video game ''[[Flower, Sun, and Rain|Flower, Sun and Rain]]'' the end credits roll to a song nicknamed ''Welcome Home''. That song may be the single most leitmotif-heavy song Masafumi Takada has ever written. One interesting thing about it is near the end of the song, it stops abruptly with a needle drop noise, and then resumes again. But when it resumes, you can actually catch the subtle leitmotif of the song ''Kusabi'' from Grasshopper's previous game ''The Silver Case''. This is foreshadowing ''Flower, Sun, and Rain's'' [[The Stinger|stinger]], which reveals that {{spoiler|your new pal Peter Bocchwinkur is really your old pal Tetsugorō Kusabi from ''The Silver Case'', whose theme music was hidden in the end credits theme.}}
* In ''[[Mother 3]]'', while breaking into the playroom of the enigmatic "King P", Lucas and party encounters a jukebox that plays {{spoiler|the "shop" and "hotel" theme from ''[[EarthboundEarthBound]]'', making it even more obvious that the Pig King is none other than [[Spell My Name with an "S"|Pokey/Porky]] Minch}}.
** The Magypsy theme music is a faux-Baroque string aria, but most of the time it's overlaid with kind of a funky saxophone countermelody. When {{spoiler|the reconstructed Fassad and his interpreter}} appear, the former, {{spoiler|who now can only speak through the horns on his face, "sings" that same saxophone line when he speaks}}. It's later revealed that {{spoiler|Fassad was the treacherous seventh Magypsy}}.
*** Done waaay before that in ''[[EarthboundEarthBound]]'' the enemy music in the ''final area'' of the game is a remix of {{spoiler|Porkys}} theme when you talk to him. Gee, wonder who the boss of that area is? Granted, it isn't ''his'' battle theme but it still is a spoiler/foreshadowing. Although, most people don't notice this, as {{spoiler|Porkys}} theme doesn't play often and it is one of the mroe forgettable tracks.
* In ''[[Final Fantasy VII]] Advent Children'', upon Kadaj, Loz and Yazoo's first appearance, before any other information is revealed about them, Sephiroth's leitmotif, 'Those Chosen By The Planet', plays in the background. This, of course, spoils Sephiroth's resurrection and the nature of his Remnants.
* It takes a sharp ear, but in ''[[Super Paper Mario]]'', the true identity of [[Big Bad|Count Bleck]] can be determined pretty early on if you notice that his theme is a variation on the "Memory" theme used during the flashbacks in-between chapters.
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