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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.
Say you're watching your favourite TV show, and Bob and Chris encounter a [[Black Cloak]] with a mask. They don't know who it is. But ''you'' do, because you bought the first season soundtrack and listened to it enough to know it all by heart, and you know that whenever [[Black Cloak]] does anything more exciting than walking down a hallway, [[Leitmotif|Alice's Theme]] plays softly in the background. Alice can change her outfit, but no amount of plastic surgery can change her theme music.
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[Digimon Adventure 02]]'' had Myotismon's theme play when Malo Myotismon's face appears as a partial silhouette, an episode before he revealed himself.
* When Archer cuts loose with his [[Field of Blades|Unlimited Blade Works]] in ''[[Fate/stay night]]'', a more badass version of {{spoiler|"Emiya"}} starts playing, signifying that this guy is {{spoiler|the [[Future Badass]] version of the protagonist}}.
** It played during {{spoiler|the final battle in the Fate scenario when Shirou is projecting Saber's sheath}}, as well as {{spoiler|Shirou's fights against Archer and Gilgamesh}} in the UBW route and against {{spoiler|Dark Berserker and Kotomine}} in the HF route. In fact, the game only uses the song for * one* of Archer's scenes in all three routes, and even then it starts playing when he's ''losing''. Its usage in the anime is really more a [[Fridge Brilliance]] moment of [[Foreshadowing]] for anyone who is familiar with the game.
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== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
* "Martha's Theme" in ''[[Doctor Who]]'' was specifically written to sound a little like the theme tune of the Doctor's previous companion, Rose, ''and'' to share its opening notes with the "Doctor's Theme", thus presenting the viewers with two subtle cues as to Martha's role in the plot of Series 3.
** When the Doctor and Professor Yana, aka. {{spoiler|the Master, the Doctor's fellow Time Lord and childhood friend,}} first meet in "[[Doctor Who
** Speaking of "Rose's Theme", it became so identified with that character, that in at least two instances (in which Rose reappeared in the series after having left earlier) it was the ''only'' identifier used for the character, with her name not even being uttered for the benefit of those not familiar with the established canon.
** In series 6, the same track plays during {{spoiler|The Doctor's death}} in "The Impossible Astronaut" and {{spoiler|the revelation of River's identity}} in "A Good Man Goes to War", foreshadowing that {{spoiler|it is indeed River in the suit}}. The track's name on the soundtrack is {{spoiler|"Melody Pond"}}.
* The opening credits/theme of Fringe are changed to suit the episode. If it's a flashback, then an '80's style font is used, the technology words used are from that era and the theme has an electronic tone. If it's set in the alternate universe, then everything is red instead of the usual blue of our own universe and the technology words reflect that alternate world.
* In "[[Life On Mars]]," Sam Tyler is listening to the titular David Bowie song on his iPod when he gets into his car accident. He spends the rest of the next two series taking a look at the lawman beating up the wrong guy, and trying to make sense of his life while feeling like he's on another planet.
* In the series finale of ''Smallville'' stings of the classic John Williams Superman theme are used throughout the episode to hint at where things are headed, with the entire theme bursting forth at the appropriate moment.
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* 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 ''[[Earthbound]]'', 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 ''[[Earthbound]]'' 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.
* In ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog|Sonic]] and the Black Knight,'' the main theme is full of what seems like a bunch of knightly nonsense to fit the theme of the game, such as "I will conquer near and far" and "By the table I command." It sounds like it's about King Arthur, but it's performed by Crush 40, the typical "voice" of Sonic and Shadow. It seems like they just got lazy, until the end of the game reveals that {{spoiler|Sonic is the true King Arthur, possibly literally; the one the Black Knight replaced may have been to Sonic as the game's Gawain is to Knuckles}}. A few astute fans actually suggested something to this effect before the game was released based on the first verse of the song.
** This get quite obvious when {{spoiler|Sonic is dubbed "Knight Of The Wind"}} before ''and'' after the duel against Percival.
* In ''[[Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep]]'', Vanitas's battle theme {{spoiler|takes cues from Sora's AND Roxas's themes}}.
** In addition, the Unversed boss themes {{spoiler|contain part of Vanitas' theme, hinting at the fact that that they all come from him}}.
** [[Word of God|Nomura]] has stated that [[Bonus Boss|Mysterious Figure's]] battle theme is also this. {{spoiler|It takes cues from Rage Awakened (Terra's Lingering Sentiment), Darkness of the Unknown (Xemnas's final battle theme in ''[[Kingdom Hearts II]]''), and Lord of the Castle (Marluxia's final battle theme in ''Re: Chain of Memories'')}}. Make of that what you will.
* In ''[[Final Fantasy VI]]'', Celes' theme is very obviously a variation on "Aria de Mezzo Caraterre", the song used for the famous opera sequence. It heavily foreshadows her [[Character Development]] in the second half of the game during the World of Ruin.
** "Dancing Mad" is a massive [[Boss Remix]] of many different songs used in the game, and many of the pieces incorporated into it have some sort of symbolism attached [http://www.destructoid.com/final-fantasy-vi-s-dancing-mad-a-critical-analysis-157570.phtml if you listen hard enough.]
* In [[Digital Devil Saga]] 2 as soon as [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45jNW5kjBCo Inherent Will] starts playing you know {{spoiler|someone will die}}.
* In [[Katawa Shoujo]], this is combined with [[Chekhov's Gun]] in {{spoiler|Lilly's good}} ending. {{spoiler|He wakes up in his hospital bed, hearing a music box in the background, then realizes that it's the music box he gave to Lilly, proof that she never left for Scotland. Lilly herself then walks into the room moments later}}.
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== [[Web Original]] ==
* It's hard to be sure this early, but the theme song to ''[[RWBY]]'', "This Will Be The Day", definitely seems to be hinting at ''something''.
** The songs from the four [[Trailers]] also are clearly implying things; as of the first season's halfway point, "From Shadows" (from the "Black" trailer) seems to be the most comprehensible, referring (in retrospect) to Blake's history.
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