Theme Song Reveal: Difference between revisions

 

See also [[Musical Spoiler]], the unintentional version of this trope.

 

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

** In ''[[Metal Gear Solid 4]]'', {{spoiler|Big Boss}}'s theme plays over the voice actor credits...

* Players of ''[[Onimusha]] III'' will probably figure out quite easily, if not from the hundreds of other giveaways, who exactly Tenkai in ''Onimusha: Dawn of Dreams'' is.

* ''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.}}

** 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.

 

== [[Web Comics]] ==

** Album listeners will instantly know what will happen in Intermission 2 when the music starts playing. {{spoiler|The song used is "English".}}