Title Theme Drop: Difference between revisions

* In ''[[Cave Story (Video Game)|Cave Story]]'', the title music plays in an area toward the end of the game (the plantation), just before you ascend to fight the [[Big Bad]].

* All of the video games based on ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1987 (Animation)|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1987]]'' are full of this, ranging from occasional quoting of the "heroes in a half-shell" riff to remixing the entire theme song.

* ''[[La Mulana]]'' plays its title screen theme {{spoiler|in the hub village}} when the last Guardian has been defeated and the way to the final battle is open.

* The ''[[Mega Man (Video Game)|Mega Man]]'' [[Game Mod|ROM hack]] ''Rockman no Constancy'' uses its title screen theme for the final stage.

** In the actual ''[[Mega Man (Video Game)|Mega Man]] II'' for the [[Game Boy]], the title song plays during the final stage too.

* Both ''[[Sonic Adventure (Video Game)|Sonic Adventure]]'' [[Sonic Adventure 2 (Video Game)|games]] had their title screen music play during the [[Final Boss]] battle.

** Most ''Sonic'' games beyond those do this as well. Heck, it's one of the few redeeming qualities of ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog 2006 (Video Game)|Sonic the Hedgehog 2006]]''.

** ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog (Video Game)|Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' uses its title screen theme as its invincibility theme.

* [[Klonoa (Video Game)|Klonoa: Door to Phantomile]] has it's [[World Map]] theme dropped during the [[Tear Jerker|final cutscene.]] {{spoiler|It's the Song Of Rebirth.}}

* Every ''[[Megaman Battle Network]]'' game has a version of the main theme in the last stage.

* In ''[[Final Fantasy X (Video Game)|Final Fantasy X]]'', the theme heard on the "load game" screen shows up the first time an Aeon is summoned.

* In ''[[Final Fantasy III (Video Game)|Final Fantasy III]]'' and ''[[Final Fantasy IV (Video Game)|Final Fantasy IV]]'', the [[Bootstrapped Theme]] Prelude plays during the title screen and while at crystal rooms. In ''[[Final Fantasy V (Video Game)|Final Fantasy V]]'' and ''[[Final Fantasy IX (Video Game)|Final Fantasy IX]]'', this overlaps with [[Leitmotif]].

* The parody game ''[[Barkley Shut Up and Jam Gaiden]]'' uses its title theme for the first phase of the final battle.

* ''[[Last Scenario (Video Game)|Last Scenario]]'' uses its title theme as the BGM for {{spoiler|[[Disc One Final Dungeon|the Temple of Gaia]]}} (and some time before in the lecture room of the Geo-Science Station).

* This is done during pivotal (usually uplifting) moments in ''[[The Reconstruction (Video Game)|The Reconstruction]]'', often as a [[Theme Music Power-Up]] of sorts.

* ''[[Monster Hunter (Video Game)|Monster Hunter]]'' plays "Testament of a Hero" when the last stage of the [[Our Dragons Are Different|Lao Shan Lung]] battle is reached, which is coincidentally the only place where you [[Plot Armor|can actually kill the thing.]] In ''Monster Hunter Tri'', it plays after you hit the Jhen Morhan with a dragonator in the second phase instead, 1.) Because Lao doesn't show up in that game, and 2.) Because it usually means a victory is guarenteed, even if the Shen just runs away rather than you killing it.

* In ''[[Tales of Phantasia (Video Game)|Tales of Phantasia]]'' the title theme plays when {{spoiler|you heal the dying tree Yggdrasil in the past, preventing it from being dead in the present/future and allowing you to use magic in the rest of the game}}.

* The ''[[Touhou (Video Game)|Touhou]]'' doujin game ''MegaMari'' uses its title screen theme for the final battle.

== [[Turn Based Strategy]] ==

* In ''[[Ever 17 (Visual Novel)|Ever 17]]'', "Karma" (the menu music) plays during most [[Tear Jerker|Tear Jerking]] moments and [[Downer Ending|Downer Endings]].

** Same for ''[[Remember 11 (Visual Novel)|Remember 11]]''. A version of main theme/menu music "All or None" plays during most bad ends.

* In ''[[Fate Stay Night (Visual Novel)|Fate Stay Night]]'', "Into the Night" starts playing during the boss battle in ''Fate'' route, and also during the [[I Know You Are in There Somewhere Fight|final encounter]] with {{spoiler|Dark Sakura}} in ''Heaven's Feel''.

* In ''[[Lifesigns Surgical Unit]]'', the main theme plays over the ending of the first episode if the player manages to [[Take a Third Option]] during the episode's climax. It's also remixed into the ending themes.

* Happens in episode 13 of ''[[Wedding Peach (Manga)|Wedding Peach]]''.

* The opening theme of ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha (Anime)|Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'', "Innocent Starter", receives a [[Nostalgic Music Box]] remix that appears in ''[[The Movie]] First'' remake. It serves as background music for the quiet moment after Nanoha and Fate's second battle, where Nanoha finally resolves to reach out to Fate and find out why her eyes seem so lonely while Fate prepares to meet [[Abusive Parents|her mother]].

* The instrumental versions of the themes from ''[[James Bond (Film)|James Bond]]'' movies ''[[Goldfinger]]'', [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Qi3Xy9KAgQ&feature=related Thunderball], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tz8Y0n1jAg You only live twice], ''[[Diamonds Are Forever]], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiI-CTFBRKQ&feature=related Live and Let Die], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39i8dqlg7Mw&feature=related The Man with the Golden Gun], Moonraker, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAjJZRUnA74 For your eyes only], ''[[Octopussy]]'' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lawgufwcNRg A view to a kill], The Living Daylights, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFZ-356jsC0&feature=related Tomorrow never dies], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bowNOuzJAWg The World is not enough],[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8BAUALunT8 Casino Royale] and Quantum of Solace (Shirley Bassey's rejected theme "No good about goodbye") can be listened during their films (just click on the movies' names to hear samples from the soundtrack).

* In ''[[Star Trek Insurrection (Film)|Star Trek Insurrection]]'', Worf bats a pursuing robot drone out of the air with his out-of-charge phaser rifle. The music for that action is a phrase of the original Klingon theme from ''[[Star Trek: The Motion Picture (Film)|Star Trek the Motion Picture]]''. It turns up in ''[[Star Trek First Contact (Film)|Star Trek First Contact]]'' as well, Jerry Goldsmith composed all three movies, and he used his Klingon theme as a leitmotif for Worf. He also composed ''[[Star Trek Nemesis (Film)|Star Trek Nemesis]]'', though this theme may not have appeared in that film.

* The ''[[Speed Racer (Film)|Speed Racer]]'' movie uses parts of the old show's theme tune throughout the movie. His [[Theme Music Power-Up]] was to the part that went "Go Speed Racer, Go Speed Racer, Go Speed Racer, Go!"

* In the ''[[Indiana Jones (Franchise)|Indiana Jones]]'' films ''[[Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade (Film)|Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade]]'' and ''[[Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of The Crystal Skull (Film)|Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of The Crystal Skull]]'' briefly feature the ominous Ark of the Covenant leitmotif from the first film, when the Ark is depicted in a crypt in ''Last Crusade'' and when we glimpse the Ark itself in the warehouse in ''Crystal Skull''.

* In ''[[E.T. the Extraterrestrial (Film)|ET the Extraterrestrial]]'' when Elliot and ET go out on Halloween, ET(under a ghost sheet) is drawn to a child dressed as Yoda and says "Home! Home!" as a bit of Yoda's theme from ''[[The Empire Strikes Back (Film)|The Empire Strikes Back]]'' plays. Both films were scored by John Williams.

* The finale of season four of ''[[House (TV)|House]]'' played a cover of "Teardrop" by José González

** ''[[Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger (TV)|Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger]]'' does a variation. During a tribute episode, whenever they transform into the focused team, said teams theme music played. There are only three times when this wasn't done, and the reasons are because [[They Just Didn't Care]], to avert [[Mood Whiplash]] and because of popularity over the actual opening, respectively.

* In the '80s ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1987 (Animation)|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' cartoon, the main action theme that played while the Turtles kicked butt is actually a countermelody to the title theme and is actually present in that song as a harmony line.

* The title theme from ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender (Animation)|Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' gets dropped during the show when something epic happens - usually Aang going into the Avatar state.

* In the ''[[101 Dalmatians (Disney)|101 Dalmatians: The Series]]'' episode, "Mall Pups", the main theme plays (without the singing) when the pups are running away from Lt. Pug in the mall.