History Main / DarkReprise

* Music/TheCaretaker's ''Everywhere At The End of Time'' album series, an auditory depiction of the progression of dementia, invokes this with its samples of classical and ballroom jazz tunes, several of which were used on the project's prior albums. For example, the "[[HellIsThatNoise Hell Sirens]]" section of ''Stage 4'' is a heavily slowed down and degraded version of the intro to "Granada" by Mantovani and His Orchestra, previously sampled on ''Theoretically Pure Anterograde Amnesia''.

* Cord Lund's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1V3JW4HeBs I Wanna Be in the Cavalry]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVRbEGlB4sc its reprise:]] The [[WarIsGlorious first song]] is an upbeat country song about a young recruit, full of eagerness and enthusiasm who wants to join the cavalry. [[WarIsHell The reprise is a song about the hardships of being of a cavalryman in the 19th century]], [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome disease, starvation, and the elements and all]]. To add to the bleakness, the narrator is a soldier [[HopelessWar in an army fighting]] [[DespairEventHorizon a losing war]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/PussInBootsTheLastWish'', while burying his clothes for his TenMinuteRetirement, Puss tries to cheer himself by singing his usual upbeat song "Fearless Hero"...only to break down sobbing over how badly his encounter with The Wolf traumatized him.

'''''Misbehave.'''''

* ''Film/{{Predator}}'' has a pop-music version: As the commandos' helicopter is touching down in the jungle, the guys are full of macho bravado, slathering on camouflage makeup and trading humorous insults, while Little Richard's "Long Tall Sally" blasts from a cassette player; the music is then abruptly cut off during the landing. Later in the movie, when the commandos are finally starting to realize that they're being hunted by a killer from outer space, Mac suffers some SanitySlippage and begins [[MadnessMantra heedlessly babbling]] "He saw his baby coming and he jumped back in the alley...We gonna have some fun tonight...have some fun tonight..."

** The Money Montage segment originally used a dark reprise of "The Lights of Long Ago", but it was omitted from later productions and the film. It still has a minor-key instrumental reprise of "Mr. Fezziwig's Annual Christmas Ball" when Marley dies.

* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'': The episode "Simon and Marcy" has Simon sing the ''Series/{{Cheers}}'' theme song to entertain a young Marceline. When the two are beset by Ooze Zombies, Simon is forced to wear [[ArtifactOfDoom the crown]] to protect themselves and he sings the song in a desperate attempt to hang onto his sanity.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Popeye}}'' on his birthday befriends a lonely little schnook who slowly but surely drives him nuts with his manic accident-prone cheer, singing "Happy Birthday to my pal" right up to the last straw when Popeye ''shoots'' him, and the cartoon ends the song on a somber chord.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''
** In the episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS3E21BlackWidower Black Widower]]", there's a scene where Selma and the seemingly-reformed Sideshow Bob sing "Somethin' Stupid" together as a duet. At the climax of the episode, after Selma's hotel room blows up and Bob believes his plan is successful, he sings a rather morbid version:

** After Apu loses his job he sings an upbeat song "Who needs the Kwik-E-Mart?", Later with the dark reprise: "Who needs the Kwik-E-Mart?... [[IWantSong I dooooooooo]]!"
---> '''Homer:''' He lied to us through song! I HATE when people do that!
** In the episode "Elementary School Musical", the Art Camp counselors (who are actually Music/FlightOfTheConchords) sing Lisa and the other kids a song about how exciting being an artist is. When Lisa travels to Sprooklyn to become an artist, however, they decide to "sing her the truth"; a dark reprise about how [[StarvingArtist being an artist means taking demeaning jobs and living off sandwiches that dropped on the floor]].

* ''WesternAnimation/TheManyAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh'': Two instances occur during the ''Honey Tree'' chapter. During the scene where the bees chase Pooh as the balloon deflates, a comical fast-paced version of "Little Black Rain Cloud" can be heard. Then when Christopher Robin catches Pooh and the bees lead a swarm after them, the song plays again with a frightening, urgent tone.

* In the ''My Friends Tigger & Pooh'' film ''[[Franchise/WinnieThePooh Pooh's Super Sleuth Christmas Movie]]'', there's "Christmas Isn't Coming," a sad reprise of the special's opening number "Christmas Comes Tomorrow," performed after the Sleuths and the rest of the cast, sans Darby, have given up the quest to reach the North Pole as hopeless.

* The main title of ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII'' is a mildly dark reprise of the theme music. It's played on lower instruments and, while still sounding perhaps triumphant, there is a certain foreboding to it.

** ''Film/Batman1989''

** There's a more straightforward example in ''Film/BatmanReturns''. During the "Lair" sequence, we hear a poignant, hopeful violin piece as The Penguin speaks of returning to the world above and once again being accepted as a human being. After he has been rejected once again and vowed to kill all the children of Gotham City, the Penguin's theme is heard once more...this time (once again) in "chimey, creepy lullaby" style as the Penguin plays with an umbrella from which have been hung [[SubvertedInnocence various toy animals]].

** [[http://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/hate-you-2 "Hate You"]] ends on a Dark Reprise of Feferi's Theme, [[https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/love-you-feferis-theme-2 "Love You"]]. It even replaces Feferi's pearly laugh by Meenah's mischievous giggles... which then overlap with the EvilLaugh of her tyrannical adult alternate self, in all [[JustForPun her imperious condescension]].

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Pibby}}'': The trailer opens with ''Learning with Pibby'''s theme song, a cheerful and innocent tune suitable for a cartoon for small children. Near the end, well after [[SubvertedKidsShow the true tone of the series becomes evident]], the background music changes to a version with slow, emotionless vocals and a progressively harsher mechanical beat. In particular, as Pibby witnesses an EldritchAbomination assume the former of her deceased friend Bun-Bun, the last line is layered to sound outright demonic.

* "Music/{{Amnesiac}}" by Music/{{Radiohead}} features a darker, more orchestral-sounding reprise of "Morning Bell" from Music/KidA in the form of "Morning Bell/Amnesiac".

* As a face, Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin enters the ring to "I Won't Do What You Tell Me". During his heel runs, Austin would enter the ring to Music/{{Disturbed}}'s pitched down metal remix of said theme, titled "Glass Shatters".

* After Wrestling/SashaBanks turned heel in early 2019, her original theme "Sky's The Limit" gains a remix with darker brass and darker lyrics rapped by Music/SnoopDogg, one of which describes her current attitude as a heel:

* [[Wrestling/AdrianNeville Neville]], during his heroic cape-wearing days would come out to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZQXsrDQ7lk "Break Orbit"]], a fast-paced electronic rock track. After his FaceHeelTurn and his transformation into the ruthless "King of the Cruiserweights", [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvVZtRGc_q4 his theme]] became slower and gained a more menacing feel.

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