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* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': One of the few items that Lestat de Lioncourt had brought over from France is an ornate music box which carries a lot of sentimental value for him. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptQLRbpN3r0 The tune it plays]] was written by Lestat and it's dedicated to his FirstLove Nicolas.
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* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': One In "[[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E1InThroesOfIncreasingWonder In Throes of Increasing Wonder...]]", one of the few items that Lestat de Lioncourt had brought over from France is an ornate music box which carries a lot of sentimental value for him. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptQLRbpN3r0 The tune it plays]] was written by Lestat and it's dedicated to his FirstLove Nicolas.
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* ''Film/BatmanAndRobin'': Mister Freeze has turned an alarm clock, a glass jar, and an ice sculpture of his wife into an impromptu music box. He stares intently at it turn, but can only manage a single tear (that quickly freezes and sublimates given his [[IncrediblyLamePun icy]] demeanor).
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* ''Film/BatmanAndRobin'': Mister Freeze has turned an alarm clock, a glass jar, and an ice sculpture of his wife into an impromptu music box. He stares intently at it turn, turn but can only manage a single tear (that quickly freezes and sublimates given his [[IncrediblyLamePun [[{{Pun}} icy]] demeanor).
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The opposite of OminousMusicBoxTune when the tune sounds much more sinister...though the two dovetail into each other quite often.
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The opposite of OminousMusicBoxTune when the tune sounds much more sinister...though the two dovetail into each other quite often.
often. See also SnowGlobeOfInnocence.
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[[AC:For added atmosphere, play [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Cv2lA91n-Pc this music]] while reading on.]]
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->''And the musical box continues to turn,''\\
''The candle in the window continues to burn,''\\
''But I know they're just memories''\\
''Like Christmas Past and You and Me''
-->-- "Music Box Blues," '''Music/TransSiberianOrchestra'''
''The candle in the window continues to burn,''\\
''But I know they're just memories''\\
''Like Christmas Past and You and Me''
-->-- "Music Box Blues," '''Music/TransSiberianOrchestra'''
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->''And the musical box continues to turn,''\\
''Theturn,\\
The candle in the window continues toburn,''\\
''Butburn,\\
But I know they're justmemories''\\
''Likememories\\
Like Christmas Past and You and Me''
-->-- '''Music/TransSiberianOrchestra''', "Music BoxBlues," '''Music/TransSiberianOrchestra'''
Blues"
''The
The candle in the window continues to
''But
But I know they're just
''Like
Like Christmas Past and You and Me''
-->-- '''Music/TransSiberianOrchestra''', "Music Box
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* ''Anime/CowboyBebop'' has two. The first episode, "Asteroid Blues", opens with a music box track titled ''Memory''. The two-part episode "Jupiter Jazz" features a music box as a plot point. The track used for the melody is ''Space Lion (organ version)''.
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* ''Anime/CowboyBebop'' has two. The first episode, "Asteroid Blues", "[[Recap/CowboyBebopSession1AsteroidBlues Asteroid Blues]]", opens with a music box track titled ''Memory''. The two-part episode "Jupiter Jazz" "[[Recap/CowboyBebopSession12JupiterJazzPart1 Jupiter]] [[Recap/CowboyBebopSession13JupiterJazzPart2 Jazz]]" features a music box as a plot point. The track used for the melody is ''Space Lion (organ version)''.
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* During many ''Anime/{{Naruto}}'' childhood flashbacks (most notably Hiruzen's), a music box rendition of Tenten's theme plays.
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* During many ''Anime/{{Naruto}}'' ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' childhood flashbacks (most notably Hiruzen's), a music box rendition of Tenten's theme plays.
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* In the 1978 movie ''Anime/RingingBell'', Chirin finishes crying over his mother's death, he starts to angrily march out of the sheep stable and heads to the mountain that Woe resides. A [[DarkReprise music box variation of the film's theme song is heard complete with military style drums]] while Chirin is marching out of the stable.
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* In the 1978 movie ''Anime/RingingBell'', ''Literature/RingingBell'', Chirin finishes crying over his mother's death, he starts to angrily march out of the sheep stable and heads to the mountain that Woe resides. A [[DarkReprise music box variation of the film's theme song is heard complete with military style drums]] while Chirin is marching out of the stable.
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* ''VideoGame/EarthBound'': The final rendition of the Eight Melodies, just before [[spoiler:entering Magicant]].
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* ''VideoGame/EarthBound'': ''VideoGame/EarthBound1994'': The final rendition of the Eight Melodies, just before [[spoiler:entering Magicant]].
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* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGyZwr8pIas Lumas' theme]] from ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy''. Bonus points for being played ''[[spoiler:[[SoundtrackDissonance as the universe is crushed into a supermassive black hole.]]]]''
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* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGyZwr8pIas Lumas' theme]] from ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy''. Bonus points for being played ''[[spoiler:[[SoundtrackDissonance as the universe is crushed into a supermassive black hole.]]]]''hole]]]]''.
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* ''Franchise/ProfessorLayton'':
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* ''Franchise/ProfessorLayton'':''VideoGame/ProfessorLayton'':
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* A music box version of the Shadowlord's theme plays in ''VideoGame/{{Nier}}'' when the Shadowlord is on his final bit of health. It's meant to represent how at this point [[DespairEventHorizon he just wants to die]].
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* A music box version of the Shadowlord's theme plays in ''VideoGame/{{Nier}}'' ''VideoGame/NieR'' when the Shadowlord is on his final bit of health. It's meant to represent how at this point [[DespairEventHorizon he just wants to die]].
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* One or two of the minigames present outside the main adventure of ''VideoGame/SuperMario64 DS'' (such as the LovesMeNot game) have a music box arrangment of the water level theme from [[VideoGame/SuperMarioBros the original game]] play in the background.
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* One or two of the minigames present outside the main adventure of ''VideoGame/SuperMario64 DS'' (such as the LovesMeNot game) have a music box arrangment of the water level theme from [[VideoGame/SuperMarioBros [[VideoGame/SuperMarioBros1 the original game]] play in the background.
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* The end credits theme from ''Film/ChildsPlay1988'' combines this with an EtherealChoir in order to evoke the loss of childhood innocence.
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->''And the musical box continues to turn,''
->''The candle in the window continues to burn,''
->''But I know they're just memories''
->''Like Christmas Past and You and Me''
->''The candle in the window continues to burn,''
->''But I know they're just memories''
->''Like Christmas Past and You and Me''
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->''And the musical box continues to turn,''
->''Theturn,''\\
''The candle in the window continues toburn,''
->''Butburn,''\\
''But I know they're justmemories''
->''Likememories''\\
''Like Christmas Past and You and Me''
->''The
''The candle in the window continues to
->''But
''But I know they're just
->''Like
''Like Christmas Past and You and Me''
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* ''Anime/LostUniverse'' tends to feature a music box whenever the main character talks or thinks about his past.
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* ''Anime/LostUniverse'' tends to feature Nadja Applefield from ''Anime/AshitaNoNadja'' has one of these among her {{Memento Mac Guffin}}s. [[spoiler:It was made as a gift for her MissingMom, then pawned away in Paris, and almost casually reached her.]] It later becomes ''very'' important, [[spoiler:when we find a certain music box sheet inside of it...]]
* ''Manga/CandyCandy'': Candy White Andree gets one from her friend Alistair, nicknamed "the Box of Happiness". [[spoiler:It becomes a TragicKeepsake when Alistair dies in UsefulNotes/WorldWarI.]]
* ''Anime/CodeGeass'' has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECVb4SA4hhs "If I Were a Bird"]], which plays wheneverthe main character talks or thinks about Rolo's locket opens, as a symbol of his past.happy times with Lelouch. It also plays in full force [[spoiler: during his HeroicSacrifice.]]
* ''Manga/CandyCandy'': Candy White Andree gets one from her friend Alistair, nicknamed "the Box of Happiness". [[spoiler:It becomes a TragicKeepsake when Alistair dies in UsefulNotes/WorldWarI.]]
* ''Anime/CodeGeass'' has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECVb4SA4hhs "If I Were a Bird"]], which plays whenever
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* ''Anime/TheVisionOfEscaflowne'' has a nostalgic music box, Millerna has a flashback montage to it.
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* ''Anime/TheVisionOfEscaflowne'' has This is featured in ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers''. Russia's character song starts out with a nostalgic slightly eerie music box, Millerna has a flashback montage to it.box melody.
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* ''Manga/SailorMoon''; there's a music box locket in the first season of the anime. This was inspired by a similarly shaped watch from the manga.
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* ''Manga/SailorMoon''; there's ''Anime/FullMoon'': Mitsuki learns of a song her father's band once performed called "Eternal Snow"[[note]] the show's 3rd ending theme[[/note]]. When she learns more about her mom and dad, among other things she finds a music box locket in that plays the first season of song's melody. From this point, the anime. This music box is played in almost every episode.
* ''Anime/LadyJewelpet'': Lillian finds a music box and its music makes her feel sad, but she doesn't understand why. It turns out to be because [[spoiler:Lillian wasinspired by a similarly shaped watch doll, and both her and the music box belonged to Diana, who cherished them both.]]
* ''Anime/LostUniverse'' tends to feature a music box whenever the main character talks or thinks about his past.
* The movie adaptation of ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha'' features a TitleThemeDrop of "Innocent Starter" when Nanoha resolves to become friends with Fate. It's rather appropriate if one is familiar with the song's lyrics.
* ''Manga/MidoriDays'': Midori has a music box on her bedside table where her real body is laying. Its melody is heard once or twice coming from themanga.box itself when her mother opens it, but the rest of the time the melody is used in Midori's flashbacks.
* ''Anime/LadyJewelpet'': Lillian finds a music box and its music makes her feel sad, but she doesn't understand why. It turns out to be because [[spoiler:Lillian was
* ''Anime/LostUniverse'' tends to feature a music box whenever the main character talks or thinks about his past.
* The movie adaptation of ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha'' features a TitleThemeDrop of "Innocent Starter" when Nanoha resolves to become friends with Fate. It's rather appropriate if one is familiar with the song's lyrics.
* ''Manga/MidoriDays'': Midori has a music box on her bedside table where her real body is laying. Its melody is heard once or twice coming from the
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* Aaeru in ''Anime/{{Simoun}}'' has a [[RuleOfCool wind-powered]] music box given to her by her grandfather. The music it plays is actually a flashback on a cultural scale, though, as "The Door To A New World" is a song passed down from the earliest generations of Simoun sibyllae.
* Nadja Applefield from ''Anime/AshitaNoNadja'' has one of these among her {{Memento Mac Guffin}}s. [[spoiler:It was made as a gift for her MissingMom, then pawned away in Paris, and almost casually reached her.]] It later becomes ''very'' important, [[spoiler:when we find a certain music sheet inside of it...]]
* Nadja Applefield from ''Anime/AshitaNoNadja'' has one of these among her {{Memento Mac Guffin}}s. [[spoiler:It was made as a gift for her MissingMom, then pawned away in Paris, and almost casually reached her.]] It later becomes ''very'' important, [[spoiler:when we find a certain music sheet inside of it...]]
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* ''Anime/CodeGeass'' has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECVb4SA4hhs "If I Were a Bird"]], which plays whenever Rolo's locket opens, as a symbol of his happy times with Lelouch. It also plays in full force [[spoiler: during his HeroicSacrifice.]]
* This is featured in ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers''. Russia's character song starts out with a slightly eerie music box melody.
* When alone, Suitengu of ''Anime/SpeedGrapher'' obsessively plays a music box with a melancholic tune and thinks about his past. This ultimately leads to a flashback indicating [[TragicKeepsake this is the only possession left from his happy childhood]], [[DarkAndTroubledPast which was destroyed]] by [[LoanShark loan sharks]]. Making things interesting, Saiga, the hero, independently whistles the same tune, foreshadowing the fact there's a connection between himself and Suitengu.
* In ''Anime/FullMoon'', Mitsuki learns of a song her father's band once performed called "Eternal Snow"[[note]] the show's 3rd ending theme[[/note]]. When she learns more about her mom and dad, among other things she finds a music box that plays the song's melody. From this point, the music box is played in almost every episode.
* In ''Manga/MidoriDays'', Midori has a music box on her bedside table where her real body is laying. Its melody is heard once or twice coming from the box itself when her mother opens it, but the rest of the time the melody is used in Midori's flashbacks.
* Candy White Andree from ''Manga/CandyCandy'' gets one from her friend Alistair, nicknamed "the Box of Happiness". [[spoiler:It becomes a TragicKeepsake when Alistair dies in UsefulNotes/WorldWarI.]]
* The ''VisualNovel/SteinsGate'' anime has a heartbreaking music box reprise of its main theme, Gate of Steiner, played in the later episodes as Okabe tries to restore the innocence of the lab's early days before everything went to hell. [[spoiler: More specifically, it echoes his memories of Mayuri.]]
* In ''Anime/LadyJewelpet'', Lillian finds a music box and its music makes her feel sad, but she doesn't understand why. It turns out to be because [[spoiler:Lillian was a doll, and both her and the music box belonged to Diana, who cherished them both.]]
* In ''Manga/TheRowsOfCherryTrees'', Yukiko's late father gave her one and [[DaddysGirl she]] often plays it to remember him.
* The movie adaptation of ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha'' features a TitleThemeDrop of "Innocent Starter" when Nanoha resolves to become friends with Fate. It's rather appropriate if one is familiar with the song's lyrics.
* This is featured in ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers''. Russia's character song starts out with a slightly eerie music box melody.
* When alone, Suitengu of ''Anime/SpeedGrapher'' obsessively plays a music box with a melancholic tune and thinks about his past. This ultimately leads to a flashback indicating [[TragicKeepsake this is the only possession left from his happy childhood]], [[DarkAndTroubledPast which was destroyed]] by [[LoanShark loan sharks]]. Making things interesting, Saiga, the hero, independently whistles the same tune, foreshadowing the fact there's a connection between himself and Suitengu.
* In ''Anime/FullMoon'', Mitsuki learns of a song her father's band once performed called "Eternal Snow"[[note]] the show's 3rd ending theme[[/note]]. When she learns more about her mom and dad, among other things she finds a music box that plays the song's melody. From this point, the music box is played in almost every episode.
* In ''Manga/MidoriDays'', Midori has a music box on her bedside table where her real body is laying. Its melody is heard once or twice coming from the box itself when her mother opens it, but the rest of the time the melody is used in Midori's flashbacks.
* Candy White Andree from ''Manga/CandyCandy'' gets one from her friend Alistair, nicknamed "the Box of Happiness". [[spoiler:It becomes a TragicKeepsake when Alistair dies in UsefulNotes/WorldWarI.]]
* The ''VisualNovel/SteinsGate'' anime has a heartbreaking music box reprise of its main theme, Gate of Steiner, played in the later episodes as Okabe tries to restore the innocence of the lab's early days before everything went to hell. [[spoiler: More specifically, it echoes his memories of Mayuri.]]
* In ''Anime/LadyJewelpet'', Lillian finds a music box and its music makes her feel sad, but she doesn't understand why. It turns out to be because [[spoiler:Lillian was a doll, and both her and the music box belonged to Diana, who cherished them both.]]
* In ''Manga/TheRowsOfCherryTrees'', Yukiko's late father gave her one and [[DaddysGirl she]] often plays it to remember him.
* The movie adaptation of ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha'' features a TitleThemeDrop of "Innocent Starter" when Nanoha resolves to become friends with Fate. It's rather appropriate if one is familiar with the song's lyrics.
* ''Manga/TheRowsOfCherryTrees'': Yukiko's late father gave her one and [[DaddysGirl she]] often plays it to remember him.
* ''Manga/SailorMoon''; there's a music box locket in the first season of the anime. This was inspired by a similarly shaped watch from the manga.
* ''Anime/{{Simoun}}'': Aaeru has a [[RuleOfCool wind-powered]] music box given to her by her grandfather. The music it plays is actually a flashback on a cultural scale, though, as "The Door To A New World" is a song passed down from the earliest generations of Simoun sibyllae.
* ''Anime/SpeedGrapher'': When alone, Suitengu obsessively plays a music box with a melancholic tune and thinks about his past. This ultimately leads to a flashback indicating [[TragicKeepsake this is the only possession left from his happy childhood]], [[DarkAndTroubledPast which was destroyed]] by [[LoanShark loan sharks]]. Making things interesting, Saiga, the hero, independently whistles the same tune, foreshadowing the fact there's a connection between himself and Suitengu.
* The ''VisualNovel/SteinsGate'' anime has a heartbreaking music box reprise of its main theme, Gate of Steiner, played in the later episodes as Okabe tries to restore the innocence of the lab's early days before everything went to hell. [[spoiler: More specifically, it echoes his memories of Mayuri.]]
* ''Anime/TheVisionOfEscaflowne'' has a nostalgic music box, Millerna has a flashback montage to it.
* ''Manga/SailorMoon''; there's a music box locket in the first season of the anime. This was inspired by a similarly shaped watch from the manga.
* ''Anime/{{Simoun}}'': Aaeru has a [[RuleOfCool wind-powered]] music box given to her by her grandfather. The music it plays is actually a flashback on a cultural scale, though, as "The Door To A New World" is a song passed down from the earliest generations of Simoun sibyllae.
* ''Anime/SpeedGrapher'': When alone, Suitengu obsessively plays a music box with a melancholic tune and thinks about his past. This ultimately leads to a flashback indicating [[TragicKeepsake this is the only possession left from his happy childhood]], [[DarkAndTroubledPast which was destroyed]] by [[LoanShark loan sharks]]. Making things interesting, Saiga, the hero, independently whistles the same tune, foreshadowing the fact there's a connection between himself and Suitengu.
* The ''VisualNovel/SteinsGate'' anime has a heartbreaking music box reprise of its main theme, Gate of Steiner, played in the later episodes as Okabe tries to restore the innocence of the lab's early days before everything went to hell. [[spoiler: More specifically, it echoes his memories of Mayuri.]]
* ''Anime/TheVisionOfEscaflowne'' has a nostalgic music box, Millerna has a flashback montage to it.
* ''Film/BatmanAndRobin'': Mister Freeze has turned an alarm clock, a glass jar, and an ice sculpture of his wife into an impromptu music box. He stares intently at it turn, but can only manage a single tear (that quickly freezes and sublimates given his [[IncrediblyLamePun icy]] demeanor).
* ''Film/TheBlueLagoon'' - film version, has a music box that plays Chopin's Nocturne Op. 9, #2 in E flat major. Emmeline says "That's Chopin! I can play it on the piano." It's used by the kids growing up as a connection with/nostalgic reminder of their life before the island. Sometimes they dance to it. None of this is in the book.
* ''Film/CriesAndWhispers'': A music box is heard when Maria is wistfully contemplating her old dollhouse and the portrait of her dead mother.
* ''Film/TheBlueLagoon'' - film version, has a music box that plays Chopin's Nocturne Op. 9, #2 in E flat major. Emmeline says "That's Chopin! I can play it on the piano." It's used by the kids growing up as a connection with/nostalgic reminder of their life before the island. Sometimes they dance to it. None of this is in the book.
* ''Film/CriesAndWhispers'': A music box is heard when Maria is wistfully contemplating her old dollhouse and the portrait of her dead mother.
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* ''Film/BatmanAndRobin.'' Mister Freeze has turned an alarm clock, a glass jar, and an ice sculpture of his wife into an impromptu music box. He stares intently at it turn, but can only manage a single tear (that quickly freezes and sublimates given his [[IncrediblyLamePun icy]] demeanor).
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* ''Film/TheBlueLagoon'' - film version, has a music box that plays Chopin's Nocturne Op. 9, #2 in E flat major. Emmeline says "That's Chopin! I can play it on the piano." It's used by the kids growing up as a connection with/nostalgic reminder of their life before the island. Sometimes they dance to it. None of this is in the book.
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* On ''Series/{{Lost}}'', Rousseau has a broken music box that Sayid fixes for her. It reminds her of her husband and lost child after she's been alone on the island for sixteen years.
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* On ''Series/{{Lost}}'', ''Series/{{Lost}}'': Rousseau has a broken music box that Sayid fixes for her. It reminds her of her husband and lost child after she's been alone on the island for sixteen years.
* The track [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tjeo-JpBdnI Ewige Wiederkunft]] from ''VisualNovel/DiesIrae'' features a lonely music box and is usually reserved for scenes of reminiscence or sadness.
* ''VisualNovel/{{Doukyusei}}'' uses one such track, titled "Graduation", as its main menu music. This is quite fitting, since ''Dōkyūsei'' is fundamentally a story that plays on nostalgia for summer vacations back in one's youth, as well as the game itself being a remake of a classic game that many players would probably have fond memories of.
* ''VisualNovel/{{Doukyusei}}'' uses one such track, titled "Graduation", as its main menu music. This is quite fitting, since ''Dōkyūsei'' is fundamentally a story that plays on nostalgia for summer vacations back in one's youth, as well as the game itself being a remake of a classic game that many players would probably have fond memories of.
* In ''VisualNovel/KatawaShoujo'', this is the present you get for Lilly. [[spoiler:It and its tune become a two-frame ChekhovsGun in Lilly's Good End]].
* The ''VisualNovel/MuvLuv'' series of visual novels has ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnfMvYIHJt8 A World To Protect]]'', a rearrangement of the main theme. It first plays in ''Unlimited'' when [[spoiler:Takeru realizes that his memories of his home world and Sumika are fading due to him "going native"]], it then plays in ''Alternative'' when [[spoiler:Takeru, suffering from PTSD, breaks down and cries in Marimo's lap while the latter comforts him.]]
* ''VisualNovel/SymphonicRain'' has several music box versions of the opening and ending theme playing during especially poignant moments.
* The ''VisualNovel/MuvLuv'' series of visual novels has ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnfMvYIHJt8 A World To Protect]]'', a rearrangement of the main theme. It first plays in ''Unlimited'' when [[spoiler:Takeru realizes that his memories of his home world and Sumika are fading due to him "going native"]], it then plays in ''Alternative'' when [[spoiler:Takeru, suffering from PTSD, breaks down and cries in Marimo's lap while the latter comforts him.]]
* ''VisualNovel/SymphonicRain'' has several music box versions of the opening and ending theme playing during especially poignant moments.
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* ''VisualNovel/SymphonicRain'' has several music box versions of the opening and ending theme playing during especially poignant moments.
* The ''VisualNovel/MuvLuv'' series of visual novels has ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnfMvYIHJt8 A World To Protect]]'', a rearrangement of the main theme. It first plays in ''Unlimited'' when [[spoiler:Takeru realizes that his memories of his home world and Sumika are fading due to him "going native"]], it then plays in ''Alternative'' when [[spoiler:Takeru, suffering from PTSD, breaks down and cries in Marimo's lap while the latter comforts him.]]
* The track [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tjeo-JpBdnI Ewige Wiederkunft]] from ''VisualNovel/DiesIrae'' features a lonely music box and is usually reserved for scenes of reminiscence or sadness.
* In ''VisualNovel/KatawaShoujo'', this is the present you get for Lilly. [[spoiler:It and its tune become a two-frame ChekhovsGun in Lilly's Good End]].
* ''VisualNovel/{{Doukyusei}}'' uses one such track, titled "Graduation", as its main menu music. This is quite fitting, since ''Dōkyūsei'' is fundamentally a story that plays on nostalgia for summer vacations back in one's youth, as well as the game itself being a remake of a classic game that many players would probably have fond memories of.
* The ''VisualNovel/MuvLuv'' series of visual novels has ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnfMvYIHJt8 A World To Protect]]'', a rearrangement of the main theme. It first plays in ''Unlimited'' when [[spoiler:Takeru realizes that his memories of his home world and Sumika are fading due to him "going native"]], it then plays in ''Alternative'' when [[spoiler:Takeru, suffering from PTSD, breaks down and cries in Marimo's lap while the latter comforts him.]]
* The track [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tjeo-JpBdnI Ewige Wiederkunft]] from ''VisualNovel/DiesIrae'' features a lonely music box and is usually reserved for scenes of reminiscence or sadness.
* In ''VisualNovel/KatawaShoujo'', this is the present you get for Lilly. [[spoiler:It and its tune become a two-frame ChekhovsGun in Lilly's Good End]].
* ''VisualNovel/{{Doukyusei}}'' uses one such track, titled "Graduation", as its main menu music. This is quite fitting, since ''Dōkyūsei'' is fundamentally a story that plays on nostalgia for summer vacations back in one's youth, as well as the game itself being a remake of a classic game that many players would probably have fond memories of.
* {{Invoked|Trope}} in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS2E19LisasSubstitute Lisa's Substitute]]" when Homer opens a music box to provide background music while talking to Lisa about loss.
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* {{Invoked|Trope}} in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS2E19LisasSubstitute Lisa's Substitute]]" when Homer opens a music box to provide background music while talking to Lisa about loss.
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* ''VideoGame/{{ULTRAKILL}}'' plays a music box version of "[[https://youtu.be/dYpYQHb-ZKg?t=4560 The Fire is Gone]]" whenever [[PlayerCharacter V1]] reads a Testament at the end of a SecretLevel.
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* ''VideoGame/{{ULTRAKILL}}'' plays a music box version of "[[https://youtu.be/dYpYQHb-ZKg?t=4560 The Fire is Gone]]" whenever [[PlayerCharacter V1]] reads a Testament at the end of a SecretLevel. It serves to outline the tragedy of [[spoiler:God himself ruining creation by creating Hell in an impulsive, hasty decision after failures to create a man without free will and being unable to fix it]].
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* In ''VideoGame/ProfessorLaytonAndTheDiabolicalBox'', one of these plays during TheReveal. In this case, the music isn't the symbolic part, it's [[spoiler:the Elysian Box itself, which finally fulfills its original purpose of carrying a message from Anton to Sophia and back. Of course, it's less on the nostalgia and more on the what could've been.]] The music box track, Iris, is used a few minutes later in orchestrated form for the end credits.
** In ''VideoGame/ProfessorLaytonAndTheMiracleMask'', another music box tune plays when [[spoiler: Henry remembers the time when he and Randall first became friends]].
** In ''VideoGame/ProfessorLaytonAndTheMiracleMask'', another music box tune plays when [[spoiler: Henry remembers the time when he and Randall first became friends]].
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* ''Franchise/ProfessorLayton'':
** In ''VideoGame/ProfessorLaytonAndTheDiabolicalBox'', one of these plays during TheReveal. In this case, the music isn't the symbolic part, it's [[spoiler:the Elysian Box itself, which finally fulfills its original purpose of carrying a message from Anton to Sophia and back. Of course, it's less on the nostalgia and more on the what could've been.]] The music box track, Iris, is used a few minutes later in orchestrated form for the end credits.
** In ''VideoGame/ProfessorLaytonAndTheMiracleMask'',another a music box tune plays when [[spoiler: Henry [[spoiler:Henry remembers the time when he and Randall first became friends]].
** In ''VideoGame/ProfessorLaytonAndTheDiabolicalBox'', one of these plays during TheReveal. In this case, the music isn't the symbolic part, it's [[spoiler:the Elysian Box itself, which finally fulfills its original purpose of carrying a message from Anton to Sophia and back. Of course, it's less on the nostalgia and more on the what could've been.]] The music box track, Iris, is used a few minutes later in orchestrated form for the end credits.
** In ''VideoGame/ProfessorLaytonAndTheMiracleMask'',
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* A music box version of N's {{Leitmotif}} plays in ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite'' when you discover his bedroom/playroom in Plasma Castle. It doubles as an OminousMusicBoxTune.
** N's theme itself was allegedly based on the idea of a music box, reflecting his nature as an ManChild. It doubles as an OminousMusicBoxTune.
** N's theme itself was allegedly based on the idea of a music box, reflecting his nature as an ManChild. It doubles as an OminousMusicBoxTune.
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* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'':
** A music box version of N's {{Leitmotif}} plays in ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite'' when you discover his bedroom/playroom in PlasmaCastle. It doubles as an OminousMusicBoxTune.
** N's theme itself was allegedly based on the idea of a music box, reflecting his nature as an ManChild.Castle. It doubles as an OminousMusicBoxTune. N's theme itself was allegedly based on the idea of a music box, reflecting his nature as an ManChild. It doubles as an OminousMusicBoxTune.
** A music box version of N's {{Leitmotif}} plays in ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite'' when you discover his bedroom/playroom in Plasma
** N's theme itself was allegedly based on the idea of a music box, reflecting his nature as an ManChild.
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* A music box version of the smooth jazz song featured in one scene appears in ''Anime/GhostInTheShell 2: Innocence''.
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* A music box version of the smooth jazz song featured in one scene appears in ''Anime/GhostInTheShell ''[[Anime/GhostInTheShell1995 Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence''.Innocence]]''.
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* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': One of the few items that Lestat de Lioncourt had brought over from France is an ornate music box which carries a lot of sentimental value for him. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptQLRbpN3r0 The tune it plays]] was written by Lestat and it's dedicated to a young man he once loved.
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* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': One of the few items that Lestat de Lioncourt had brought over from France is an ornate music box which carries a lot of sentimental value for him. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptQLRbpN3r0 The tune it plays]] was written by Lestat and it's dedicated to a young man he once loved.his FirstLove Nicolas.
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* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': One of the few items that Lestat de Lioncourt had brought over from France is an ornate music box which carries a lot of sentimental value for him. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptQLRbpN3r0 The tune it plays]] was written by Lestat and it's dedicated to a young man he once loved.
-->'''Lestat''': I composed it for a young violinist I once knew, a boy of infinite beauty and sensitivity.
-->'''Lestat''': I composed it for a young violinist I once knew, a boy of infinite beauty and sensitivity.
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* The Total Results screen after the credits of ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry1'' has a pretty nostalgic music box version of "Pillow Talk" playing in the background.
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* The Total Results screen after the credits of ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry1'' has a pretty nostalgic music box version of Eva's [[{{Leitmotif}} theme]], titled "Pillow Talk" Talk", playing in the background.
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* The final results screen after the credits of ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry1'' has one of these playing, and it's very pretty.
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* The final results Total Results screen after the credits of ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry1'' has one a pretty nostalgic music box version of these playing, and it's very pretty."Pillow Talk" playing in the background.
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* ''VisualNovel/{{Doukyusei}}'' uses one such track, titled "Graduation", as its main menu music. This is quite fitting, since ''Dōkyūsei'' is fundamentally a story that plays on nostalgia for summer vacations back in one's youth, as well as the game itself being a remake of a classic game that many players would probably have fond memories of.
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* ''VideoGame/EarthBound'' - The final rendition of the Eight Melodies, just before [[spoiler:entering Magicant]].
** In the prequel, you learn the first part of the game's version of the Eight Melodies from a music box that was in the possessed doll you just fought. Also, the ending tune starts and ends with a music box rendition of the Eight Melodies.
** In the prequel, you learn the first part of the game's version of the Eight Melodies from a music box that was in the possessed doll you just fought. Also, the ending tune starts and ends with a music box rendition of the Eight Melodies.
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* ''VideoGame/EarthBound'' - ''VideoGame/EarthBound'': The final rendition of the Eight Melodies, just before [[spoiler:entering Magicant]].
** In the prequel, you * ''VideoGame/EarthBoundBeginnings'': You learn the first part of the game's version of the Eight Melodies from a music box that was in the possessed doll you just fought. Also, the ending tune starts and ends with a music box rendition of the Eight Melodies.
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* ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld2YoshisIsland'' has an opening theme that sounds as though it is being played on a music box (it even slows down at one point, and has to be rewound). This theme reappears in ''Yoshi's Island DS,'' and is the best song on the soundtrack, despite being played in a different key.
* ''VideoGame/PaperMario'' features this in both ''The Thousand-Year Door'' and ''VideoGame/SuperPaperMario'' with specifically designated "Memory" themes that used a music-box-like effect when a particularly sad event was happening.
* Speaking of Mario, the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGyZwr8pIas Lumas' theme]] from ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy''. Bonus points for being played ''[[spoiler:[[SoundtrackDissonance as the universe is crushed into a supermassive black hole.]]]]''
* ''VideoGame/PaperMario'' features this in both ''The Thousand-Year Door'' and ''VideoGame/SuperPaperMario'' with specifically designated "Memory" themes that used a music-box-like effect when a particularly sad event was happening.
* Speaking of Mario, the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGyZwr8pIas Lumas' theme]] from ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy''. Bonus points for being played ''[[spoiler:[[SoundtrackDissonance as the universe is crushed into a supermassive black hole.]]]]''
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* ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld2YoshisIsland'' has an opening theme that sounds as though it is being played on a music box (it even slows down at one point, and has to be rewound). This theme reappears in ''Yoshi's Island DS,'' and is the best song on the soundtrack, despite being played in a different key.
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* ''VideoGame/PaperMario'' features this in both''The Thousand-Year Door'' ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor'' and ''VideoGame/SuperPaperMario'' with specifically designated "Memory" themes that used a music-box-like effect when a particularly sad event was happening.
*Speaking of Mario, the The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGyZwr8pIas Lumas' theme]] from ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy''. Bonus points for being played ''[[spoiler:[[SoundtrackDissonance as the universe is crushed into a supermassive black hole.]]]]''
* ''VideoGame/PaperMario'' features this in both
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** Same with ''VideoGame/SuperMarioRPG''.
** All four ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigi'' games as well, although this was left out from the American releases of the first two.
** All four ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigi'' games as well, although this was left out from the American releases of the first two.
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-->--"Music Box Blues," '''Music/TransSiberianOrchestra'''
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->''"The music box is broken, or is it? It starts to play, and a haunting tune fills the air..."''
-->-- '''Spike Spiegel''', ''Anime/CowboyBebop''
-->-- '''Spike Spiegel''', ''Anime/CowboyBebop''
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->''The candle in the window continues to burn,''
->''But I know they're just memories''
->''Like Christmas Past and
-->-- '''Spike Spiegel''', ''Anime/CowboyBebop''
-->--"Music Box Blues," '''Music/TransSiberianOrchestra'''
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* The final results screen after the credits of VideoGame/DevilMayCry has one of these playing, and it's very pretty.
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* The final results screen after the credits of VideoGame/DevilMayCry ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry1'' has one of these playing, and it's very pretty.
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* When alone, Suitengu of ''Anime/SpeedGrapher'' obsessively plays a music box with a melancholic tune and thinks about his past. This ultimately leads to a flashback indicating [[TragicKeepsake this is the only possession left from his happy childhood]], [[DakrAndTroubledPast which was destroyed]] by [[LoanShark loan sharks]]. Making things interesting, Saiga, the hero, independently whistles the same tune, foreshadowing the fact there's a connection between himself and Suitengu.
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* When alone, Suitengu of ''Anime/SpeedGrapher'' obsessively plays a music box with a melancholic tune and thinks about his past. This ultimately leads to a flashback indicating [[TragicKeepsake this is the only possession left from his happy childhood]], [[DakrAndTroubledPast [[DarkAndTroubledPast which was destroyed]] by [[LoanShark loan sharks]]. Making things interesting, Saiga, the hero, independently whistles the same tune, foreshadowing the fact there's a connection between himself and Suitengu.
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* {{Theatre/Anastasia}}, like the movie it's adapted from, features the OrphansPlotTrinket music box given to the title character as a child; [[AdaptationExpansion the entire score was expanded or re-written to make the score more fitting for a fully fledged stage musical]] but not only did the music box's theme stay the same, it became a {{Leitmotif}} that reoccurred several times and in several songs throughout the show.
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* {{Theatre/Anastasia}}, like the movie it's adapted from, features the OrphansPlotTrinket music box given to the title character as a child; [[AdaptationExpansion the entire score was expanded or re-written to make the score more fitting for a fully fledged fully-fledged stage musical]] but not only did the music box's theme stay the same, it became a {{Leitmotif}} that reoccurred several times and in several songs throughout the show.
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** ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'''s nostalgic theme is eventually expanded upon in at least one of the endings, in a song called "To Good Friends" - it starts off identically, but eventually segues into a fully-orchestrated arrangement of the same theme, and it is beautiful.
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** ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'''s nostalgic theme is eventually expanded upon in at least one of the endings, in a song called "To Good Friends" - it starts off identically, identically but eventually segues into a fully-orchestrated arrangement of the same theme, and it is beautiful.
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* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII'' - The Laguna flashbacks involving Ellone and her daughter.
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* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII'' - The Laguna flashbacks involving Ellone Raine and her daughter.daughter, Ellone.
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* ''VideoGame/{{ULTRAKILL}}'' plays a music box version of "[[https://youtu.be/dYpYQHb-ZKg?t=4560 The Fire is Gone]]" whenever [[PlayerCharacter V1]] reads a Testament at the end of a SecretLevel.
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* This is featured in ''Webcomic/AxisPowersHetalia''. Russia's character song starts out with a slightly eerie music box melody.
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* This is featured in ''Webcomic/AxisPowersHetalia''.''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers''. Russia's character song starts out with a slightly eerie music box melody.
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The opposite of OminousMusicBoxTune when the tune sounds much more sinister...
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The opposite of OminousMusicBoxTune when the tune sounds much more sinister...though the two dovetail into each other quite often.
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* In the 1978 movie ''Anime/RingingBell'', Chirin finishes crying over his mother's death, he starts to angrily march out of the sheep stable and heads to the mountain that Woe resides. A [[DarkReprise music box variation of the film's theme song is heard complete with military style drums]] while Chirin is marching out of the stable.
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* In ''VisualNovel/KatawaShoujo'', this is the present you get for Lilly. [[spoiler:It and its tune become a two-frame ChekhovsGun in Lilly's Good End]].
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*** A much more tear-jerking music box is played during [[spoiler:Emperor Jillius' DisneyDeath.]]
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* {{Invoked|Trope}} in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS2E19LisasSubstitute Lisa's Substitute]]" when Homer opens a music box to provide background music while talking to Lisa about loss.