History Main / TheDayTheMusicLied

* In ''Manga/CromartieHighSchool'', "[[NoNameGiven Fred]][[{{Queen}} die]]"'s leitmotif is [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_skhTIY_Ik this song]], usually played up to the 3rd or 4th drum roll whenever he suddenly appears. Once, he startled someone, who shut the door on him, cutting off the music before the second bar was finished.

* Crocomire in ''Super {{Metroid}}''. After it falls into an acid bath which dissolves its flesh, its skeleton crashes through the wall and the boss music starts up again... then the skeleton collapses.

* ''Machinima/RedVsBlue:'' Near the end of Episode 10 of Season 11, the Blood Gulch Gang is about to deteriorate into a violent melee, when a lone gun shot is heard. The theme of Agent Tex, BadAss to the extreme, begins to play...until the shooter is revealed to be [[PinkIsFeminine Donut]].

** In [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=005596 the 4/2/11 update]], where [[spoiler: John and Rose square off against their parents' killer, a suitably epic remix of Chorale starts up, a big Round 1 appears at the top of the screen - and then John is stabbed through the chest, at which point the music '''stops'''.]][[note]]Of course, this example could also count as a MusicalSpoiler. Chorale is one of the songs related to Rose (although it was originally Jaspersprite's {{Leitmotif}}), [[spoiler: and she continues the battle after John falls.]][[/note]]
** [s]: Wake is another example. After the first half of the flash depicting [[spoiler: Aradia's Resurrection]], the flash skips ahead about an hour, and tracks the confrontation between [[spoiler: Vriska]] and [[spoiler: Tavros]]. The music rises up... [[spoiler: Only for Vriskas expression to change into a sneer, as she slaps Tavros in the face, grabs, him, and impales him on his own lance.]] The Music promptly stops, only to return a second later as the corpse falls down into the dark, while [[spoiler: [[CrossesTheLineTwice Vriska waves goodbye to him.]]]]

* During the torture scene in ''[[Film/SharkysMachine'' (1981) there's a HopeSpot when Sharky reaches for the backup gun he carries in an ankle holster. Tense music starts playing...only for the music to stop abruptly when the holster is revealed to be empty.

* During the torture scene in ''Sharky's Machine'' (1981) there's a HopeSpot when Sharky reaches for the backup gun he carries in an ankle holster. Tense music starts playing...only for the music to stop abruptly when the holster is revealed to be empty.

* ''WesternAnimation/Cars3'': When Jackson outruns Lightning, he struggles to catch up to him as the background music swells dramatically...then his back tires explode, causing him to lose control and crash as the music stops, before resuming on an ominous chord as the ambulances surround him.

* Team Four Star's ''WebVideo/DragonBallAbridged'', when Yamcha arrives to fight the Saiyans. He gives his fellow warriors a roguish grin, heroic music begins to swell in the background, he starts his {{rousing speech}}, and "[[ActionBomb SKREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!]]" ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ui0mRLYZwYc&feature=related#t=6m10s BOOM]]''.

* Played rather humourously in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OWSC6IkG0g&t=4m13s this]] scene from ''Anime/{{Grenadier}}'', which pits sweet-as-a-nut TechnicalPacifist Rushuna against an entire gang of bounty hunters. {{Badass}} killing machine? Uh... No, not exactly.

** The first highly memorable time happens when Ichigo first encounters Aizen - he got through the windup and rushes in for the attack, swinging his blade at the height of the music - and both are abruptly stopped by Aizen with a single finger.
** Five years later, after many a ShounenUpgrade, Ichigo finally turns the tables on him - stopping first his sword [[CallBack in nearly the same fashion]] and then his massively powerful Black Coffin spell, both times interrupting Aizen's theme song on the height of it's [[OminousLatinChanting Ominous English Chanting]].

** Episode 3, to some extent: Viral launches a volley of missiles at the Gurren Lagann and the battle music immediately goes silent even though the GL is barely damaged ([[spoiler:it was a distraction for Viral to get lost]]).

** A more comic example is found the uncensored version of [[HotSpringsEpisode Episode 6]], when Simon and Kamina are trying to peak at the girls. Simon ends up launched up far enough to see over the wall, starting up a piece of triumphant music used several times throughout the early part of the series... until he falls about three second later, cutting the music off.

* In the anime adaptation of ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventure'' Stardust Crusaders, Kakyoin fights DIO in one of the last episodes. Having trapped DIO with a special barrier, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFjE5A4UAJI Noble Pope]] starts to play, being an almost signature theme of Kakyoin. He launches a 20-meter radius emerald splash attack against DIO, but just then, the music abruptly stops as DIO [[CallingYourAttacks shouts out "The World!"]]. [[spoiler: All of the surrounding barrier is then broken, and Kakyoin is fatally blown away before anyone can understand what happened.]]

* Is sometimes [[InvokedTrope invoked]] when a heel is in the ring either mocking an absent babyface or ranting about [[NothingCanStopUsNow his/her supposed invincibility]]. In the middle of the segment, the face's distinctive music will hit and the heel will affect an OhCrap expression...only to start laughing when the supposed entrance of the face is merely 1) a fake-out orchestrated by the heel or 2) one of the heel's minions dressing up as the face for mockery. (See {{Edge}} and {{Lita}}'s wedding for an example of the former and Michelle [=McCool=] calling Mickie James a fat "piggie" for the latter.)

* A variation occurs in ''WesternAnimation/CodeLyoko'' episode "[[CodeLyokoS4E2 Double Take]]". [[spoiler:When the gang notices "Jeremie" is acting strange and accurately conclude he's a specter, Odd attacks it on the assumption XANA is behind it. When the specter fights him off, XANA's theme swells up as the gang prepare for battle... And then the real Jeremie calls to reveal he created his doppelganger himself.]]

* In pretty much every ''{{Popeye}}'' cartoon, Popeye will [[PowerUpFood eat spinach for some instant muscle power]], with an [[ThemeMusicPowerUp accompanying Theme Song]]. However, the ThemeTune is abruptly interrupted when the can of spinach is taken away somehow (such as by an explosion, or some moving machinery). In one cartoon (''How Green Is My Spinach''), Popeye ate some other assorted vegetables but failed to get the desired effect (since DangerouslyGenreSavvy Bluto invented a formula the wiped out the world's spinach), and in another (''A Date To Skate''), Popeye ''just plain forgot it.''

** ''VideoGame/KirbysReturnToDreamLand does it again. [[spoiler:You're about to fight the fifth boss, but the stage clear music is playing. What? No boss at all? ...But when you thought that the final part of the Lor Starcutter is for the taking, it suddenly goes away from you and said fifth boss reveals itself to be Grand Doomer, ''truly'' beginning the boss battle.]]

* ''VideoGame/KirbysEpicYarn'' has a moment like this at the end; [[spoiler:Kirby and Prince Fluff have defeated Yin-Yarn, and Magic Yarn appears afterwards and they start dancing to cheerful victory dance music. Then, just before they finish their dance, the music stops as his knitting needles come alive, enlarge themselves, and use the Magic Yarn to bring him BackFromTheDead, and that's where we cue some OhCrap faces from the two. Talk about your VictoryFakeout...]]
** ''VideoGame/KirbysReturnToDreamLand does it again. [[spoiler:You're about to fight the fifth boss, but the stage clear music is playing. What? No boss at all? ...But when you thought that the final part of the Lor Starcutter is for the taking, it suddenly flies away from you and said fifth boss reveals itself to be Grand Doomer, ''truly'' beginning the boss battle.]]

** Five years later, after many a ShounenUpgrade, Ichigo finally turns the tables on him - stopping first his sword [[CallBack in nearly the same fashion]] and then his massively powerful Black Coffin spell, both times interrupting Aizen's theme song on the height of it's OminousLatinChanting.