Dark Reprise / Live-Action Films

• Jaime and Landon from A Walk to Remember have a Leitmotif specific to them. Among these is "The Kiss" which is played on guitar. It's dark reprise is "Jaime in the Hospital" where the guitar is counterpointed by a sad violin.
• Across the Universe: "I Want You" is an interesting case, where it starts as a dark song about war conscription, then has a "light reprise" (not quite triumphant) as Sadie and Jojo share a romantic moment. It then has another reprise, as Prudence sings the song, this time about her unrequited love for Sadie. So the third time the song is sung, it is a Dark Reprise of the second time the song is sung, while that second time is a light reprise of the original, dark song. Also is almost a Sarcastic Echo, since Prudence's lines almost make it a duet with Sadie's; however, the tone is more heartbreaking than sarcastic.
• Ah Boys to Men has a dark rendition to the marching song "Training to be Soldiers" used in the prologue where a lone female singer sings it solemnly as Singapore is invaded though it turns out to be part of a video game in an internet cafe. Another version is used in real National Service to torment Aloysius for running away from a brawl in a restaurant.
• Baby Driver has an inversion that segues into a straight example. Midway through the film, after what he believes was his One Last Job, Baby dances his way out of a junkyard while listening to "Easy" by Lionel Richie. At the end of the film, after his real One Last Job, Baby and Debora listen to a tape of Baby's mother performing a more quiet, sombre rendition of "Easy" as they drive away to their new life... only to run straight into a police roadblock. The song keeps playing as a full-on Dark Reprise as Baby allows himself to be arrested to spare Debora from jail, and is sentenced to a lengthy prison spell.
• Back to the Future Part II: The main title is a mildly dark reprise of the first movie's theme music. It's played on lower instruments and, while still sounding triumphant, there is a certain foreboding to it.
• Barbie (2023): Played for Laughs. Barbie is introduced cheerily going about her morning while "Pink" by Lizzo plays, the lyrics talking about how perfect and happy Barbie and her life are. The next morning, after Barbie's existential crisis has begun, the same song plays with new lyrics about her "inescapable thoughts of death," all while keeping its upbeat tone.
• Tim Burton's two Batman Film Series films have some:
  • Batman (1989):
    • The film has what could more properly called a "Darker/Sarcastic Reprise," we have Danny Elfman's "Waltz to the Death." This is played as The Joker, having first revealed his clown-face to the audience, murders his former boss by shooting the old man six times from various angles. Here the music is more darkly funny than scary, though it does segue into a creepy lullaby tune played on chimes at the end of the scene. Much later, toward the end of the movie, "Waltz to the Death" is heard again as Batman stalks the Joker in the cathedral belltower, only to be ambushed by his gang while the Joker forces Vicki Vale at gunpoint to dance a waltz with him. Now the tune is less brassy than before, with a weird dreamlike quality that would be a Light Reprise if it weren't so out of character for the Joker (it's really disturbing to see a man who had previously murdered a young boy's parents while taunting in a demonic voice being portrayed as a romantic gentleman, albeit a villainous one) and if it didn't abruptly fall off toward the end into almost total silence. Even before then, the howls of rage and pain as the Joker's Mooks and Batman beat the tar out of each other do a great deal to undercut the supposedly light mood of the piece.
    • Inverted on the movie's pop soundtrack by Prince. "Batdance," his dance mix at the end of the album, takes some of the darker songs that have gone before ("The Future" most notably) and parodies them by remixing them in a goofy "deejay" style.
  • Batman Returns:
    • 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 various toy animals.
    • Another inversion occurs with "Selina Transforms." When we hear it the first time, the piece starts out tragic and just goes downhill from there, mounting to what sounds like a Hitchcock movie score on acid as Selina Kyle loses her mind. "Selina Transforms" is then heard again at the end of the movie, but now it is Lighter and Softer, an elegy of sorts now that Catwoman is apparently dead.
    • "The Finale" soundtrack in Returns can be considered a Dark Reprise to the first film's "The Finale." Both scores end with church bells being rung three times before segueing into Batman's main theme, but while in the first film, they're being rung in a triumphant tone, in keeping with the second film's Bittersweet Ending, the bells are being rung in a slower, more somber mood.
• In Bituing Walang Ningning, Lavinia sings "I Just Called To Say I Love You" by Stevie Wonder early in the film. Dorina sings the same thing later but it ends with Lavinia throwing a drink in her face.
• The Disney adaptation of Bridge to Terabithia plays the Steve Earle song, "Someday", twice. The first time it's played, Jess and Leslie are starting to have feelings for each other as they began developing a blossoming friendship, with them having a Held Gaze on each other during the song. The same song is played again near the end... after poor Leslie suffered her Death by Newbery Medal and drowned in a creek, the day after her funeral, where the same replayed song is instead dark, sombre, and with Jess in mourning.
• Parodied (or played straight, or...who the hell knows?) in The Brothers Solomon, in which the power ballad "St. Elmo's Fire" (from the film of the same name) is used first as a general triumphant anthem for the titular brothers. During their (extremely brief) falling out, a more sombre, acoustic version of the song is played.
• The 1951 version of A Christmas Carol has the old folk song "Barbara Allen" as the leitmotif of Scrooge's kindly sister Fan - when she dies giving birth to his nephew the tune is played in a dark minor key. Then played again toward movie's end, when he reconciles with his nephew, in a warm cheerful fashion (at least as much as the lyrics allow).
• The graveyard scene in A Christmas Carol: The Musical has a brief dark reprise of "A Place Called Home", as well as dark reprises of "You Mean More to Me"(when the Cratchits are mourning Tiny Tim) and "God Bless us Everyone"(sung by Grace Smythe and the ghosts of Fan and Mrs. Scrooge right before the Ghost of Christmas Future drops Scrooge into his grave, with a touch of Soundtrack Dissonance).
  • Additionally "Dancing on Your Grave" features a dark reprise of the instrumental intro of the already grim "Link by Link" as its main vocal melody, and of "Jolly Good Time" and the main melody of "Link by Link" as Scrooge's possessions are divided up, whilst "Yesterday, Tomorrow and Today" is the same tune as the warnings the Spirits sang to Scrooge earlier in the second half of "Nothing to Do with Me".
  • 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.
• One of the earliest examples of this in films occurs during the first half of Citizen Kane. As Charles Foster Kane is embarking on his political career, he brings a marching band and a line of chorus girls into his conference room to sing a very upbeat rendition of "There Is a Man, A Certain Man" to the assembled businessmen and politicians at the conference table. ("Who is this man? It's Charlie Kane! He doesn't like that 'Mister'; he likes good old 'Charlie Kane'!") Much later, after Kane has lost the race for New York governor under extremely humiliating circumstances, a much slower and even dirge-like version of "There Is a Man" is played as an instrumental tune as Kane's campaign workers clean all the confetti off of the stage.
• Con Air:
  • Poe reads his daughter Casey's letter to him which says "My Daddy is coming home on July 14. My birthday is July 14. I'm gonna see my Daddy for the first time ever on July 14". After Poe is outed as a traitor, Cyrus reads the letter again but ending it memorably with "Make a move and the bunny gets it".
  • Garland and a little girl sing "He's Got the Whole World In His Hands". He sings it again as the plane crashes into the Las Vegas strip.
• Early in Darling Lili, Lili performs "I'll Give You Three Guesses" as a cheery, wholesome song-and-dance number. Later, after discovering her jealousy of Crepe Suzette, she changes it to a striptease.
• Dead Poets Society: After Neil's death, the society's theme plays mournfully as the remaining members try to pay tribute, with Todd breaking down from trying to process this.
• Enchanted:
  • Edward and Giselle sing "I've Been Dreaming of True Love's Kiss". When they reunite, he sings this to her again but she forgets the words.
  • A sad instrumental of " That's How You Know " plays when Narissa manipulates Giselle into eating the poisoned apple.
• Godzilla vs. Kong: The soundtrack version. The film reverts Godzilla's Triumphant Reprise from Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) into a darker, slower, more foreboding theme similar to the original version, reflecting Godzilla's more hostile and antagonistic-seeming role in this film compared to how the previous film made him out to be a heroic, deity-like being.
• In Gone with the Wind, Gerald O'Hara has the song "Peg in a Low-Backed Car", which he sings every time he gallops home drunk. It's Played for Laughs until his Sanity Slippage takes effect later in the book. While singing it, he attempts to jump the gate, falls off his horse, breaks his neck and dies.
• The opening theme to the first Harry Potter movies, is dramatically skewed for the Deathly Hallows part 2 trailer.
• Holiday Heart starts with Holiday doing his drag act by lip syncing to "Baby Love" by The Supremes. A flashback shows that he sang this song at his husband's funeral. His in-laws were disgusted by his display and had him dragged off.
• The Iron Claw: "Live That Way Forever" is first performed by Mike and his band as a fun number at a grungy college party. Later, a Softer and Slower Cover of it plays as Mike commits suicide.
• The ventriloquist's song in Kung Pow! Enter the Fist.
  “We are both ventriloquists, ventriloquists, ventriloquists. We are both ventriloquists and we practice everyday. He carries the basket! He carries the paper roller! and we don’t have cysts. But there is one thing that’s for sure my friends, we are ventriloquists.”
  “We are both ventriloquists, but now we’re upside down. I swing a bit more. I swing a bit less. But we both swing if you know what we mean.”
• "Gong Jin'ou", the national anthem of the Qing Dynasty, is sung formally in The Last Emperor, then gets sadly reprised one last time before the Qing abdicate.
• Last Night in Soho: Cilla Black's "You're My World" features in a glorifying context during Ellie's first vision of Sandie, but it returns in a haunting context as Sandie/Miss Collins attempts to kill Ellie in the climax. Sandie's rendition of the song as she stalks with a knife colors the loving lyrics as an obsessive Murder Ballad ("you're every breath I take"), while the violin from the song now sounds more like full-blown "Psycho" Strings. The song shifts back into Cilla's rendition, but remains dark due to being ironically and tragically joyous against the struggle and the full picture of Sandie's life.
• One of the new written songs for The Little Mermaid (2023) is a melancholic reprise of "Part of Your World", which plays as Ariel laments that she has nowhere to go after finding out about Eric's engagement with Vanessa, who's actually Ursula in disguise, and has tricked him with Ariel's stolen voice.
• Inverted in Logan. "Old Man Logan" (a bleak, depressing western-type track) plays at the beginning, while we see the muted agony he lives through day by day (As he's pulling out his stuck claw with his bare hands, while hungover and covered in fresh wounds). However, at the very end, when he finally dies, having saved the mutant kids, with his daughter holding his hand we hear the same music start, only to turn into the sweet, emotional reprise "Don't Be What They Made You".
• In Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, we see Gollum singing joyfully while catching fishes in a mostly comical scene. However, at the start of The Return of the King we see a flashback of how he became what he is, and the song echoes in the background as he sinks his rotting teeth into a raw, live fish, and the song emphasises how degenerate, wretched creature he became under the Ring's power.
  ♫ The rock and pool
  Is nice and cool,
  So juicy-sweet!
  Our only wish,
  To catch a fish,
  So juicy-sweet! ♫
• Marvel Cinematic Universe:
  • The trailer for Avengers: Age of Ultron uses a slow, nightmarish version of "I've Got No Strings" from Pinocchio. Post Villainous Breakdown Ultron is actually singing this in bits and pieces, in the Quinjet.
  • The closing credits of Avengers: Infinity War (which are also the first in the MCU to completely avert the Creative Closing Credits) are set to a sombre orchestral piece, which ends with the film's title card scattering into dust over a quiet piano-rendition of the normally epic and bombastic Avengers-theme that accompanied the title cards of the previous two films.
  • The triumphant "Wakanda" from Black Panther (2018) gets a of mournful rendition in "Killmonger vs.T'Chaka" the moment that Killmonger kills Zuri and takes advantage of T'Chaka's rage afterwards to seemingly kill him and mixes parts of "Killmonger" and "Ancestrial Plane" for his taking of the throne. Then it gets a bittersweet reprise when T'Challa kills Killmonger in "The King's Sunset"
• In Mary Poppins, an already dark song gets an even darker reprise. "Feed the Birds" is first sung by Mary to the Children, and later played in an orchestral version as Mr. Banks heads off to be fired. The reprise continues relatively toned down as Banks walks alone through the London streets until he reaches St. Paul's... and its steps are completely barren, of birds and bird woman alike. At this point the orchestra swells to its full tearful majesty as Mr. Banks looks skyward, forlorn and desperate.
  • Earlier, after Mr. Banks sings a self-pitying song about said firing (itself a Dark Reprise of "The Life I Lead", Mr. Banks' theme), Bert (Bert!) gives him a Reason You Suck Song by both echoing "The Life I Lead" and reprising "A Spoonful of Sugar" into a song about Banks' neglect of his children for his work. However, when it reaches "A Spoonful of Sugar" it becomes briefly uplifting again, as Banks realises what is truly important to him.
• The trailer for Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation features a menacing version of "Ready or Not" by the former hip-hop group The Fugees.
• In the soundtrack to the Kenneth Branagh movie of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing (1993), the melody of the wedding march at Hero's first, doomed wedding reappears (in minor key) as her dirge when she is believed dead. By contrast, no music is played at the second wedding (during which the audience knows that the bride is Hero, alive and well, but her groom believes her dead and thinks he is marrying her cousin) until the moment she lifts her veil. This is very effective in setting the mood for all three scenes.
• While not exactly a reprise, The Muppet Christmas Carol had a sad little echo of 'Bless Us All', sung by Tiny Tim about how he and his family have so much to be grateful for, played as it pans over his crutch after his death with his family in mourning. It also contains a Light Reprise of 'When Love Is Gone' sung while Scrooge is left by his fiance sung at the end as 'The Love We Found' after he changes his ways. Sadly, the first song was cut from the theatrical release (and only reinstated on some video releases), meaning that the finale is less poignant.
• Veda sings "Do Wah Diddy Diddy" by Manfred Mann a couple of times on My Girl. She sings it again frantically when she gets trapped in the basement which is used as a mortuary.
• Jack's reprise of "Santa Fe" in Newsies is pretty damn bleak.
• In The Nutty Professor (1963), Buddy Love sings "That Old Black Magic" much to the delight of a club full of youngsters. Later, he sings it again drunkenly after hours. The girl he is with starts to see how limited his appeal really is.
• Inverted in 102 Dalmatians when we get a light reprise of "The Villain Sucks" Song from the first movie talking about the confusion of why Cruella is being nice and is now an animal lover.
• In Paint Your Wagon, The Parson leads the citizens of No Name City in The Gospel of No Name City, warning them against their wicked ways or God "will gobble up this town and swallow it down." Naturally, the townsfolks take the Parson's preaching as a compliment. The song is reprised by the chorus, with one modified line ^note "Your reckoning day is near." to "Your reckoning day is here"., when No Name City actually sinks into the Earth.
• The Phantom of the Opera movie musical ends with a sad melody of Christine's breakthrough hit "Think of Me" when the elderly Raoul visits her grave.
• 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. Later in the movie, Mac chases the Predator into the jungle suffers some Sanity Slippage and begins heedlessly babbling the lyrics of the song again.
  Long Tall Sally. She's built sweet! She's got everything that Uncle John needs! Oh baby. I'm gonna have me some fun tonight. I'm gonna have me some fun. I'm gonna have me some fun. I'm gonna have me some fun...
• Compare the ending song of "Everyone Wants to Rule The World" (by Tears for Fears) in ending of Real Genius to the trailer of Dracula Untold. (By Lorde). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OS7UEqTmXk First. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hne-eJOeZzA Second.
• "Ramona On My Mind" on Scott Pilgrim vs. The World is played sadly again after she gets back together with Gideon.
• The Sound of Music:
  • "Edelweiss" comes up twice in the movie: First as a straightforward sign that Captain von Trapp is finally opening up to his family, and later as a defiant but bittersweet statement of patriotism in the face of a Nazi takeover that will do away with the country he loves. It's a subtler version in that the song is performed in the same key, performed by the same person, and does not differ until the Captain falters in his singing. (This is only a Dark Reprise in the movie version; on stage, the song is sung in the later scene only.)
  • The second-act reprise of "My Favorite Things" begins as this, with the children trying to cheer themselves up after Maria has left, but it doesn't work. Then it turns into a Triumphant Reprise as Maria returns and sings along with them.
  • The children sing "The Sound of Music" for the Baroness when she arrives and this leads to their father bonding with them. Later on after Maria has left and the children are depressed, Max tries to get them to sing. Thus the song becomes sadder and some of the children are unable to do it. (This is again only in the film version; in the stage version, the Captain stops them from singing the song again at this point.)
  • "So Long, Farewell". The first time, the Von Trapp kids sing this to a bunch of amused guests. The second time they sing it to a festival sponsored by Nazis, and begin their Run for the Border immediately after all of them are conveniently offstage. However, the trope is averted in that the song is played the same way both times (not counting the faster version the orchestra strikes up at the end of the latter scene, when it becomes clear that the family has escaped).
• Spring Breakers is unique in that it uses dialogue as just sound clips which gets replayed depending on the situation. One example is when Faith calls her grandmother on the phone and tells her how beautiful Miami is and how she wants to stay there forever. She later spends a night in jail and becomes too afraid of hanging out with their new friend Alien. The same soundbite plays again while she takes the bus home.
• Star Trek:
  • Star Trek Beyond has a dark reprise of "Enterprising Young Men" when the Enterprise is attacked and boarded by Krall and his mooks and a sad reprise when what's left of her crashes on Altamid.
  • In the opening of Star Trek Into Darkness, there's a more of a tragic dark reprise of the classic Trek theme leading up to the introduction of Harrison.
• Star Wars
  • Inverted at the end of The Phantom Menace, where the celebration music is a childrens' choir doing a "light" version of the Emperor's exceptionally dark Leitmotif (far grimmer than, if not as immediately imposing as, the Imperial March), foreshadowing the coming darkness. Similarly, at the end of Attack of the Clones, a more triumphant version of the Imperial March is played, underscoring that while the clones appear to be a good thing at the time, evil will come of them later.
  • Anakin's Theme from Episode I repeatedly utilizes six notes from the Imperial March in a soft, light piece.
  • Most of the end credits music for Attack of the Clones is the love theme, with a different ending—it segues into the main thrust of the March, as played slowly on a double bass.
  • The iconic "Force Theme" has several variations ranging from solemn and contemplative (the "Binary Sunset" scene) to triumphant (Leia honoring the heroes for blowing up the Death Star, young Anakin blowing up a TradeFed battleship), but perhaps the darkest variant plays during the final stage of the duel between Obi-Wan and Anakin.
  • Another inversion occurs when Anakin Skywalker dies at the end of Episode VI, where the Imperial March is reprised quietly on a solitary harp.
  • In the Shadows of the Empire soundtrack, "Leia's Nightmare" is a dark version of the "Han and the Princess" love theme mixed with the Imperial March. This is originally in the soundtrack for The Empire Strikes Back during the carbon freeze scene.
  • Yoda's death music in Return of the Jedi is a sad reprise of his theme and the Force theme.
  • Star Wars is made of this trope. Most of the consequential music pieces are darker versions of earlier pieces of the trilogies.
• Parodied in Team America: World Police: "America, Fuck Yeah" is played again later on in the movie, when Gary has left the team and the rest of them go to fight Kim Jong-Il alone. The musical tone is sad and subdued in the reprise, but the lyrics are exactly the same, which is to say, relentlessly boisterous, boorish and ultra-patriotic. The soundtrack actually labels this song as the "Bummer Mix".
• Titanic (1997): Near the middle of the movie, Jack is singing 'Come Josephine' to Rose as they stand near the front of the ship because it feels like they're flying. Later, singing the song is the only thing keeping Rose alive. Also, the music that plays during the dramatic final plunge of the sinking (aside from that played by the actual musical trio, of course) consists heavily of the main theme of the movie, but in a darker and more frantic tone.
• Train to Busan: Su-an's initial performance of "Aloha'oe" (Farewell to Thee) is shown at her school recital. She had practiced it with the intention of performing it for her dad, who didn't show up to the recital. She sings it loudly at the end, letting the Busan soldiers know that she and an accompanying pregnant lady are both human, and not zombies. Fittingly, it's a farewell song - and she chose it for her dad, who killed himself after he was bitten and infected by a zombie, just minutes ago.
  ♫ Aloha 'oe, aloha 'oe
  Until we meet again... ♫
• Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen has a Dark Reprise of the iconic 'landing of the Autobots' scene from the first movie, with landing Decepticons causing widespread damage.
  • Many of the musical themes from the first film are gone, and Optimus's theme becomes the backbone of the score. However, it's never in the same tone of the previous film, which was performed on a woodwind and with minimal percussion to make Optimus's theme sound more organic. The two main treatments are a minor-key variation with dark brass, and a more "spiritual" take (generally used for scenes involving the mythology and taking place after Optimus's death) utilizing a One-Woman Wail. To hear the effect in full, listen to the track titled "Optimus" from the first film, then the one titled "Prime" from the second.
  • In Transformers: Dark of the Moon, the scene in which the Autobots are exiled and forced to leave Earth is accompanied by a heartbreakingly sad reprise of the "Arrival on Earth" theme from the first movie: "There is No Plan".
• TRON: Legacy: The opening notes of "Adagio for Tron" are the same notes (in a lower key) as the sweet end credit music from the first film.
• The original theme from Unbreakable gets a more distorted remix combing motifs from its Stealth Sequel Split in the Grand Finale Glass (2019) with the track "David & Elijah", in which Mr. Glass himself threatens David Dunn that a whole lot of people will die at the hands of him and the Beast unless if he. Breaks through. That. Door!
• Pink Floyd's The Wall features a darker reprise of an already-dark song. "In The Flesh?" expresses Pink's disillusionment with life, or, alternately, an outsider's view as Pink starts to isolate himself. Later, "In The Flesh!" shows Pink's graduation into a full-blown fascist after a psychotic breakdown.
  • "Hey You" could also be considered another darker reprise of "Another Brick In The Wall" (Parts All) as they both share the same guitar riff. "Another Brick in The Wall" being about Pink's anger at the world and feelings of abandonment which leads him to build the Wall while "Hey You" is about the crushing despair and loneliness he feels once he completely withdrew behind it only to find that he was trapped behind the wall.
    • The various parts of "Another Brick In The Wall" are gradually darker reprises of one another too, while each is of a rather dark subject matter (His father dying, his cruel authoritarian teachers, and his wife cheating on him and leaving him respectively) they get increasingly angry and deranged with each passing part, Part I is rather cold about it, part II is much louder and more aggressive, and Part III is by far the angriest and loudest with the same ghostly guitar riff used in all of them becoming much louder and faster.
• In War Comes to America, the last film in the Why We Fight series, the song My Country, 'tis of Thee plays over an animation of America's early expansion. At the end of the film, a dark version plays over scenes of Pearl Harbor on fire, morphing into a Triumphant Reprise as FDR calls for war against Japan.
• A few times in Will Ferrell movies:
  • In Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, the day after he goes out with his attractive co host, Ron Burgundy and his crew sing "Afternoon Delight." Later, he has lost his job and all respect, and is now sitting drunk at the bar, singing the same song in a drunken, sad way.
  • In Blades of Glory, the song for the pairs first performance is "Don't Want To Miss A Thing." After his partner refuses to speak to him, he leaves many messages on his phone, one of which is a sad, drunken version of that song.
  • And Semi-Pro: Jackie Moon earned all his money that he bought the Tropics with using royalties from his song "Love Me Sexy." He later goes through a Heroic BSoD of sorts, and sings a variation of that song while lying in a dumpster. Yes, it's sad and drunken.
• The Wizard of Oz, in a scene that was ultimately cut from the movie for being a little too long and depressing, had Dorothy doing a Dark Reprise of the famous song "Over The Rainbow" after being trapped by the Wicked Witch in her castle. The performance is said to have reduced the cast and crew to tears. The remainder of the scene is kept in the movie: Dorothy cries out to Auntie Em how frightened she is, and Aunt Em appears in the crystal ball. After begging Dorothy to tell her where she is, she vanishes into a swirl of light. The swirl converges onto the witch, mocking her "Come back! Come back!" She cackles at Dorothy before turning toward the camera (the audience) and cackling as if to say, "You're next!"

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