Bridget, from 8 Simple Rules hears a short guitar chord every time the cool new guy, Damian appears. She is the only character to notice the music, which stops when she falls for a nerd instead.
A little Lampshade Hanging went on as well, since Bridget would ask if anyone else could hear the guitar.
Whenever Dennis Duffy shows up on 30 Rock, the soundtrack greets him with harmonica music. Which is weird seeing how he's a Recurring Character and none of the actual regulars seem to have their own musical cues.
Liz Lemon definitely has her own, varied instrumental versions of the "Who's That?" song from the Pilot episode.
The melody of "Muffin Top" has been used on occasion as a leitmotif for Jenna.
The Addams Family: the characters Lurch, Uncle Fester, Morticia, Gomez and Thing have their own themes.
The syndicated series The Adventures of Superboy had themes for just about every character and many other elements of the show, including: Lex Luthor, Bizarro, Metallo, Smallville, kryptonite, and the Bureau For Extra-Normal Matters (Clark's workplace in Seasons 3 and 4). Even minor villains that appeared only in one or two episodes got their own themes.
The Amazing Race uses this for certain teams, like when Harlem Globetrotters Flight Time and Big Easy (Season 15) got the Globetrotter theme "Sweet Georgia Brown" and cowboys Jet and Cord (Season 16) had generic Western movie music.
Angel: Angel has one, a heroic sounding anthem, later phased out in the third season. Brought back intentionally for a moment in Season 5 when Angel is in desperate need to rediscover his original mission statement of helping the helpless.
Used frequently in Arrested Development, but especially with Gob. It's to the point that he must consider Europe's "The Final Countdown" to be his own personal theme song.
Season 4 uses "Hello Darkness my old friend" by Simon & Garfunkel as his Leit Motif for when he feels sad.
There's even a specific seven-note stab of music used every time Oscar suggests that he's Buster's father.
Each of the dinos on Barney & Friends have a leitmotif. Barney's leitmotif is the show's theme song although "I Love You" is also used (mainly at the end). Baby Bop has the song "My Yellow Blankey", BJ has "BJ's Song", and Riff has "I Hear Music Everywhere". Additionally in the earlier seasons, Baby Bop had a segment of "Baby Bop's Street Dance" play when she appeared.
Many of the villains in Batman (1966) had recognizable leitmotifs...a whimsical six-note flourish for the Joker, a waddly kind of tune for the Penguin, a spiderwebby harpsichord chord for Black Widow, etc.
Bear McCreary, the composer of the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica, has developed leitmotifs for nearly every primary and secondary character on the show, as well as numerous locations, themes, and relationships. He runs a very detailed blog of the process which can be found here. The themes include:
Number Six: this theme appears in virtually every scene where Virtual Six appears to Gaius Baltar, and is played on the gamelan.
The Adamas: their Celtic-inspired theme is often played on a uilleann pipe. Commonly known as 'Wander My Friends,' and has Irish lyrics.
Roslin: the theme that most commonly represents her by Season 4 started out as the Destiny (religious) theme, heard prominently in the Season 1 finale.
Roslin And Adama: a Celtic-inspired waltz that was first introduced in the "Resurrection Ship" two-parter in Season 2 and returned for many of their most intimate moments, it was featured most heavily in the back half of Season 4. McCreary called it the only true love theme of the show.
Baltar: a number of short phrases. In the Season 4 premiere he gains a new religious theme for his scenes among the cultists.
Lee: due to being so inflexible, it is rarely heard on the show.
Kara: associated with a number of themes, including Starbuck's Destiny (originally used to represent her relationship with Leoben) and the Forgiven theme from Season 1.
Lee and Kara: a string-heavy theme inspired by the Shape of Things to Come (Opera House) theme, it first appears over flashbacks to New Caprica in Season 3, as well as Lee's attempt to help Kara in 'Maelstrom' and their good-bye in 'Six of One' among other episodes.
Kara and Anders: another string-heavy theme that plays over the two scenes where Kara says good-bye to Sam. In The Plan TV movie it is used for Anders alone.
Tigh: a military-inspired brass theme that first plays in the Season 2 episode 'Fragged.' The instruments used vary wildly from season to season, underscoring Tigh's growth.
Gaeta: introduced midway through Season 4 when Gaeta is injured, the theme comes in both instrumental and choral variants (sung by Alessandro Julianni, Gaeta's actor, no less). In Season 4.5, it sees heavy use during the mutiny arc.
Military theme: used most often for scenes between Adama and Tigh, as well as during the Season 4.5 mutiny arc.
Shape of Things to Come: AKA Opera House theme. Plays over the Season 1 finale, as well as various destiny-themed moments throughout the seasons.
All Along the Watchtower: chiefly played on the electric sitar and electric violin. This theme first appears in the Season 3 premiere, and in 'Crossroads' comes to represent the Final Five, which becomes its primary use in Season 4.
Basestar: a piano piece first introduced in Season 3 to accompany Gaius Baltar's scenes on the Cylon basestars. Used in Season 4 during the Cylon Civil War arc.
Boomer/Athena/Hera: A gamelan theme that's probably among the most commonly heard on the show.
Religious ceremony: the "Two Funeral" theme from Season 1, also the US Season 1 theme, is heard at a lot of funerals.
Incidentally, according to McCreary, the development of so many leitmotifs was not the original plan: "For a show that set out to avoid 'themes', Battlestar Galactica has certainly ended up with quite a few." This perhaps serves as an illustration that they're such an important part of storytelling convention that they're almost impossible to avoid.
Lester's Theme in Beakman's World played whenever he gave a wrong answer or was generally super annoying. Which was most of the time he was on screen.
Bewitched: A little tune would play whenever somebody experienced sexual attraction. A different tune would play whenever a scene focused on Tabitha.
In The Borgias, Cesare and Lucrezia have what can only be described as a love theme.
In BrainDead (2016), people who've been infected by the Space Bugs are present if "You Might Think" by The Cars is playing during a scene.
The first three seasons of Buffy the Vampire Slayer had a tendency to play Buffy and Angel's love theme every time there was a moment related to their relationship on screen. It's a semi-mournful tune most often played on a piano. Apparently the score for Season 2 won awards, though that doesn't stop some people from mocking the Wangst factor every time it appeared. Listen here.
Starting in Season 3, the Buffy/Angel theme changes, and undergoes a slow metamorphosis that parallels their relationship coming apart. During the Mayor's advice for them in "Choices" we can hear several of the different themes played back to back, indicating that this is a pivotal scene, at least for Angel
Played with in The Zeppo. The episode is dedicated to showing how awesome Xander is, whether he (or anyone else) realise it or not. Meanwhile, an intentionally trite episode of Buffy's playing in the background. Mid-episode we cut suddenly to a massively OTT emotional scene with Buffy and Angel with this music being played — it cuts off when Xander appears at the door, hesitantly starting to ask for help, then offer help...then when he walks off, the music and the scene crank up again at full tilt while we cut away to follow Xander, instead.
Jenny Calendar picked up a similar semi-mournful theme underscoring her derailed romance with Giles — unfortunately for her it was on the last episode where she was alive. It did play in later episodes where Giles recalls her, or when he sees her in a Drusilla-induced hallucination.
Similarly Willow/Oz and Willow/Tara both had prominent themes, which are played together at the end of "New Moon Rising" as she decides who she wants.
There's also the dramatic music that plays every time Xander and Cordelia make out, played quite clearly for laughs.
And don't forget the plunky little theme that plays whenever Xander and Willow have an illicit "moment".
Chuck on NBC has Tim Jones composing many different themes, the most commonly used of which is a remix of Cobrastyle by the Teddybears. Different mixes of it have been used to fit action sequences since the pilot, though it has been most often used in the third season.
On Clarissa Explains It All, whenever Clarissa's friend Sam put his ladder up to her window, he would be introduced by a drawn-out guitar "twang".
In Season 4 of Dexter, the Trinity Killer is given "Introducing Trinity" and "Trinity Suite", ominous and haunting themes that illustrate his dark nature as a serial killer. It reappears in Season 6 when the cops think they may have found him (in reality, Dexter killed him), but it is instead his son who did the murder.
Doctor Who has used this frequently. It's more prominent in the new series, which has had only two composers so far and a reasonable music budget, but goes right back to the old days:
The Doctor:
From the mid-Third Doctor era onwards (but especially in the Fourth and Fifth Doctor era), moments of Doctor cleverness would be accompanied with the music cue transitioning into the "oo-weee-ooo" three-note pattern from the theme.
The modern Doctors tend to have two — an "action" theme and a slower emotional theme. "The Doctor's Theme", also known as "The Bad Wolf Theme" and (to the production crew) "Flavia's Theme", was the first, used for the Ninth Doctor.
The Eleventh Doctor has a Mike Oldfieldian action theme, "I Am the Doctor", that's something of a spiritual successor to "All the Strange, Strange Creatures". He also had "The Mad Man with a Box" for quieter, fairy-tale moments, essentially serving as his version of the mysterious "Doctor's Theme".
The Twelfth Doctor's personal theme is titled "A Good Man?", which contains his primary theme and a secondary "victory" theme, most notably played when the cast steps out onto the Moon in "Kill the Moon" and when Danny Pink marshals the Cybermen in "Death in Heaven". Arguably "Breaking the Wall" becomes a tertiary theme from his second season onwards, with notable use in "Heaven Sent", in "The Doctor Falls" and during his regeneration scene in "Twice Upon a Time".
The Thirteenth Doctor's theme, simply titled "Thirteen", is notable for being the first Doctor whose theme is written in a major key.
Cybermen:
The 1960s Cybermen had a tense drumming arrangement, a piece of library music ("Space Adventure"), with some otherwordly music thrown in.
The 1980s Cybermen had their own distinctive plodding march — originally written for "Earthshock".
"The Cybermen", first appearing in 2006, was a Leitmotif for the Cybermen, with a particularly epic version in "The Next Doctor", and still being used as of "Dark Water". Indeed, in that episode it's used alongside a visual reference to a Cyberman's teardrop eyes as the reveal that they are that episode's monster of the week.
Segun Akinola's Cyberman motif hearkens back to the 60s and 80s themes, mainly being a heavy percussive piece with little in the way of actual melody.
The Master:
The Delgado Master has his own evil theme music of creepy awesome. It gets repeated so often it becomes a fanfare announcing his arrival before you even see him on screen.
"The Master's Theme", consisting of a four-note drumbeat. He also has a six-note motif the composer admits musically states "The Ma-ster!" for moments of notable eeeevil.
"The Spy Master", which has the notable distinction of being more associated with Evil Dan than the character it was actually written for in the first place.
The same music plays over Adric's departure as does over his introduction the season prior.
Early in the Third Doctor’s era, scenes of UNIT soldiers rolling out and jumping into action would be accompanied by a punchy 70s action theme written by Dudley Simpson. When UNIT returned for the revival, they received a new motif, which was subsequently beefed up for "UNIT Rocks" in Series Four (and joined by a B-theme in "Planet of the Dead"), also appearing in The Sarah Jane Adventures.
The Torchwood Theme, used in Series 2, and as the theme tune for Torchwood. Later crops up (with Jack's own theme) whenever he returns to the parent series.
Series Five also introduced motifs for Amy Pond, the new Daleks, the cracks (in the form of a creepy buzz) and a joint theme for Amy and the Doctor.
Most of the above examples are non-diegetic, meaning they are not heard within the story by the characters. A major exception is "The Impossible Girl", a.k.a. "Clara's Theme", introduced in 2012 to accompany Clara Oswald and her other incarnations. In her final appearance as a companion, 2015's "Hell Bent", the theme becomes diegetic as the Doctor plays it on his guitar and it is revealed to be a tune composed by the Doctor himself as a subconscious representation of an important message Clara gives him before he is forced to erase his memories of her. This retroactively renders all previous uses of the leitmotif as a Call-Forward.
Certain locations also have themes; most notably Gallifrey, which was gifted with the gorgeous "This Is Gallifrey: Our Childhood, Our Home" in Series 3, and continues to be used (often in a wistful, nostalgic fashion) to refer to the planet and its Time Lord inhabitants. It also serves to underscore the connection between the Doctor and the Master, being first heard in a conversation between the Doctor and Professor Yana in "Utopia", before being played in its full glory during a flashback to Gallifrey itself in "The Sound of Drums". A militaristic version was used in "The End of Time, Part Two" (and an action version was cut from "The Day of the Doctor"), and variants have appeared in "The Name of the Doctor" and episodes of Series 10 revolving around Missy.
Segun Akinola's fantastic (but sadly unreleased) Flux Theme is a work that can switch from action-packed to tragic at a moment's notice, and holds the distinction of being the first Akinola motif to be reincorporated into the RTD2 era as of "Wild Blue Yonder"
Dynasty (1981) featured highly melodramatic musical themes for most of its major characters and some settings. The most easily recognized would be the rising and falling strings of Alexis's theme as well as the theme associated with La Mirage. A compilation video can be seen here.
Throughout the entire series, Gilmore Girls had a series of acoustic leitmotifs performed by Sam Phillips at important moments.
In Glee, both times April Rhodes is introduced in her episodes, a version of Heart Of Glass is playing in the background.
Sue also has her own: A marching band drumline plays to announce her appearances.
A slower, sweeter version of Summer Nights plays during Sam and Mercedes interactions.
Kurt and Blaine have their own piano theme that plays during poignant moments in their relationship.
In Grey's Anatomy, Derek and Meredith have a piano leitmotif that is played during important moments of their relationship, beginning with the scene where Meredith pleads with Derek and says, "Pick me. Choose me. Love me." After Derek dies, it is usually used during flashbacks or memories of him.
A strings leitmotif is used in Season 11 whenever Meredith is remembering something about her mother or her past.
A minor example, but Into the Fire plays during both "A Hard Day's Night" and "My Next Life" — both episodes focus on the same patient, Katie Bryce.
Claude's theme involves wind and voices to create the feeling of a ghost-like presence in reference to his invisibility.
Sylar's involves marimbas and bassoons with staccato to re-create the sound of clocks ticking in reference to the character's ability to see how things work. Subverted when Sylar gains shapeshifting powers. You see Mr. Bennet walking down the hallway while Sylar's theme plays; he looks incredibly smug, which he really shouldn't be, given that Sylar has successfully used his new ability to completely discredit Bennet and nearly destroy his marriage. So, obviously, you conclude that this must be Sylar shapeshifted into Bennet, right? Wrong! Makes the Batman Gambit actually working that much more believable, if you — with all your Genre Savvy — have just fallen for it from beyond the Fourth Wall. Sylar's theme also includes the sound of a growling animal, referring to him hunting down other people with powers to satisfy the "Hunger" that comes with his own power.
Matt Parkman's theme involves voices being played backwards when he uses his power of telepathy.
Peter Petrelli's theme involves marcato strings.
Niki Sanders' theme was based on her character's alter-ego named Jessica and involved winds and Indian voices chanting in an underscore to give a feeling that she was possessed.
Mohinder Suresh's theme is the piano composition that plays at the end of some episodes.
Human Target, in classic action movie style, uses an heroic orchestral leitmotif for main character Christopher Chance in various forms and tones throughout the episodes.
In The Incredible Hulk (1977), David Banner and the Hulk each have their own, often incorporated into the background music. David's is The Lonely Man Theme, while the Hulk's is a simple four-note theme. The opening song ("Incredible Hulk Main Title — Version 2") incorporates both, alternating lines of the Lonely Man theme with ever-louder repetition of the Hulk's theme. You can hear it here, starting at about 40 seconds.
Jack McGee gets his own leitmotif, a comical theme used in less-dramatic moments.
In "The First", Dell Frye's evil Hulk has his own five-note leitmotif.
Kamen Rider Double has "Two in One", the Leitmotif for the protagonists, which has a few different remixes throughout the series. The best of these is probably "Futo Wild Battle" from The Movie, which combines it with "Accel's Dash", the theme of Kamen Rider Accel's Super Mode Trial Form.
In Kamen Rider OOO, every major character gets one, but more noteworthy is that every combo has a Leitmotif which are sang by the belt. It got lampshaded in the very first episode.
Bill Thompson in LazyTown has a hard rock guitar riff when he confronts the "evil dude" by running into him, entering his liar, etc.
Legion: In "Chapter 22" and "Chapter 26", David Haller is associated with the song "Wot!" by Captain Sensible.
On Lost in Space (2018), June Harris / "Dr. Smith" has subtle, creepy little theme that tends to play whenever she's up to her mischief.
In The Mighty Boosh, whenever a shaman (mainly Naboo) turns his back on someone their leitmotif plays.
Mr. McFeely had a signature theme that played whenever he appeared, a fast series of piano chords.
King Friday the 13th had a trumpet fanfare every time he appeared.
Even the fish in Mr. Rogers' aquarium had a theme of their own in the form of light wind music.
The Trolley had its own traveling style music that played as it ran across the tracks.
Invoked in The Muppet Show when Dudley Moore was the guest star. He brought in a machine called M.A.M.A. to score the episode. During the "Pigs In Space" sketch, the machine provided leitmotifs for the characters. Dr. Strangepork got a big, triumphant fanfare, Captain Link got Losing Horns ("Why does it play dumb music whenever I talk?") and Miss Piggy got burlesque music.
NCIS: Tony and Ziva have their own leitmotif, played during emotionally charged moments. It was included in Tony's last episode, "Family First", triggering a Tear Jerker moment, as it played after it was revealed Ziva was dead.
Tony and Ziva are a rare TV couple with two leitmotifs, the one above and a sample from a bit of score entitled "Aliyah," from the episode of the same name. The show justifies this by using them in different ways. Their theme plays over scenes focusing on them as a couple or Tony being vulnerable with Ziva, and "Aliyah" plays over scenes of Ziva sharing herself with Tony, usually having to do with her past in Israel. This theming remains even after the introduction of their daughter, Tali,, as "Aliyah" plays over scenes of Tony telling her about Ziva, and their theme plays over scenes of Ziva remembering their brief time as a family in Cairo after she "died."
Root has a unique theme which opens with a series of clear, single notes which acts as the foundation for the main theme. Nolan said that her music was one of the reasons she was given an extended role beyond villain of the week. The full track is called "Root of all Evil".
Finch shares his leitmotif with the Machine, which is appropriate, given he created it.
Reese's leitmotif is, quite obviously, titled "Man In A Suit". A different arrangement, "Knock Knock", is used for action scenes.
Poirot: In the series starring David Suchet, Hercule Poirot has his woodwinds heavy theme that is also used in the credits.
Every Power RangersBig Bad (and at least one Dragon) is recognizable by music, with Lord Zedd's being the most well-known (Rita even used it instead of her own when she appeared in front of Rito and Goldar in Power Rangers Zeo episode "Mondo's Last Stand"). A few rare good guys have a song (early in the series) or their own little tune, and there was one instance of a mystery Ranger's identity having a nicely sneaky Reveal: He mentioned that they'd met him before, at which point the intro to the music that always accompanied a certain little boy from an earlier episode is played. Sure enough, it turns out the mystery Ranger is that child's adult self, sent back in time.
Power RangersReunion Shows will bring back the theme song for each series that returns. The 15th anniversary episode "Once A Ranger" (part of Power Rangers Operation Overdrive) makes it a little absurd, however: Rangers from five teams (Mighty Morphin, Ninja Storm, Dino Thunder, SPD, and Mystic Force) appear and we get to hear all five of their respective season theme songsnote Except Mighty Morphin's, due to legal issues — it's believed that the producers wouldn't have spent money for the right to use it after all they spent bringing the actors in each of the three battles in which they participate. The big final battle throws in the Operation Overdrive theme as well, since the battle is the Operation Overdrive team's collective He's Back! moment following their earlier De Powering.
Although, the most recognizable music from Power Rangers after the main theme has to be Bulk and Skull's background music which was used from Mighty Morphin' to Turbo which is kind of silly and complimented with gag noises. Possibly due to the fact that the pair remain the longest-running recurring characters of the series. Bulk And Spike's leitmotif in Power Rangers Samurai uses a similar version.
Lightspeed Rescue team had a notable motif drawn from the guitar solo/bridge from its theme song.
Pushing Daisies is crawling with them. Emerson's and Oscar's are the most obvious, while the Ned And Chuck music is sufficiently prevalent to double as the show's Theme Tune. And in the episode [...]... Ned and Chuck's bed scene wasn't accompanied by the usual music, which was the most immediate clue that it was actually a Dream Sequence. Of course, Chuck pulling her skin off to reveal Olive underneath was also a bit of a giveaway.
The old Richard Greene Robin Hood TV show generally had a 10 note intro for the title. Blackadder turned it into a Leitmotif for Robin Hood in the final episode, Back and Forth.
In Scrubs, a certain piano melody plays during emotional moments or when the main character J.D. learns a lesson.
In the early seasons, The Count would appear and disappear with ominous organ music.
The Grand High Triangle Lover has a fanfare that plays as he appears and disappears.
From the late 80's and through to the early 2000's, Snuffy had a theme that would play as he was seen walking.
Sherlock Hemlock has a theme that Ernie calls "detective music".
In one episode, whenever Telly delivered messages to the ill Big Bird and Zoe, dynamic music would play.
Skins never usually bothered, but Cook will eternally be associated with "Ace Of Spades" (plays at the start of his first episode, the end of his first episode, and his kid brother playing it in Rock Band 2 during his S4 ep).
Sophia of all people got one too; the (deliberately) extraordinarily creepy "Organum" by Max Richter, which plays when Emily goes to her house and when they find her shrine to Naomi.
In Smallville, everytime some dramatic something hints at Clark's future as Superman, a few bars of the theme music from Superman: The Motion Picture can be heard.
Stargate SG-1 has "Sam and Jack's Theme" and the "Goa'uld Theme" among others.
Naturally, the SG-1 theme is reused by composer Joel Goldsmith. However, thanks to the larger budget, he was able to do David Arnold's full Stargate overture (though Ra's theme is swapped out for the Ori theme) for the first time since the original movie.
The Nox, a alien race that resemble faeries, have one.
Star Trek has several memorable motifs: The Enterprise fanfare, the Klingon theme, the fight music of doom from the Original Series...
The fight music was used in The Cable Guy in a clever Shout-Out to the Spock vs. Kirk fight: Jim Carrey's character actually sings along to the music while it plays in the background. It also highlights just how unbalanced he is, as he takes the fight as seriously as Spock does and almost winds up killing Matt Broderick several times.
Also used on Futurama, in an episode more or less directly parodying the Original Series' Amok Time — when Fry hears the iconic fight music, he knows he's really in trouble.
In that episode it happened to be the national anthem of the planet they were on.
Given a nice little cameo reprise near the end of Star Trek Into Darkness when Spock fights Khan.
The planet-destroying robot from "The Doomsday Machine" had its own music of doom whenever it was on screen, courtesy of Sol Kaplan. This music would be reused to represent other threats from Season 2 (such as the cloud vampire from "Obsession" and the giant space amoeba from "The Immunity Syndrome").
The Motion Picture had a distinctive theme for Decker and Ilia, named "Ilia's Theme" on the soundtrack; and introduced a Klingon theme that would make appearances in later movies and TV shows.
Composers seem to love putting their own personal stamp on Mr. Spock, who has had three different leitmotifs to his name, all of which are very different from each other, though they all have a certain wistfulness to them...
His TOS leitmotif, by Gerald Fried. This is the one with the lone bass guitar, though it was often played by the string section as well.
The leitmotif from Star Trek II, by James Horner. It will always be associated with his death, because a version of it plays during that scene.
The version from the new movie, by Michael Giacchino. Also a Regional Riff for the planet Vulcan and the Vulcan people.
The premiere episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, "Emissary" had a very effective use of mixed motif to evoke Passing the Torch. List when the Enterprise undocks to leave: a bar of the TNG theme, usually used to end an episode leads directly into a bar of the DS9 theme.
Sometimes in Star Trek: Voyager, whenever Janeway makes an inspirational speech, a slower, incomplete version of the theme tune plays.
In all the Star Trek series, slow-paced violin or flute music plays during sad and/or romantic moments. Flute music is also sometimes used when a scene focuses on Chakotay.
In the Next Generation episode "The Neutral Zone", the crew thaw out people frozen in cryogenics from the 20th century. One of them is a country singer, and whenever he did something, guitar music would play.
In "Devil's Due" from Next Generation, Ardra has her own little theme tune, slightly seductive and somewhat creepy that plays whenever she appears unexpectedly on-scene.
Star Trek: Picard brings back the Voyager theme for a few scenes involving Seven of Nine, as well as a darker remix of the classic "Romulan Theme" from TOS.
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds also reorchestrates the Romulan theme in "A Quality of Mercy", which is an alt-universe retelling of the classic "Balance of Terror".
Supernatural has "Dean's Family Dedication Theme", a slightly mournful tune played when that love for his Dad and brother gets a little too obsessive.
There's also a much rockier "Brothers' Theme", played during the lighter brotherly moments and distorted a little when the relationship is being strained.
Death is given "O Death" a traditional Southern ballad performed by Jen Titus, which is used in his introductory scene. Reaper Billie who will eventually become the new Death sings it in her first appearance.
In Top Gear, a variation on the theme from For a Few Dollars More was a Recurring Riff until it was used extensively in the destruct test of the Toyota Hilux pickup. When the truck proved to be Made of Iron, the theme was associated entirely with the Toyota Hilux, in its honor.
In Twin Peaks you usually heard the Theme TuneFalling whenever a situation or character demonstrated or expressed sincere love, in whatever ordinary, strange or abstract form it manifested itself.
Laura's bittersweet theme is also easily recognizable, and usually encroaches upon scenes in which she is being discussed or when her absence is weighing on other characters.
Bobby Briggs and Audrey Horne had what were initially personal leitmotifs, that were later used more widely to indicate respectively intrigue and flirtatiousness.
The Ultra Series has the "Wandaba" scat motif that plays when jets launch or the Science Patrol team charges into battle. Here is one example.
There are a few recurring themes in The Untamed composed by Hai Lin, but the most prominent is definitely 'Wu Ji', the main theme for lead protagonists Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji. It plays in several different variations throughout the series, including as the end credits theme, usually when Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji are sharing an especially sweet bonding moment.
Wonder Woman: Wonder Woman's transformation sequence was always accompanied by this. It changed over the three seasons from a jazz motif to a build and flourish number by the end of Season 3.
Naboo is so upset with Howard and Vince messing with his book of spells that he turns his back on them, the worst punishment a shaman doles out, which involves him slowly rotating backwards to a jaunty bassline.
Naboo is so upset with Howard and Vince messing with his book of spells that he turns his back on them, the worst punishment a shaman doles out, which involves him slowly rotating backwards to a jaunty bassline.
. The themes include: