History Main / MusicalisInterruptus

* Played for laughs in ''Manga/GushingOverMagicalGirls''. Episode 12 has Azure 1v1 Baiser, with the theme music doing your standard TriumphantReprise...only to [[MusicalisInterruptus stop dead]] while Neroalice gathers up her fallen teammates, and then take up again once she's cleared the field.

* ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'', when Anakin and Padme are about to kiss, then she decides not to.

* ''VisualNovel/SchoolDays'' does this at least twice, in episodes 5 and 6, each time using previous ending themes. And it's ''not'' played for laughs, especially in episode 6, when the music stops as soon as [[spoiler:Kotonoha reaches the school rooftop and sees Makoto making out with Sekai.]]
* Happens in episode 11 of ''Anime/RozenMaiden''. "Battle of Rose" plays whilst Shinku fights Suigintou, [[spoiler:who proceeds to crush her against a junk pile, cutting the music.]]

* A diegetic example in ''Manga/{{Trigun}}'', when one of a gang of marauders [[BullyingTheDragon threatens Legato]] in a bar, and the jazz band continues to play through physical abuse of a captured girl and gunfire scattered around Legato. The saxophonist, one of Legato's henchmen, abruptly stops when Legato finally gives the gangster [[LetsGetDangerous his full attention]].

* In ''Manga/BlackLagoon'' "[[CreepyChildrenSinging My mother has killed me... my father is eating me... my brothers and sisters, sit under the table, picking up my bones! They'll bury them, under the cold marble stones]]...

* ''Anime/IrresponsibleCaptainTylor''. After the crew of the Soyokaze escape from quarantine and declare that their BornLucky captain must surely be alive and that they're going to rescue him, the {{Leitmotif}} that always plays when the crew starts doing something awesome is suddenly interrupted by a squad of armed guards ordering them back into detention.
* At the end of the final episode of ''Manga/ICantUnderstandWhatMyHusbandIsSaying'', the credits theme stops when [[spoiler: Karou's pregnancy test turns positive]]. It then starts up again and plays until the episode finishes.
* During the Doma arc of ''Anime/YuGiOh'', this happens when Jonouchi (Joey) draws his Legendary Dragon against Ryuzaki (Rex)

* This trope signifies that [[Anime/FistOfTheNorthStar Kenshiro]] has shown up to stop the bad guy. [[YourHeadAsplode Permanently]]. Usually happens in the middle of an attack.
* The penultimate episode of ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders'' has an odd {{Meta}} version of this. Near the end of the opening theme song, [[BigBad DIO]] appears behind [[TheHero Jotaro]] seemingly via teleportation; the previous episode revealed that DIO has the power to [[TimeStandsStill stop time]], so this time it's shown happening from his perspective. When the singers get to the lyric "End of the World", DIO cuts them off by [[CallingYourAttacks shouting "THE WORLD!"]], which puts the song on hold until he gets into position and restarts time again.
* Played for laughs in ''Manga/GushingOverMagicalGirls''. Episode 12 has Azure 1v1 Baiser, with the theme music doing your standard TriumphantReprise...only to [[MusicalisInterruptus stop dead]] while Neroalice gathers up her fallen teammates, and then take up again once she's cleared the field.

* ''Theatre/SeventeenSeventySix'' has a pretty good subversion in "Cool, Cool, Considerate Men". In the middle of the number, while the congressmen are dancing between the desks, the secretary smoothly inserts himself into the lyrics as though he has to do this all the time.

* Played for laughs in "Manga/GushingOverMagicalGirls". Episode 12 has Azure 1v1 Baiser, with the theme music doing your standard TriumphantReprise...only to [[MusicalisInterruptus stop dead]] while Neroalice gathers up her fallen teammates, and then take up again once she's cleared the field.