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* ''VideoGame/KirbyTripleDeluxe'' bonus game ''Kirby Fighters Deluxe'' uses the title theme, a remix of Triple Deluxe's boss theme itself, during King Dedede's return to final boss glory.

* In ''VideoGame/KirbyPlanetRobobot'', the final boss theme, Vagrant Counting Song of Retrospection, is a mash up of the title theme and the [[spoiler: [[VideoGame/KirbySuperStar Galactic Nova Nucleus' theme]]]].

** See the FightingGames section for examples from the fighters.

* ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'':
** Many of the games starting from''VideoGame/SonicAdventure'' have had either their title screen music or main vocal theme (or at least an arrangement of one of the two) play during the FinalBoss battle.

** Get an E-rank in ''VideoGame/SonicUnleashed'', and the title theme music is played...[[StylisticSuck very badly]]. It is hilarious.

* All of the video games based on ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987'' are full of this, ranging from occasional quoting of the "heroes in a half-shell" riff to remixing the entire theme song.

* ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' :

** In the actual ''VideoGame/MegaManII'' for the UsefulNotes/GameBoy, the title song plays during the final stage too.

* In ''VideoGame/SmurfRescueInGargamelsCastle'' for the UsefulNotes/{{Atari 2600}}, ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs1981'' theme tune plays when you first turn on the game and right when your game ends.

* The ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' doujin game ''[=MegaMari=]'' uses its title screen theme for the final battle.
** The main Videogame/{{Touhou}} series itself has its title theme in the ending themes for ''Embodiment of Scarlet Devil'', ''Imperishable Night'', ''Undefined Fantastic Object'' and ''Ten Desires''.

* This occurs many times in ''Manga/FruitsBasket'', especially during sad moments.

** ''Manga/BattleTendency'': In the final episode, the first OP for ''Manga/PhantomBlood'' ("Sono Chi No Sadame") is used when Joseph Joestar manages to successfully defeat Kars. Specifically, the song begins from the second verse onwards.
** ''Manga/StardustCrusaders'': The OP for the first half of the season ("Stand Proud") appears twice in the installment, during the recap of the 'Tarot Arc' once the group makes it to Egypt; and played once more during a recap of the motives behind each of the heroes after they arrive at DIO's mansion.
** ''Manga/DiamondIsUnbreakable'': The epilogue is played off with the entirety of the final OP of that season, "Great Days". However, this version of the OP is done by '''every''' previous OP singer in the series up until that point.

* In the ''Franchise/IndianaJones'' films ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade'' and ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheKingdomOfTheCrystalSkull'' briefly feature the ominous Ark of the Covenant leitmotif from the first film, when the Ark is depicted in a crypt in ''Last Crusade'' and when we glimpse the Ark itself in the warehouse in ''Crystal Skull''.
* In ''Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial'' when Elliot and ET go out on Halloween, ET(under a ghost sheet) is drawn to a child dressed as Yoda and says "Home! Home!" as a bit of Yoda's theme from ''Film/StarWarsTheEmpireStrikesBack'' plays. Both films were scored by John Williams.

* ''Franchise/KamenRider'' tend to pull this sort of thing from time to time. The most memorable would be ''Series/KamenRiderDouble'', which played the main theme ''four'' times. One when Double and Accel take on the Weather Dopant, another when [[spoiler: Shotaro faces the Utopia Dopant all by himself]], another in the finale [[spoiler: when Shotaro and Phillip fight together once again]], and finally in TheMovie, when [[spoiler: Double becomes Cyclone Joker Gold Xtreme and defeats Kamen Rider Eternal]].

* ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'' does this in every episode.

* In the '80s ''[[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' cartoon, the main action theme that played while the Turtles kicked butt is actually a countermelody to the title theme and is actually present in that song as a harmony line.

** ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter2004'': "Testament of a Hero" plays when the last stage of the [[OurDragonsAreDifferent Lao-Shan Lung]] battle is reached, which is coincidentally the only place where you [[PlotArmor can actually kill the thing.]]

** ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter3Tri'': "Testament of a Hero" plays after you hit the Jhen Mohran with a Dragonator in the second phase. The same applies to Dah'ren Mohran in ''Monster Hunter 4''.

* ''VideoGame/StellaGlow'': An extended version of the game's anime opening theme is played during the TrueFinalBoss battle against [[spoiler:Certesia, in the unlockable path to the GoldenEnding]].

* During the final battle against Queen Beryl in the last episode of the Dark Kingdom arc of ''Anime/SailorMoon'', the main theme, "Moonlight Densetsu" plays.

** ''Film/StarTrek2009'' ends with a remix of the original series' theme.

** Hell, the ''entire score'' is just remixes of various themes from the show!

* Happens... fairly regularly in some variation on ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends''.
** Its soundtrack on ''VideoGame/CartoonNetworkPunchTimeExplosion'' meanwhile, '''is''' this.

* ''WesternAnimation/GeneratorRex'' does this '''all the time''', with the main riff being remixed and played in various ways to fit the goings on of the show.
** At one point, Rex learns that he played the accordion [[spoiler:pre-Nanite Event]]. Cue the theme song--on an accordion!

* [[AutobotsRockOut JOINT]], the first opening of season 2 of ''LightNovel/ShakuganNoShana'', makes a return in the battle against [[ImplacableMan Sabrac]] towards the end of the season.

* The final episode of ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}} Evolution-R'' uses "Give a Reason" (the OP song from earlier series ''Slayers NEXT'') as BackgroundMusic during the [[spoiler:battle against Shabranigdu]].