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Zennistrad from The Multiverse Since: Jul, 2011 Relationship Status: I don't mind being locked in this eternal maze!
#1: Feb 6th 2015 at 5:48:45 PM

GlennMagusHarvey pointed this out to me elsewhere, but this is a commonly-misused trope that I see here on the wiki. People often refer to any kind of character theme as a Leitmotif. This isn't actually how it works, though: a Leitmotif is any reoccuring musical motif representing a character, idea, or event. The keyword here is reoccuring: on the Video Games page there are examples given of a music theme specific to a single boss, but never appears anywhere else in the game. Since this is not a reoccuring theme it's not a leitmotif.

SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#2: Feb 7th 2015 at 1:46:13 AM

That seems like a case for removing misused examples. Without some concrete evidence, I can't allow a Repair Shop topic on it.

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