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A theme or element from a work's soundtrack (usually a movie) that gets reused in another work. It may either be an original piece, or a preexisting one that wasn't widely known until being used as soundtrack.
See also .
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Anime and Manga
- .
- " in one of its episodes, though this is thematically relevant since it's the song a character's father used to play on his radio station in the past.
- The second Ocean dub of .
- In addition, original.
- TV anime.
- .
- The music created for .
- , etc., reuse many songs between each other, sometimes one show's theme tune even appears in another.
- :
- Speaking of , which had preceded Sailor Moon in its timeslot and even featured much of its initial staff.
- The English dub of .
- It's common for certain , when the score was done by Yasuharu Takanashi.
Films — Animation
- :
- The music played during the scene from
- The 60s and 70s era Disney movies (Scored by George Bruns) had a re-occuring "sad" motif. Its first appearance is in 101 Dalmatians, when after the puppies have been kidnapped and the humans have exhausted all legal options, Pongo tells Perdita that it's now up to them. In Sword in the Stone, it plays when Wart is alone in the destroyed kitchen after being told he won't be going to London, and in , it plays during the scene where Prince John is fuming about "The Phony King of England" after having thrown the entire town in jail for it, to name a few examples.
- The overture for was originally written for the 1964 New York World's Fair as music for an exhibit of miniatures at the Ford Pavilion based on different parts of the world.
- The music played during Baloo's during the ending where the seven dwarfs put Snow White's (supposedly) dead body into the glass coffin.
- And like 101 Dalmations, The Sword in the Stone and Robbin Hood, it also used the "sad" motif score by George Bruns, but unlike them, it uses it twice.
- About halfway through can be heard when Genie can be seen looking at a recipe for "Alaskan King Crab", causing him to pull Sebastian out of said cookbook.
- "King of Pride Rock" from .
- Compare the soundtracks of .
- .
- A few background music cues in . Both shows were created by Jumbo Pictures and were co-composed by Dan Sawyer (Sawyer worked with Fred Newman on Doug and Mark Watters on Dalmatians).
- 's score for The Kingdom.
- During the scene in when Sulley thinks Boo is going through a trash compactor was re-used by Randy Newman. It isn't fully re-used but it sounds very similar to it.
- The " called "Life's Too Short".
- whenever something bad happens.
- The Korean .
Films — Live-Action
- Akira Ifukube, one of made it easy to listen and compare soundtracks.
- The main theme of the Japanese movie Yumeji was reused as the main character's .
- in the soundtrack for Once Upon a Forest.
- He also re-used parts of the Willow soundtrack yet again in .
- "Ripley's Rescue" from .
- Parts of the track "Resolution And Hyperspace" from - the original, not the remake).
- Also for Aliens, due to Horner being so rushed he was unable to complete the score to his satisfaction, two tracks from score are used during the scene where Ripley and Newt flee from the Queen ("The Recovery" and "Face Hugger").
- For the film adaptation of movie.
- Horner was notorious for his repetition - certainly all composers do so, but rarely to the extent that he did.
- And indeed Horner's score for turns up in several Roger Corman efforts in the 1980s.
- when the eponymous alien sees a child trick-or-treating in a Yoda costume.
- John Williams was too busy to properly do the music on at different points in the series.)
- When the Boggart turns into a giant snake in Prisoner of Azkaban, John Williams quotes the snake theme from .
- trilogy.
- Roll Tide, from .
- "Too Many Notes, Not Enough Rests" from Drop Zone and "He's A Pirate" from the movies.
- have similar soundtracks. Justified in that all three films were directed by the Scott brothers (Riddley and Tony), and all films used the talents of Lisa Gerrard's vocals for several of the arrangements used in all three films.
- Elliot Goldenthal recycled a track from , but recyciling the themes for Two-Face and Chase Meridian for Mr. Freeze and Poison Ivy, respectively.
- "Snowflake Music" is a track by Mark Mothersbaugh from the movie , also directed by Wes Anderson.
- The music for the "Jews in Space" segment of .
- .
- All of the following .
- Soundtrack from Universal's serials.
- .
- Much of this score was based on recycled cues. John Murphy's original score had been rejected and after that, two more scores were rejected before a score was finally settled on shortly before opening. In the end, works from five different composers (Murphy, ) became the score.
- If you listen, you'll notice that "Building the Crate" and "The Chickens are Revolting" from are in this one.
- Five tracks from due to the fact that the actual score (written by Christophe Beck) was not finished in time for the release of the film.
- 's Academy Award nomination for Best Original Score (emphasis on the original) was withdrawn when the Academy realized Nina Rota had recycled themes from scores he had written for other movies. Most notably, the love theme was taken from an earlier movie called Fortunella.
- The ).
- 's score resembles Morricone's Bluebeard.
- The films and the 1985 film King Solomon's Mines without his permission. The latter film also had additional music based on Goldsmith's work.
- Goldsmith himself usually averted this trope like a champ, but there were exceptions:
- His main theme for the . It's been speculated that as that projects were scored during a difficult time in his life (he was going through a divorce, and his mother had passed away), reusing the theme for a relatively minor project could have helped him get out of a compositional hole.
- The main theme for The Russia House had previously been written for . The third time was the charm.
- , scored by Basil Poledouris, used a track from his score for No Man's Land.
- The iconic piece "Chi Mai" has been used several times:
- The 1978 BBC sci-fi serial An Englishman's Castle
- The British TV show The Times and Life of David Lloyd George.
- Used as a (1981).
- It was later recycled again in an entirely unrelated TV commercial for dog food.
- The dog food commercial was itself parodied in , by reusing the track yet again.
- The Outing uses the intro to the theme from as its opening credits music.
- reused much of the soundtrack from The Wasp Woman.
- The for their main titles.
- In an example closer to Recycled Score, a portion of the .
- Bogus, which was scored by Rene Dupere, reused "Kalimando" from .
- The first two , but Williams found he couldn't work with director Richard Lester.
- ) although slowed down by 8 octaves.
- "Oye" from replaced him (although Silvestri and Glen Ballard did write the song "Butterfly Fly Away," which Miley and her dad sing onscreen).
- And staying with Alan Silvestri, although , most notably his main theme during the end credits and "Helicarrier" for the scene where said massive flying machine arrives to help get the citizens off the rising city before Ultron can drop it and launch his Extinction Level Event.
- , among others).
- The movie 9/30/55, about the effect (both of which were also scored by Rosenman).
- The songs "Arrival of the Birds" and "Transformation" by The Cinematic Orchestra (from The Crimson Wing: Mystery of the Flamingos) were reused in the soundtrack for .
- . Fitting, as he previously mocked Logan by telling the audience he was going to die, too.
- The as "Confusion".
- Leonard Rosenman reused portions of his "Fellowship" leitmotif from .
- The 1998 movie Recoil reuses music from , as both were made by PM Entertainment.
- Bruce Broughton's main theme for .
Live-Action TV
- The theme from the original Japanese version of movie soundtrack.
- Some of the soundtrack from .
- The opening theme to for Picard in episodes scored by McCarthy. He also favored using the TOS fanfare in his episode scores, while Ron Jones often incorporated the TMP theme.
- Some music cues from have fallen under this trope:
- A remix of the theme cropped up at some point.
- The theme to is presently used as a new-car cue.
- Another cue is recycled from Edd Kalehoff's "Grandeur" news music pack, made for the CBS flagship, WCBS-2 in New York, in 2000.
- An early new-car cue became the theme to also used the last bars as a victory cue. Finally, Feud retired that theme in 1994, but brought it back in the 2000s.
- The Bob Cobert theme used on the original Price from 1961-65 (titled either "A Gift For Giving" or "Window Shopping", depending on who you ask) would be used on two NBC games afterward Snap Judgment (1967) and You're Putting Me On (1969).
- . The same theme was later used on the Australian version of Family Feud in the 1980s.
- An early prize cue from
- The a year after the former's cancellation. Both shows even had virtually-identical openings. Meanwhile, the Eubanks/Rafferty version also recycled the MG/HS theme as a car theme.
- The theme from 's Quicksilver as its theme song); all three we co-produced by Scott Stone and/or David Stanley.
- Three of the )
- The music score by Barry Gray for Gerry Anderson's series did this as well until Gray was replaced with Derek Wadsworth in Season 2.
- Bob Stewart recycled the theme from his short-lived 1970s game Blankety Blanks on an equally short-lived game from the 1980s, Double Talk.
- Similarly, the "plonk plonk" timer on and Double Talk.
- The theme to another one of Stewart's shows, , was later used on This Week in Baseball.
- In reverse, the Stewart series , not because it was bad).
- For a set of tournament episodes, .
- used many of the musical themes created for that program, but without any on-screen credit to the original composer, David Michael Frank.
- ? used many of the same background cues as its sister Nick show, Wild and Crazy Kids. Both were produced by Woody Fraser and used music composed by Alan Ett.
- Many, many, MANY TV shows from the '50s to the '80s reused music cues, often (but not always) written for the actual series. The most dramatic case was , which didn't have any episodes scored at all - it relied on a specially written library and CBS stock music.note
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- .)
- 's score.
- The for the One World Trade Center observation deck.
- In addition, the minisode Time Crash reused much of the incidental music from Seasons 19 through 21 as a nod to the Fifth Doctor, who guest starred in the minisode.
- Because of a composers' strike in 1971, ). Mancini was understandably not happy about it, since it had been done without his knowledge or permission, and sued the producers. (He won.)
- Several of the background music for .
- Ireland's Fittest Family used tracks from .
- The in a pair of episodes as a "silly scene" leitmotif.
- The UK version of .
- .
- reuses music from PM Entertainment's other movies such as Pure Danger, The Sweeper, and others.
Music
- In the video for .
- (the "Hunting Cantata"). The thirteenth movement was tapped and arranged twice, first as the basis for the Canonic Trio Sonata in F for Violin, Oboe, and Continuo (which is itself often appended to the end of the original movement as a postlude), and then as the second movement in the religious cantata Also hat Gott die Welt geliebt. The seventh movement was also reused in that same cantata as its fourth movement. And finally, the opening of the fifteenth movement also opens the first movement of Man singet mit Freuden vom Sieg.
Professional Wrestling
- was notorious for doing this:
- Although WWE engages in this less often than WCW did, it's still been known to happen
- .
- 's theme song originally was written for Ernest "The Cat" Miller. Now it belongs to Xavier Woods.
- video package.
- Even ), meanwhile, was an instrumental version of Bonnie Tyler's song "Ravashing" with chants of "Hulk! Hulk!" overlaid.
- .
- , but Storm left NXT before it could be used.
- This happens slightly more with WWE Divas, with the occasional piece of music, such as seemingly being passed around at random.
- .
- uses a song called "Party," which was originally used by Maria back during her debut in 2004.
- herself later used a song called "With Legs Like That," which was intended for Stacy Kiebler, who left before it could be used. This created something of an artifact since, while Kiebler is known for being exceptionally leggy, Maria wasn't, and in fact often wrestled in long pants.
- .
- 's theme "Not Man Enough For Me" was also previously used by Torrie Wilson. Then Layla used it after Michelle left.
- Even first entrance track was later used by ODB.
- According to "Not Dead Yet" as an entrance theme, which long time fans would recognize as belonging to TJ Perkins beforehand. The more distinctive "Feel The Rush" was used by the time they had decided to enter Rush into the Top Prospect Tournament.
- Candy White debuted in LLF using a theme previously used by Lady Jaguar, , and White switched to her Pandora Pecadora gimmick not long afterwards, suggesting it was just a one time thing.
Puppet Shows
- Gerry Anderson's episode "The Big Gun".
Theatre
- wrote the score to Wonderful Town in a hurry, and presumably saved time and effort by lifting a few parts from earlier works:
- The refrain of "Conga!" was previously music for the scene change to the Congacabana in .
- The vamp in "Conversation Piece" is from the jazz band piece "Prelude, Fugue and Riffs," parts of which were also incorporated into the ballet "Conquering the City."
- The Overture of The Survival of St. Joan.
- .
- Rossini's overture to .
- Jerome Kern regularly recycled songs and incidental music from older musicals into newer ones, and importing and exporting them between American and British musicals. For instance:
- In in this show, was recycled from "If We Were on Our Honeymoon," a song interpolated into the imported operetta The Doll Girl in 1913.
- The opening music from Music in the Air (1932) seems to have been originally written for Love o' Mike (1917), and had already been reused in the lost movie musical Men of the Sky (1930).
- The opening number of Sitting Pretty (1924) was a slightly altered version of "The Pergola Patrol (Is This Not a Lovely Spot?)" from The Cabaret Girl (London, 1922). "On a Desert Island With You" and "The Enchanted Train" from Sitting Pretty were in turn reused in Three Sisters (London, 1934) as "My Lover, Come Out of the Shadows" and "Dorrie Imagines."
- was recycled from incidental music for Leo Lania's play Konjunktur (Berlin, 1928).
- The .
Theme Parks
- The "Temple of the Night Hawk" roller coaster in Phantasialand (an amusement park in Germany) actually uses as the ride's background music.
Video Games
- .
- The theme of the first level of .
- The end theme in 3, albeit as part of a Metal Gear parody.
- The main theme of theme.
- Some of the levels of game. Examples include:
- "Honeybloom and Honeyhop Galaxies" = "Honeyhive Galaxy"
- "Rolling Masterpiece and Rolling Coaster Galaxies" = "Rolling Green and Rolling Gizmo Galaxies"
- "Supermassive, Mario Squared, and Twisty Trials Galaxies" = "Toy Time Galaxy"
- "Topman's Tower" = "Buoy Base Galaxy"
- "Shiverburn Galaxy" = "Freezeflame Galaxy"
- "Grandmaster Galaxy" = "Gusty Garden Galaxy", "Good Egg Galaxy", and "Bowser's Galaxy Reactor"
- "The Perfect Run" = "Comet Observatory"
- ! It's especially noticable with the Ghost House music in this game.
- . It also recycles sound effects, with his laugh sound effects coming from Wario Land 4 as well (including his elevator entrance laugh being the one heard when you enter a portal in said game).
- .
- :
- .
- Two themes from the Mega Drive (Genesis) version of Flickies Island, Green Grove Act 1 and Panic Puppet Act 1, are remixed for in Windy Valley and Twinkle Park respectively.
- When was ported to PC as part of the Sonic & Knuckles Collection, the game reused tracks several tracks, including those for Carnival Night Zone, Ice Cap Zone, and Launch Base Zone, from a prototype version of the game that was made before Michael Jackson and Brad Buxer's involvement.
- . For one instance, Secret Plant Zone Act 1 is a remix of Angel Island Zone Act 2.
- In .
- The 8-bit version of theme song for the stage Green Hills Zone, though since Sonic 2 was released first it's not reuse so much as concurrent use.
- of it plays during the ending.
- Sonic's victory theme in the , making Sonic the only Smash fighter without a rearranged victory theme.
- A least a couple tracks from .
- .
- 's no stranger to this with his soundtracks, having reused some of his compositions various times:
- The Beast Engine and Beast Ride levels in ("Facing the Inevitable" and "Buttville: The Descent", respectively).
- features a couple of tracks originally from the 1997 helicopter combat game Black Dawn as music for some of the levels: Molten Mine featured an arranged version (alongside Sonic series regular Jun Senoue) of the "Action Theme" as its BGM, while Great Megalith featured another song from Black Dawn in its original form.
- On the mention of Black Dawn and its "Action Theme", Tommy had previously reused its original version on the Nintendo 64 version of Knockout Kings 2000 as the music for the training minigames, albeit in a somewhat shortened form.
- R/C Stunt Copter featured a couple of tracks from the Earthworm Jim series, most notably the main menu music just being the ending theme from the first game but with a guy yelling "STUUUUNT COPTERRRRR!" every now and then, while some of the levels on Free Flight mode (Ruins and Easter Island) had, appropiately enough, "The Flyin' King" from Earthworm Jim 2.
- 2's revisit to the Pharcom Expo Center reuses the music from the first game. The title theme is also directly reused.
- , which used the same engine, notably "Mission 4" and "Mission 8", for Krauser and Hunk, respectively.
- . There is some original music, particularly at the very beginning and end, but fans of the previous games' music will notice a lot of familiar material.
- .
- The lower section of Afterlife features "Lo Fi Epic", which was originally composed for EA Sports Arena Football, but went unused at the time.
- reuses about half the musics from its predecessor.
- :
- , Frontline. Later, Airborne reused a number of Allied Assault and Frontline musics, such as "Snipertown", "Shipyards of Lorient" and "Clipping Their Wings".
- , the rest are all reused from previous games.
- , with many songs recieving little to no changes and very few new songs created for the games.
- The PS1 trilogy of uses the same music for all three games' ending credits, although in 2 and 3 the track is cut (shorter)
- The Enix adventure game JESUS: Kyoufu no Bio-Monster reuses the overworld theme from .
- Grant Kirkhope occasionally reuses music he wrote for canned games or :
- : Trouble in Paradise
- "Oven-Fresh Day" was the main theme for the prototype, Dream. Grant says that after the original concept for Dream was canned, he wanted a good opportunity to use the theme, and the VP series gave him an orchestra to perform it.
- "Time Flies" is based on the theme for Dream's protagonist, Edison (heard in the demo track, "Chase").
- "Time Flies" was also used in Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts for the theme Nutty Acres. Direct sampling from Chase are especially apparent in the Challenge Theme. And the beginning of "Icicle Chorus" is the post-fanfare portion of the 's "Stop 'n' Swop" areas.
- "Ripen and Bloom" (Day 7) takes direct inspiration from the "Zombie Pirate" theme of Grabbed by the Ghoulies, an earlier title Kirkhope composed for.
- The Romance Dance for the Jameleon contains a medley of recycled music that shifts from one theme to the next, tying in appropriately with the changing nature of a chameleon. All of the tracks are previous compositions from Grant Kirkhope which include Mayahem Temple from theme from Kameo: Elements of Power and the Ballroom Disco theme from Grabbed by the Ghoulies.
- :
- Parts of "Creepy Castle" are based on a level called "Prickly Pear Island" from Dream.
- In predictable fashion, the theme for Fungi Forest was previously used as the theme to Banjo-Kazooie's Fungus Forest before it was scrapped altogether. The original theme can be heard in Banjo's E3 trailer, reused practically verbatim for Donkey Kong 64.
- Tiny Kong's Tag Barrel theme is a more upbeat rendition of an early Mumbo's Mountain theme which was saved in the Ticker's Tower area for Banjo-Kazooie.
- The final battle against King K. Rool uses its bridge for the Skeleton Battle in Grabbed by the Ghoulies.
- :
- Elements of the series' theme and "Freezeezy Peak" (and DK 64's "Gloomy Galleon") can be traced to the theme for Dream's villain, Captain Blackeye.
- "Mad Monster Mansion" is based on the theme for a troll character called "Bully" (and was originally a faster-paced, -inspired piece).
- Tooty's theme is a condensed version of the theme for Dream's love interest, Madeleine.
- "Atlantis" from uses a slowed-down version of the melody from Dream's map screen.
- : Trouble in Paradise
- Fellow Rareware composer Graeme Norgate recycled the Boss tune from Donkey Kong Land as an upbeat ranch rendition for Jade Plateau in Blast Corps. It fits surprisingly well.
- , specifically Toys In The Attic.
- and Spear of Destiny.
- Final Doom reuses many tracks from the first two games. The Plutonia Experiment does this for the entire soundtrack, while TNT: Evilution reuses several Doom II tracks.
- The E2 M2 music in Doom 1, "The Demons from Adrian's Pen", is based on one of the secret level themes from Wolfenstein 3D.
- The .
- games:
- re-arranges many pieces of BGM from the series, including the theme song, the music during the cutscenes (lifted from one of the title cards), the boss fight against Dizzy Devil (used in many episodes, but most notably "Rock 'n Roar"), the bonus game intro music (lifted from "The Weirdest Stories Ever Told" short, "Robin Hare"), the haunted mansion theme (lifted from "The ACME Home Shopping Show" short, "I Was a Teenage Bunnysitter"), the first half of the balloon level (lifted from "A Quack in the Quarks"), and the second half of the balloon level (lifted from the "How Sweetie It Is" short, "Let's Do Lunch").
- Tiny Toon Adventures 2: Trouble in Wackyland for the NES also uses the "Rock 'n Roar" music in the bumper car stage.
- Similarly, re-arranged a few pieces from the show: One of the level themes, the underwater theme, and Montana Max's level theme, the final boss theme, and the Sneezer weapon (used during "Son of the Wacko World of Sports") were all used in the show.
- The Cheetahmen theme was reused in Cheetahmen II and Syobon Action, the latter of which also used the themes from .
- .
- .
- If it's an active gets in on it.
- game.
- Since the video game adaptation of was finished before the soundtrack of the movie was fully recorded, it instead uses music from the other five movies that were made at the time.
- , namely Quake Zone Rumble/Snowblind, and Field of Screams/Blackwater Falls.
- The Ragna Rock music in producer Skaven(Peter Hajba), who was on the game's development team.
- The 's NiGHTS pinball minigame.
- Some music themes from .
- In .
- Several of the tracks in proper (there is a 'winter' track which was the music for the Frozen Highlands in Might & Magic VI, for instance).
- videogames did it multiple times:
- use the score from the original trilogy.
- While the original release of has plenty of original music, but the Gold edition replaces the entire soundtrack with the original trilogy score.
- score.
- Several characters have been reusing the same background songs since 2001, remixed appropriately in some cases. The "Suspense" theme has, in fact, appeared in every single game up to date. This is invoked in the last case of Apollo Justice in the segments where Phoenix Wright is the POV character, which uses almost exclusively music from the first games.
- 2 re-used tracks from the first game for the sub-bosses, save for newcomer Baek, who got an original theme.
- The remix of I Remember by 2.
- The title Epic Adventures from .
- .
- .)
- :
- According to "Bonetrousle" were all composed for an unidentified earlier RPG project that was never finished.
- "Fallen Down" was originally written for the fan album "I Miss You".
- "Another Medium" is a more fleshed-out remix of Toby Fox's earlier composition "Patient", which was itself based on "Doctor" from the soundtrack.
- Of course, Toby Fox's ) is used here too as the final boss theme in the No Mercy route.
- The Magician's battle theme in introduction.
- tunes as Gammie Boysulay's theme.
- boss theme. Yoko Shinomura composed the soundtrack of both games.
- The BGM of "Virtual Insanity", the final world of , is an almost-identical arrangement of the BGM for the first game's final level "Laughin' Jokin' Numbnuts", albeit with 16-bit instruments. The boss theme is also mostly recycled.
- Several tracks in are the exact same songs used in the first game, just used in different circumstances.
- Orta makes liberal use of songs from Panzer Dragoon Saga during its side story about Iva Demilcol. Saga itself reuses a track from Panzer Dragon Zwei when Edge has to fight the final boss from that game, the Guardian Dragon.
- In SC.
- A large portion of the music in is reused in Red Faction II.
- A cover of the general usage score track "Cold War" by Chris Payne and Paul Rogers is used for both the .
- straight up lifted its entire soundtrack from both Mystical Ninja: Starring Goemon and Goemon's Great Adventure. And we're are not taking about remixes but the completely unadulterated original versions of the tracks. This ties with the plot of the game as the villain of the piece is an alien obsessed with recycling that plans to recycle Japan itself and it's up to Goemon and his friends to stop him.
- On the initial launch of , wild Pokemon, when encountered at night, share the same music as the day encounter. An update later changes it to have a night encounter theme and a night overworld theme. Also, March 2018 adds quests, and some of the rewards are wild Pokemon. The music that plays during these quest encounters have the same music that plays when you are given the bonus challenge to catch a Raid Boss Pokemon. This extends to Moltres, who is encountered when a player achieves a Research Breakthrough before May 2018, which in turn leads to Moltres appearing outside of its Raid encounters, and Zapdos, who is also encountered via Research Breakthroughs starting in May.
- All the characters appearing in .
- , an earlier game the developer released on itch.io.
- , features an extensive soundtrack that includes reprises of pretty much all of its songs.
- The versions of the games, most notably "Feta Cheese" from Need for Speed II as it was the sole song used for almost all of Road Rash (the Redwood Forest track used "Power Slide" from The Need for Speed instead) and all of Road Rash II. Road Rash 3 used more songs, most of them from Need for Speed III: Hot Pursuit, and some of the menu music on EA Replay (which also plays on Road Rash 3's Brazil track) included a couple of songs from the original NFS ("Rampant" and a shortened "Funkn' Bubba").
- The VS. player fight music in the original is a rearrangement of Street Smart's first stage theme.
- Music from the 1988 NES game Wayne Gretzky Hockey was reused in the 1991 NES adaptation of . * Both games were released by Bethesda Softworks & THQ.
- Evolution Skateboarding featured a couple of tracks reused from . The giant spider boss on the Castle level featured "Dancing in Phantasmic Hell", and after unlocking Simon Belmont it also unlocks Rondo of Blood's arrangement of "Vampire Killer" as one of the in-game songs.
- While most of the tracks from Walt Disney World Quest: Magical Racing Tour use music from the rides they're based on, three tracks had songs recycled from other, completely unrelated games. The DINOSAUR track uses the theme from the Prehistory Channel level of . The Blizzard Beach track uses a slightly rearranged version of Totally Scrooged from Gex 3: Deep Cover Gecko. The Rock 'n' Roller Coaster track uses the theme from the Aqueous Major level of space shooter Total Eclipse. All four games were developed by Crystal Dynamics.
- Tim Follin's original score for the game adaptation of was later reused for the "Funk" music set on Ford Racing 2. Both games came out in 2003 (within months of each other, even) and were both by the same publisher, Empire Interactive. Coincidentally, one of the vehicles featured on Ford Racing 2 is the Gran Torino, albeit without the same paintjob as its famed Starsky & Hutch counterpart.
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Web Animation
- A lot of videos made with tend to use music from other works, usually from video games.
Western Animation
- Peter Bogdanovich's for both works.
- Speaking of Looney Tunes, the Ford-Lennon shorts and movies from the late 80's to the mid 90's reused music from many classic cartoons composed by Carl Stalling and Milt Franklyn.
- The 1958 .
- The 2010 series of in FIM).
- This was a regular occurence in series by , regardless of whether they make sense in the new context.
- The
- , supplemented with some new tracks by Shuki Levy and Haim Saban.
- An action scene in the third season of track "London Attack"; Brian Tyler is the composer for the series, and also scored said game.
- One episode of recycled the theme from, of all things, Britain's ITV News at Ten; titled The Awakening, it's been used since the program's debut in 1967; the version used in the episode was used from 1992 to 1999.
- A few background music cues on .
- A musical segment that played during the episode "Titan Rising" when the Titans fight against Slade's giant mechanical worms.
- Many episodes of have cues reused from The Raccoons and the Lost Star, which was produced two years before the series began in 1985.
- sequels, and both were composed by Michael Tavera.
- A matter of fact, any cartoon composed by Tavera would have a piece of music from another cartoon also composed by Tavera. (e.g. The ending scene with Sheen's inflation in the .)
- The opening theme for the cartoon adaptation of .
- The Winston Sharples background music from Famous Studios (later renamed Paramount Cartoon Studios) were repurposed by Total Television in their (season one, also outsourced to Gamma).
- In an instance of this happening in the same franchise, .
- In the Brazilian airing of . It played in the episode "The House of Shokoti" and fit the episode surprisingly well.