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* This trope pops up every now and then in the ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' soundtrack: such as the intro to [[http://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/chorale-for-jaspers-2 "Chorale For Jaspers"]] (the opening of which has been quoted in many other songs) and an Asian-themed variation in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xm1r294qQrk&feature=related "Even in Death"]].
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* ''VideoGame/HollowKnight'' uses a strings-focused DarkReprise of its main theme during the final phase of the battle with the eponymous [[TragicMonster Hollow Knight]]. This arrangement is also used for the [[MeaningfulName aptly-named]] [[BrutalBonusLevel Path of Pain]] added with the ''Grimm Troupe'' expansion.
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* In the 2009 ''Film/StarTrek'', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-7c0U9t9oc This]] is the music that plays during the opening CurbStompBattle / HeroicSacrifice.
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* Creator/CirqueDuSoleil's ''Theatre/{{Volta}}'' has a major TearJerker example during "The Bee and the Wind", in which the WomanInWhite performs an electric violin solo, adding a OneWomanWail in the last third, while a BMX flatland rider and a ballet dancer re-enact Waz's childhood memories of bicycling with his mom.
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* In 2009 ''Film/SherlockHolmes'' film, Watson gets one of these when [[spoiler:caught in an explosion]].
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Compare with OneWomanWail, which is often used in the same way. See also LonelyPianoPiece. See MoodMotif.
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Subtrope of SimpleScoreOfSadness. Compare with OneWomanWail, which is often used in the same way. See also LonelyPianoPiece. See MoodMotif.
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* The climax of ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'' features [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aep6kkAvnU4 I Feel You]], full of bittersweet splendor, when [[spoiler:Vision allows a tearful Wanda to destroy the Mind Stone keeping him alive as a last-ditch HeroicSacrifice to stop [[BigBad Thanos]]]], all while the rest of the Avengers desperately try to HoldTheLine.
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Whoever put this misremembered; that fight-scene had a Lonely Piano Piece, no string instruments.
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** As the Doctor is [[spoiler: forced into [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E12ThePandoricaOpens the Pandorica]]]], only the [[SoundtrackDissonance triumphant strings]] can be heard.
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* ''Film/{{Platoon}}''. Sgt. Elias' death scene used Samuel Barber's ''Adagio for Strings''. See it on [=YouTube=], [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ue8VS-bcj88 starting at 2:00]].
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* ''Film/{{Platoon}}''. Sgt. Elias' death scene used Samuel Barber's ''Adagio for Strings''. See it on [=YouTube=], [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ue8VS-bcj88 starting at 2:00]]. The piece is used at several other points in the film.
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* ''Videogame/SkiesOfArcadia'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3k0hWdEk04 Legend]], which gradually builds up to a rearrangement of part of the main theme
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* "Hero of the Past" from ''VideoGame/BionicCommando 2009'' is a [[DarkReprise sad strings arrangement]] of the Area 5 theme from the NES game and its remake.
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* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6IPtRIDzoA Aurora's theme]] from ''VideoGame/ChildOfLight''.
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** "Rue and Woe" of ''2''[='s=] "High Charity Suite", reused for Miranda's death in ''Halo 3'', is a prime example, as is the solemn strings in Respite.
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** Rue and Woe of the High Charity Suite, reused for Miranda's death in ''Halo 3'', is a prime example, as is the solemn strings in Respite.
** Dust & Echoes / Wake Me When you Need Me.
** The second part of "Ashes" from ''VideoGame/HaloReach'' uses it alongside {{lonely piano|Piece}}.
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* Final episode of ''MaisonIkkoku'' had the original opening song play in the background in a string version.
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* "True" and "Theme of Laura Reprise" from ''VideoGame/SilentHill2'' use both this and TheLonelyPiano.
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* Shows up several times in TheLastOfUs, most notably during [[spoiler: the sequence after Joel has grabbed Ellie and is trying to escape the hospital. The particular piece of score used is found in the last minute and a half of All Gone (No Escape)]].
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* In ''VideoGame/OriAndTheBlindForest'', prior to the restoration of the Element of Waters, the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1eA4MK6VXw Thornfelt Swamp]] has a somber cello soundtrack along with [[LonelyPianoPiece lonely piano]].
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* ''VideoGame/MayPayne 2: The Fall of Max Payne'' and ''VideoGame/MaxPayne3'' both feature [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZfaSNoZ6L0 a melancholy strings arrangement]] of the first game's main theme.
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** Season 5's "Jenkins" uses the same piece when Robin turns the tables on Ted's class's drinking game, and during the resulting hangover.
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* ''WesternAnimation/ThePrinceOfEgypt'' uses this to truly [[TearJerker heart-rending effect]] after Moses has confronted [[AntiVillain Pharaoh Rameses]] who's son has just died in the tenth plague of Egypt.
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* In the 2009 ''Film/StarTrek'', [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-7c0U9t9oc This]] is the music that plays during the opening CurbStompBattle / HeroicSacrifice. Oh, yeah.
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* The ten-minute finale of Michael Mann's 1992 adaptation of ''Film/TheLastOfTheMohicans'' plays this trope for all it is worth, as seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9SEFMIBwAs here]]. [[TearJerker Bring a box of tissues.]]
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZXjdKKa3jw "The End"]] from ''Film/{{United 93}}'' is pretty much this trope in it's pure, distilled, form.
* Used several times in Casualties of War. This is the best example [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4wf-RDgRz4]] . Starts around the halfway mark. Have some tissues handy.
* Creator/DannyElfman's score for ''Film/TheWolfman2010'' definitely makes very good use of the strings. Probably as a subtle ShoutOut to the original score.
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZXjdKKa3jw "The End"]] from ''Film/{{United 93}}'' is pretty much this trope in it's pure, distilled, form.
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