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* ''VideoGame/FreddyFazbearsPizzeriaSimulator'': Played for BlackComedy in the Ball Pit playtesting minigames, where Helpy must jump from a springboard to land in said ball pit below. While the minigame's tone is just as lighthearted as the pizzeria tycoon half of each ingame day, causing Helpy to miss will result in him hitting the floor and [[MoodWhiplash breaking his back with a nasty crunch]]. The music immediately stops playing at that moment, with poor Helpy lying motionless on the floor for a few silent, uncomfortable seconds before suddenly [[SnapBack snapping back]] to good shape like nothing happened.

* Played with in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'': In the boss fight with [[spoiler:Alexander Prime]] there are several moments where time gets stopped completely and the players are frozen - the BGM isn't cut entirely but it's replaced for the duration with a quiet track and a beeping noise, before picking up where it left off when time resumes flowing normally.

* ''VideoGame/ForgetMeNotMyOrganicGarden'': After Irene's BluntHonesty rejection of the doctor Man's feelings for her, this happens during this sequence:

'''Man:''' Ha...haha. I und..understand. I'll go home and cool my head. W-well at least you told me before the operation. Well, take care...

* The LiveActionTV/ComedyCentralRoastOfPamelaAnderson starts with a music video called ''What We Like About Pam'' consisting of [[VideoFullOfFilmClips footage and images from all over Pam's career]] set to a Main/{{medley}} of rock songs. After a sudden build up set to [[Music/OKGo So Damn Hot]] ''What We Like About Pam'''s music suddenly cuts off as we see [[spoiler: a giant Pamela Anderson devour a dude]] and strut away. The cherry on top is the music ending with a short yell, which in context makes it come across as [[spoiler: the guy getting eaten's death scream.]]

* ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry'': In the Onikakushi chapter, when Keiichi questions Rena for the first time about whether anything strange occured during the abandoned Dam Construction Project, the music cuts out the moment she answers with a [[BluntNo Blunt No]], turning the otherwise innocent-seeming answer creepy. [[spoiler:The fact that this very first incident of something being off about her happens through the music, rather than in-universe, is one of the many hints that the Chapter is shown [[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness Through The Eyes Of Madness]].]]

* WesternAnimation/RenAndStimpy, [[Recap/RenAndStimpy2x09TheGreatOutdoorsTheCatThatLaidTheGoldenHairball The Cat That Laid the Golden Hairball]]: The HardWorkMontage of Stimpy licking and hwarfing up hairballs while Ren stamps them is set to an upbeat, jaunty tune. While the song and montage are at their fastest pace it all comes to a sudden stop as [[spoiler: Ren stamps an unconscious, licked clean Stimpy's ass.]] It even has a RecordNeedleScratch in the ''pvvvvvt'' sound of [[spoiler: Stimpy's butt cheeks getting smashed by the stamp.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/WordGirl'': In the episode "Eight Legs vs. Two-Brains", The suspenseful music that plays as Dr. Two-Brains is cowering from Shaggy stops when [=WordGirl=] points out that Shaggy isn't even doing anything.

* ''Series/{{Arrow}}'': In the 9th Episode of season 3, entitled "The Climb", Oliver must face Ra's Al Ghul in a duel to the death using swords. The fight begins with Ra's unarmed while Oliver has two blades. Ra's dominates the fight, taking one of Oliver's blades during the battle. Oliver seems outmatched when music of worry starts to play as our hero is held to a standstill at the end of a sword at around 40:43... suddenly at 40:48 Oliver uses his remaining sword to parry Ra's blade and mount an offensive. The music of concern gives way to optimistic music. Oliver is mounting his comeback and the song has almost gone full-on Arrow theme music.... which is abruptly stopped when at 40:53 Ra's uses his bare hand to stop Oliver's sword mid-swing. Ra's punches him in the throat, slices his abdomen, monologues, stabs him through the chest, and kicks him off the side of a mountain. [[OurHeroIsDead Oliver dies from his injuries]]. [[DeusExMachina He gets better.]]
* PlayedForLaughs in ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' "The Zeppo" when Faith seduces Xander in a montage of pretty tv sex with mood music playing over writhing sheets reflected in a tv screen, post-coital cuddling - which comes to an abrupt halt when she shoves him half-dressed out the door. There's a {{beat}} where the only sound is crickets chirping. Then Xander walks away.
-->'''Faith:''' That was great. I gotta shower.
* ''Series/DoctorWho'': In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E12ThePandoricaOpens "The Pandorica Opens"]], as the Universe is destroyed the background music stops, mid-note.

* In ''Film/LiveForeverAsYouAreNowWithAlanResnick'', upbeat background music plays, as would be expected during an infomercial. However, whenever Alan's digital clone Teddy speaks up, the tone has a temporary shift from comedic to unsettling, and it's underscored with the background music being replaced with a subtle ambiance. Once these scenes are cut, the normal music comes back.
* ''Film/MayIPleaseEnter'':
** The Cowboy narrates over an upbeat montage of him seeing the house, only for the music to suddenly turn eerie and ambient when they're in the hallway, making things feel all the more unsettling even before the scene takes a turn into SurrealHorror.
** Later, Amy and John show off their collection of "animated sayings". The music suddenly goes quiet the Cowboy is told they got these "animated sayings" online.
** The trio are enjoying some snacks and conversation, when the music- and the conversation itself- goes silent after the Cowboy brings up politics.
* In ''Film/UneditedFootageOfABear'', one of the first signs that something is very wrong is when the cheerful ad music suddenly fades away, leaving nothing but the sounds of Donna's car and the ad-announcer's voice coming quietly through the radio.

* WesternAnimation/RenAndStimpy, Recap/RenAndStimpy2x09TheGreatOutdoorsTheCatThatLaidTheGoldenHairball The Cat That Laid the Golden Hairball]] : The HardWorkMontage of Stimpy licking and hwarfing up hairballs while Ren stamps them is set to an upbeat, jaunty tune. While the song and montage are at their fastest pace it all comes to a sudden stop as [[spoiler: Ren stamps an unconscious, licked clean Stimpy's ass.]] It even has a RecordNeedleScratch in the ''pvvvvvt'' sound of [[spoiler: Stimpy's butt cheeks getting smashed by the stamp.]]

* WesternAnimation/RenAndStimpy, Recap/RenAndStimpy2x09TheGreatOutdoorsTheCatThatLaidTheGoldenHairball The Cat That Laid the Golden Hairball]]: The HardWorkMontage of Stimpy licking and hwarfing up hairballs while Ren stamps them is set to an upbeat, jaunty tune. While the song and montage are at their fastest pace it all comes to a sudden stop as [[spoiler: Ren stamps an unconscious, licked clean Stimpy's ass.]] It even has a RecordNeedleScratch in the ''pvvvvvt'' sound of [[spoiler: Stimpy's butt cheeks getting smashed by the stamp.]]

* In ''Film/TheOtherGuys'', Chris Danson and P. K. Highsmith are chasing after a group of crooks when they end up on a rooftop with the criminals escaping. They decide to "leap for the bushes" and jump off the rooftop. As they do, Music/FooFighters' "My Hero" plays as they fall [[spoiler:and cuts out when the two hit the pavement with a thunderous THUD.]]

* The LiveActionTV/ComedyCentralRoastOfPamelaAnderson starts with a music video called ''What We Like About Pam'' consisting of [[VideoFullOfFilmClips footage and images from all over Pam's career]] set to a Main/{{medley}} of rock songs. After a sudden build up set to [[Music/OKGo So Damn Hot]] ''What We Like About Pam'''s music suddenly cuts off as we see [[spoiler: a giant Pamela Anderson devour a dude]] and strut away. The cherry on top is the music ending with a short yell, which in context makes it come across as [[spoiler: the eaten dude's death scream.]]

* ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'': Normally, the music never stops playing - rather to convey the mood it changes in accordance. However, during one of the summer events, Bedivere and Ushiwakamaru are having a conversation about the other Knights of the Round Table unleashing their inner children at the sight of the ocean. Ushiwakamaru then asks Bedivere what happened to his inner child, to which he responds that [[spoiler:since [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld his journey was longer than theirs]], it's probably [[IronWoobie hurried deeper inside]]]]. The music stops right there, to emphasize the completely unexpected MoodWhiplash in what's otherwise a humourous event, and even the protagonist can only respond with VisibleSilence.

* In ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII'', during the prologue with Roxas and his friends — he sees the sixth wonder and tries to go on the mysterious train. His friends stop him just as he was about to step on and the music cuts to reveal the train wasn’t actually there at all.

* The LiveActionTV/ComedyCentralRoastOfPamelaAnderson starts with a music video called ''What We Like About Pam'' consisting of [[VideoFullOfFilmClips footage and images from all over Pam's career]] set to a Main/{{medley}} of rock songs. Aafter a sudden build up set to [[Music/OKGo So Damn Hot]] ''What We Like About Pam'''s music suddenly cuts off as we see [[spoiler: a giant Pamela Anderson devour a dude]] and strut away. The cherry on top is the music ending with a short yell, which in context makes it come across as [[spoiler: the eaten dude's death scream.]]

* ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'':
** ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheReturnOfTheKing The Return of the King]]'' uses this in the Battle of Minas Tirith. As the Rohirrim charge towards the [[WarElephants oliphaunt]]-riders of Harad, there is heroic music, which then stops abruptly the moment the horsemen are swept away or trampled by the gigantic war beasts.
** In one of the many, many extras for ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheTwoTowers The Two Towers]]'', the music swells heroically and then abruptly fades out as Billy Boyd wearily recounts his experience filming the scenes with the Treebeard puppet:
--->'''Billy Boyd:''' They used backwards bicycle seats [for us to sit in], and for that they found ''[[GroinAttack the most uncomfortable bicycle seats in New Zealand.]]''\\
'''Dom Monaghan:''' I don't think Weta had any concept of men having testicles, and by the time we were through I didn't either.''

* In ''Film/TheOtherGuys'', Chris Danson and P. K. Highsmith are chasing after a group of crooks when they end up on a rooftop with the criminals escaping. They decide to "leap for the bushes" and jump off the rooftop. As they do, Music/FooFighters' "My Hero" plays as they fall [[spoiler:and cuts out when the two hit the pavement with a thunderous THUD.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Invincible}}'': In TheStinger to the first episode, the music suddenly stops when [[spoiler:[[BitchInSheepsClothing Omni-Man]] kills Red Rush]]. The rest of the scene plays out without a soundtrack, just the sounds of [[spoiler:the remaining Guardians being ruthlessly massacred]].

* ''VideoGame/Minecraft'' use a very minimal music that briefly disappears in silent after it finished playing. This is because the game's music is minimally composed, and wherever the player go or explore the world in either Survival or Creative, music will always pause in the background if the music stopped. This can also be applied when changing game modes through commands while playing.