Basic Trope: Skeletons and bones are associated with xylophone music.
- Straight: Spooks the skeleton has a xylophone leitmotif. Sometimes he plays his own music on his ribcage.
- Exaggerated: It's a work centered around skeletons, and the entire soundtrack is played on xylophone.
- Downplayed:
- Spooks' theme contains some xylophone, but it's not featured very prominently compared to the other instruments.
- Spooks' theme is played on an instrument that is similar to a xylophone but has a different sound, like a vibraphone or glockenspiel.
- Justified: Spooks was a xylophonist before he died.
- Inverted:
- A living xylophone plays music on human bones.
- Xylophone music is associated with living people, while skeletons get a different instrument.
- Subverted: Spooks pulls out a pair of mallets... and then plays the Dramatic Timpani with them.
- Double Subverted: ...but it turns out that this was just the buildup for his xylophone solo.
- Parodied: A montage of vultures picking a corpse clean, followed by a shot of the victim's bare skeleton. The latter is accompanied with xylophone music.
- Zig-Zagged: Spooks' theme is constantly switching between xylophone and other instruments.
- Averted: The skeletons are not associated with xylophone music.
- Enforced: Xylophone music sounds silly, and it helps keep Spooks from being too scary.
- Lampshaded: "Oh look, a skeleton. I hope you like xylophone music."
- Invoked: Emperor Evulz, who wears a skull mask, is associated with xylophone music.
- Exploited: Bob plays a xylophone to make the skeletons dance in order to distract them.
- Defied: ???
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
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