He orders them to stop breathing, and finally he is beset by an angry (and loud) mob. Unfortunately his quest for absolute silence reaches a head when his ears become so sensitive that he can hear the people breathing. A variation on this happens in one of the EC Comics stories, wherein a king's daughter falls to her death while he is enjoying himself at a party, and her scream keeps ringing in his ears afterwards in every sound he hears, starting with the local church bells (he has them melted down), the movements of the castle inhabitants (he has them wrap their feet in soft cloth), and even the sounds of people working in town (he has them cease working).In-Universe Examples Only: Example subpages: Compare and contrast Scare Chord, where the audience learns to fear the music. Contrast Most Wonderful Sound, which people are happy to hear. Sinister Scraping Sound is an intentional, psych-out type of hellish noise if a noise foreshadowing a threat is produced by something attached to, or ingested by, that threat, it's The Croc Is Ticking.Ĭompare Terrible Ticking. See also Hearing Voices, which can also be this depending on what kind of voices they are, and Nothing Is Scarier, which is almost the Visible Silence version of this. This trope is about the psychological effect of a repeated noise to the character(s) in the story. This isn't a Brown Note, a sound or image that causes involuntary action or harm. Better pray it doesn't mean that You Are Already Dead. Often times it signals the coming of a yet-unseen threat, usually one you don't want to be anywhere near you, and hearing it is more than enough of a sign to tread carefully, brace yourself, or run. The sound may be made by the non-living, such as the creak of a chair, a door, a bouncing ball, the crackle of radio static, or any one of hundreds of other seemingly mundane noises. The sound that terrifies the character can be made by the living, such as footsteps, a laugh, the call of a loud little animal. The trope isn't limited to a sentence, a catch phrase, or a song. Nightmarish relevance because of the setting. Given time, the sound comes to haunt them, even away from the source. The sound gets scarier as it gains more and more relevance. When they hear the sound once, it may not be that terrifying, but as time passes, they become more and more frightened. What the hell is that noise? That noise is hell.Ī character within the story hears something odd.
Powell describing the Reaper horn, Mass Effect
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