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Line 1: {{trope}}{{Needs Image}} {{quote\|''"I don't know what that noise is, and I purposely avoided finding out. I like to think that it's [[Satan]] playing a vuvuzela in [[Hell]]."''\|'''[[The Distressed Watcher]]'''<ref>On [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QjuEWsdgEc Joker's theme] from ''[[The Dark Knight]]'', in the [http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/teamt/dw/topten/26574-top-10-best-movie-themes Top 10 Best Movie Themes] list.</ref>}} \|'''[[The Distressed Watcher]]'''<ref>On [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v{{=}}-QjuEWsdgEc Joker's theme] from ''[[The Dark Knight]]'', in the [https://web.archive.org/web/20120106174836/http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/teamt/dw/topten/26574-top-10-best-movie-themes Top 10 Best Movie Themes] list.</ref>}} What the hell is that noise?▼ '''Hell ''is'' that noise.'''▼ ▲What the hell is that noise? ▲Hell ''is'' that noise. Sometimes, sounds can be incredibly creepy. When you hear them the first time, they may not be that terrifying, but as time passes, they become more and more frightening as they gain more and more relevance. Given time, the sound comes to haunt you, even when you are not anywhere near the source. It doesn't just have to be a sentence, a catch phrase, a song, or even a laugh, it can also be a simple, mundane sound, like the creak of a chair, or a door, the sound of footsteps, [[Silent Hill\|the crackle of radio static]], the call of [[Cute but Cacophonic\|a loud little animal]], or any one of hundreds of seemingly mundane noises that suddenly take on a nightmarish relevance because of something you heard. This isn't a [[Brown Note]], a sound or image that causes actual harm to a person in a story, but rather a completely mundane noise that, due to context, will terrify you in ways that cannot be described. Line 12: Contrast [[Most Wonderful Sound (Sugar Wiki)\|Most Wonderful Sound]], and compare ''and'' contrast [[Awesome Music (Sugar Wiki)\|Awesome Music]]. {{noreallife\|''everything'' can be Hellish to ''somebody''.}} {{examples on subpages}}▼ ~~== [[No Real Life Examples, Please]]. ==~~ ▲{{examples}} * [[Hell Is That Noise/Advertising\|Advertising]] * [[Hell Is That Noise/Anime and Manga\|Anime and Manga]] * [[Hell Is That Noise/Film\|Film]] * [[Hell Is That Noise/Literature\|Literature]] * [[Hell Is That Noise/Live Action TV\|Live Action TV]] * [[Hell Is That Noise/Music\|Music]] * [[Hell Is That Noise/Video Games\|Video Games]] * [[Hell Is That Noise/Webcomics\|Webcomics]] * [[Hell Is That Noise/Web Original\|Web Original]] * [[Hell Is That Noise/Western Animation\|Western Animation]] ~~----~~ ~~== Miscellaneous ==~~ * The [[Ur Example]] may very well come from [[Classical Mythology]]. The god Pan loved to scare the shit out of lonely travelers by hiding nearby and letting out a bloodcurdling scream. Ever wonder where we get the word "panic?" Now you know. ** Pan was also pretty much the [[Family Guy\|Glenn Quagmire]] of ancient Greece, except [[But You Screw One Goat!\|with the body of a goat]] [[Squick\|from the waist down]]. So his cry didn't just sound horrible, it also warned people that [[Double Standard Rape (Divine on Mortal)\|they were going to get raped]] if they didn't run like hell. * The shrill, piercing factory whistle in [[Stephen Sondheim]]'s ''[[Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (theatre)\|Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street]]'' is first used to make the audience jump and shut up in time for the opening number. Every subsequent use of the thing gets more and more hardcore - Sweeney's first kill, for instance - until the final use of the factory whistle coincides with {{spoiler\|[[The Woobie\|Toby]] killing the main character in the world's creepiest [[Freak-Out]]}}. Yeah, you're still going to jump when you hear it on the soundtrack later. ** And for those who haven't heard it, it's ''[[Most Annoying Sound\|really]]'' [[Most Annoying Sound\|shrill and piercing.]] If you're listening to it on your iPod with earbuds in, the sheer [[Buffy-Speak\|high-pitchedness]] of it will make you jump out of your skin no matter how many times you've heard it and how much you're expecting it. * In Japan, the "Hells" ("Jigoku") is a term used for several groups of hot springs, including some found in the southern towns of Beppu and Unzen. In the latter, they are so called not only because of their extremely high temperature, but because the sound they make is said, in local folklore, to be the voices of the damned rising from the earth. You'd hope that it was just a figurative coincidence, but nope; the boiling alive of criminals and Christians during Japan's historical purges is well documented, and the screams of those unfortunate victims would certainly have been heard by nearby townspeople (not the least of which because the steam and fog the hot springs and the area's climate produce would help sound carry farther than normal). * For Amber Alerts, some locations signal it with [http://www.missingkids.com/en_US/other/amberalert.wav this] noise. * If you've been to enough acquaintance's line of duty funerals, the song "Amazing Grace" and seven guns shot three times in succession can easily become this. * Air-raid and other sirens. They run them for civil-defense and other emergency drills from time to time in several places, including Russia, Israel, and some parts of the US (for instance, at 1:00 PM on the first Saturday of the month in Michigan). {{reflist}} [[Category:~~Index~~{{PAGENAME}}]]▼ [[Category:~~YMMV~~Diabolical ~~Trope~~Plots]] [[Category:Horror Tropes]]▼ [[Category:~~Diabolical Plots~~Index]]▼ [[Category:Music Tropes]] [[Category:~~Hell~~Sound IsFX ~~That Noise~~Tropes]]▼ [[Category:The Index Is Watching You]] [[Category:~~Sound~~YMMV ~~FX Tropes~~Trope]] ▲[[Category:Horror Tropes]] ▲[[Category:Index]] ▲[[Category:Hell Is That Noise]] ~~[[Category:No Real Life Examples, Please]]~~ ▲[[Category:Diabolical Plots]]