Hiss Before Fleeing: Difference between revisions

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Maybe it wants to frighten the heroes away, or just wants to vent some rage at being beaten up by mere humans. Whatever the case, it's [[Villain Exit Stage Left]]! Mostly, it's animal monsters that do this, though vampires and aliens are also fond of hissing before fleeing. Occasionally, anything that cause a burning reaction or [[Glamour Failure]] is sure to make the creature hiss before fleeing.

 

The exit counterpart to [[Roar Before Beating]]. It seems like while monsters roar to say hello, they hiss to say goodbye. This is a very common trope, possibly an [[Undead Horse Trope]]. It appears to be based on the idea that [[All Animals Are Dogs|all animals are cats]].

* ''[[Hellsing]]''. Episode 7, ''Duel'' has the scene where Vatican priests tell Integra that their paladin is about to ambush their soldiers in the subway, right when Integra and Alucard were about to kill said priests in a museum. Integra doesn't actually ''hiss'', but she does make a similar noise, give one hell of a mean glare, and promptly spins around and walks away (retreating) defiantly, followed by Alucard who does something very similar. Subversion seeing as they're the good guys.

 

* ''[[Alien]]'', possibly the [[Trope Codifier]].

* Parodied by Pee Wee Herman in ''Pee Wee's Big Adventure'': Pee Wee hisses, everyone else flees.

* {{spoiler|Frank Butterman}} of ''[[Hot Fuzz]]'' at the end of the bar scene in the movie's climax, though that was more of a growl than a hiss.

** Not more like a growl, but that is a [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?|lion's growl]].

** Wez does this in ''[[The Road Warrior]]'', just after leaping out of the oil drillers' compound.

* The [[Gremlins]] tend to hiss at their attackers before they flee a scene.

** Shelob does something very like this trope after Sam cuts her a good one in ''The Return Of The King'', although her "voice" is pretty much nothing but hissing in any case.

 

== Literature ==

 

== [[Live Action TV]] ==

* Though he's too old to flee, Gormogon's mentor on ''[[Bones]]'' hisses viciously at Brennen and Booth when they confront him at a nursing home, then "retreats" into sullen (feigned?) senility.

* ''Angel'' and ''Buffy'' both did this in their earier episodes, though both waned shortly into their respective runs.

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

* Alma does it in the second ''[[First Encounter Assault Recon]]'' game, after you fight off her rape attempts.

* Mileena in ''Mortal Kombat'' does this when she is tagged out in a two-on-two match.

 

== Web Original ==

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

* Played for laughs in ''[[South Park]]'' in the episode where Butters thought he'd turned into a vampire. He does this because he thinks it sounds menacing. It was actually hilarious, which made it even funnier when people were genuinely shocked by it.

** Another Simpsons example is [[Evil Twin|Hugo]] in one of the Halloween specials.

** Still another example has bunch of comic convention nerds scrounging in a trash can, who look up with red eyes and hiss when a flashlight beam falls on them, causing them to run away.

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