It's Quiet... Too Quiet: Difference between revisions

'''Donatello:''' Look! It's Raph!

'''Michaelangelo:''' Yeah, a little ''too'' Raph!

'''Donatello:''' ''<[[Face Palm]]>'' Oh brother. }}

* A variation in ''[[Lake Placid]]'', where one character, shortly before another attack by the giant alligator, says: "I suddenly got the feeling that everything's perfectly safe".

* When Native Americans who aren't slaves show up for the first time in ''[[Aguirre, the Wrath of God]]'', the ambient sounds (birds and insects mostly) go dead. The "Emperor" makes this remark, and soon {{spoiler|a spooked horse kicks some fire onto a gunpowder barrel}}.

* In the movie ''[[The Marksman]]'', the main character runs back late to the extraction point, he can clearly hear the helicopter waiting although he's still in enemy territory, he turns around frequently watching for potential pursuers, but after a while he stops, and notices no one is chasing him. He correctly assesses he and his team have been set up, and the extraction chopper is destroyed shortly after by a traitor.

* A variation on the trope is seen in ''[[We Were Soldiers]]'' when the Mel Gibson's character arrives at a section of the American Line that's too quiet. When asked what's wrong he explains, "There's nothing wrong here...[[Genre Savvy|except that there's nothing wrong...]]"

** Later in the movie, during an especially dark night, one character starts freaking out because it's so quiet, and his commanding officer asks for a flare to see by...revealing that it was quiet because the Vietnamese soldiers were a couple of feet away, trying to sneak attack.

 

== Videogames ==

* Straight video game example: ''[[Star Fox (series)|Star FOX]] 64''.

** And kinda ruined by the fact that the game's lockon system will mark the first enemy (hidden behind an asteroid) way before the "trap" goes off.

Needless to say, they shortly fall prey to a Nod ambush. }}

* [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] in the [[Re Boot|2008]] ''[[Prince of Persia]]'' game:

'''Prince''': [[Genre Savvy|Don't say it's quiet. Don't EVER say it's quiet.]] }}

** During a boss fight in that level, the Prince might say, "I told you, ''never'' say it's quiet." If you knock the boss off a cliff, he says, "''Now'' it's quiet."

* A NPC exchange from ''[[City of Heroes]]'', where the [[Scary Dogmatic Aliens|Rikti]] have taken a human sympathizer hostage, doubles as an inversion of [[Perp Sweating]]:

{{quote|'''Rikti Captor 1:''' Status: Quiet.

'''Lk'Onik:''' [[Lampshade Hanging|...: Heh.]] }}

* From ''[[Evil Dead|Evil Dead: A Fistful of Boomstick]]'':

 

== Western Animation ==

** A lot of cartoons Butch Hartman seems to be involved with parodies this trope.

* Xandor says it in ''[[The Herculoids]]'' episodes "Mission of the Amatons" and The Island of the Gravites".

* Parodied in ''[[The Simpsons]]'' episode "Lisa's Rival", in a scene at an apiary after all the bees leave to steal Homer's sugar.

{{quote|'''Beekeeper 1''': Well, sure is quiet in here today.

'''[[Large Ham|Beekeeper 2]]''': You see, bees usually make... a lot of noise. NO NOISE... suggests no bees. }}

* ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'', "Stare Master": Fluttershy says this before she discovers that the Cutie Mark Crusaders (whom she was babysitting) had snuck out of her house.

 

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