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

 

== Films -- Animated ==

{{quote| "Speaking of trouble, we should have run into some by now. You know, a guard, a booby trap..." '''*his torch is blown out leaving only complete darkness*''' "...or an ambush."}}

* ''[[Shrek]]'' utters this line when he and Donkey enter a deserted Kingdom of Duloc. (Everyone there has gone off to watch the tournament.)

 

 

* In ''[[Asterix]] Mission Cleopatre'', the Egyptian architect, trapped in Cleopatra's Palace under Roman siege, utters this line as everything is silent and a [[Dramatic Wind|tumblewheed rolls by]]. Right after, the Romans show up with siege engines.

** "It's quiet... Too quiet... I like i better when it's a little more less quiet..."

{{quote| '''Donatello:''' The perimeter's quiet.<br />

'''Leonardo:''' Yeah, a little ''too'' quiet.<br />

'''Leonardo:''' You guys, knock it off!<br />

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

* 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.

* While the exact words aren't used, there is a scene in ''[[Sleepy Hollow]]'' where local Young Masbath points out to city slicker Ichabod Crane how quiet the forest is, and has to explain that forests are supposed to be ''noisy,'' like crickets and birds and stuff - noises that the forest lacked at that point.

* Inverted in ''[[The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra]]'':

{{quote| '''Ranger Brad''': These things just don't happen! Noises? In the woods?}}

 

 

== Literature ==

* In ''[[Dragaera|Five Hundred Years After]]'', one of Khaavren's guardsmen says that since most of the civilians were evacuated, Dragaera City is so quiet that the Guards aren't really needed. Khaavren asks if he's ever spent any time in the jungle, where there are dzur or dragons? The guardsman says he has. Well, if he was out in the jungle and all the birds and little critters suddenly hid or went quiet, would he feel ''safe''? The guardsman sees Khaavren's point.

* In ''h.i.v.e.: the overlord protocol'', Nigel specifically tells Franz not to say this. After Nigel leaves, Franz says it anyway.

* In [[Tamora Pierce]]'s ''Trickster's Choice'', Aly notes that the jungle animals are all quiet...however, her sneakiness and the experience of the guards thwart the subsequent ambush.

'''Crow:''' A lot of cars in here.<br />

'''Mike:''' A little '''too''' a lot of cars in here. }}

{{quote| '''Kryten:''' Listen! Can anyone hear anything?<br />

'''Cat:''' No.<br />

* On ''[[Deep Space Nine]],'' Quark once used this line literally. He noticed the ambient noise in his bar was 35 decibels below normal, which made him the first to realize something was wrong with his clients.

** To elaborate, his clients at the time were [[Boisterous Bruiser|Klingons]]. When ''Klingons'' are quiet, you know something's up.

** ''The Doctor Dances'', where the Doctor is listening to a tape recording of the Empty Child, but there's a whirring flapping noise in the background.

{{quote| '''Rose Tyler:''' Doctor...<br />

* An episode of ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' plays with this. O'Neill comments that it's quiet, but that's just because the [[It Makes Sense in Context|annoying little man who'd been implanted in all their heads]] was gone.

* Officer Reed on an episode of [[Adam-12]]: "It's almost too quiet." On a prowler call Reed and Malloy suspect is a setup to lure them into an ambush - turns out to be just the "normal" amount of quiet after all, as it was, in fact, just a prowler call.

** Earlier in the series, Commander Ivanova states that she is more comfortable when there is something going wrong. Because on Babylon 5, something is ''always'' going wrong. Thus, if everything seems to be going smoothly, it simply means you don't ''know'' what is going wrong yet.

* In ''[[The Wire]]'', McNulty says this line to his wife, speaking of their children's bedroom.

 

== Tabletop Games ==

 

 

== Videogames ==

** 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.

** And the fact that it's an on-rails shooter and you fly in a straight line the entire time. Kinda hard to set up a trap when you're never expected to drop your guard.

*** "No Covenant defenses detected... Contact! Lots of contact!"

*** "No Covenant? You HAD to open your mouth!"

* ''[[Command and Conquer]]: Renegade's'' first mission opened up as follows:

{{quote| '''First Soldier:''' What are we looking for again?<br />

* ''[[Dead Rising]]'': This trope is what first tips Frank West off that the situation in the small Colorado town is more than what meets the eye. In his words, "It doesn't sound like civil disobedience. It's too quiet."

** And, again, late in the game, commandos will show up and start slaughtering the zombies. You've gotten used to the place being full of the undead by now, so [[Nothing Is Scarier|seeing it empty is eerie.]]

* Uttered after a lengthy dinosaur chase in Sega's ''[[Jurassic Park|The Lost World]]'' Arcade shooter. Cue the T-Rex crashing right through the wall in front of you (just before [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|delivering the final shot]])!

* In [[Mass Effect]], [[Wrench Wench|Tali-Zorah nar Rayya]] points out that this trope is usually in effect [[In Space]]: if the engines and/or life support aren't making noise, that means they ''aren't working''. The Normandy creeps her out - since it's a brand new ship, there are almost no noises at all, and her instincts are insisting that she's in danger.

* Said in [[House of the Dead]] 2, almost word for word. A later scene also has James say something similar when looking around the baddie's base: "It's like they're inviting me in..."

* In ''[[Paper Mario the Thousand Year Door]]'', the stunning lack of background music in the underground room with the entrance to the Pit Of 100 Trials provides a big clue as to how deathly serious that pipe in the middle of the room is.

* In [[Dragon Age Origins]], at one point in the Dalish Elf origin, Merril mentions that all the woodland animals are silent. She speculates it's because the [[The Virus|Darkspawn]] are in the area. {{spoiler|She's right.}}

* In ''[[Dragon Age II]]'' ''Mark of the Assassin'', as your party searches for signs of a wyvern, it suddenly becomes ''very'' quiet.

 

== Webcomics ==

* Used in ''[[The 10 Doctors (Fanfic)|The 10 Doctors]]''.

 

 

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

* In the ''[[Mighty Mightor]]'' episode "The Tiger Men", Tor says "I don't like it. It's too quiet tonight...I sense danger tonight." before the Tiger Men attack.

* In ''[[Weekenders]]'' when they stay in Lor's house (the house with 13 run-around brothers) after they can't stay in other houses. But they decide to leave instead when it's just too quiet.

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

'''Beekeeper 1''': Hmm... I'm afraid I don't. <br />

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

{{quote| {{smallcaps|Raven}} (upon hearing Timmy scream): Teether just took Timmy's blankie... (Teether screams) Timmy just took it back. (Screams cease) And now it's quiet... [[Oh Crap|(stops walking)]] [[It's Quiet... Too Quiet|too quiet]]. [[Mama Bear|(Runs back to monastery)]] }}

* Used in an episode of the original ''[[Transformers]]'' cartoon. Prowl even [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshades]] it by saying "Yeah, like they say in the movies, too quiet."