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Some people find happiness in hearing a peaceful stream, or the laughter of children, or maybe a beautiful symphony. Others... not so much. Sometimes you'll find people who very openly find joy, solace, or at least, familiarity, in the sounds of suffering and violence.
Expect this trope to crop up if there's a [[Cold-Blooded Torture|torture scene]], particularly if someone's being [[Interrogated for Nothing]]. If the victim is [[The Stoic]], [[The Spock]], or [[Defiant to the End]], they'll probably resist giving their captor the satisfaction.
Usually a sign that the person you're dealing with is a [[Psycho for Hire]], a [[Complete Monster]], or at the very least a sadist (it's not exactly a heroic quality). For characters who actually feed off of feelings of suffering, see [[Emotion Eater]]. Related to [[Bad Is Good and Good Is Bad]].
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** In the manga, the Major has half a chapter devoted to this trope. To wit: "And it is superb when the enemy prisoner screams in time with the shriek escaping from the schmeisser I hold as I mow him down." And that's only the SANE portion of the speech.
** When fighting Tublacan, Alucard tells him to "squeal like a pig."
* ''[[Black Lagoon]]'': Because of their horrific past where they were forced to rape and kill other children for their tormenter's amusement, [[Creepy Twins]] Hansel and Gretel grew to love killing in general, which includes "the sound of screaming".
* In ''[[Super Dreadnought Girl 4946]]'', Makoto Tobita sister Kuumi fights and kills demons soley because she loves to hear their screams. However she comments that she [[Brother-Sister Incest|prefers her brother screams the most]].
* Hiei from [[Yu Yu Hakusho]]. Has been savagely killing everything around him that breathed since he could walk, and describes their cries of pain to have been like a child's music box to his ears. [[Take Our Word for It|No wonder we never got any scenes of Hiei as a child]].
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== Film (Animated) ==
* A rare heroic example, [[The Nightmare Before Christmas|Jack Skellington]], the King of Halloween, laments that he has "grown so weary of the sound of screams," indicating that he used to enjoy them. The screams he's referring to are those of fright from Halloween pranks, and not torture.
* As the page quote shows, [[Villain Song|"My Lullaby"]] in ''[[The Lion King]] 2'' is almost entirely this.
* The ''[[Monsters, Inc.]]'' monsters don't just like to hear screams; they need them as a source of energy.
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* Cazalla, the commander of the dread fortress of Matanceros in [[Michael Crichton|Michael Crichton's]] posthumously published ''[[wikipedia:Pirate Latitudes|Pirate Latitudes]]'' is known throughout Port Royal ''to find the screams of his dying victims restful and relaxing''.
* One of [[wikipedia:The Red Knight|the Red Knights]] in [[Arthurian Legend]] was cursed to require the continuous din of screaming ladies to rest. Without the noise, headaches and insomnia would quickly drive him mad.
* Ray used to be baffled by this in [[Christopher Brookmyre|Christopher Brookmyre's]]'' [[A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away]]''. Then his wife had a baby, and he understood how people got desensitised.
* In one of the ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'' novels, [[Complete Monster|Crovax]] has a torture machine that's basically a pipe organ with people getting [[Electric Torture|Electric Tortured]] instead of pipes. [[Complete Monster|His only problem with it is that whenever one of the victims finally dies, he has to find someone who screams at the same pitch to replace them]].
* DomDaniel in ''[[Septimus Heap]]'' is specifically mentioned to love the last sream of a dying person.
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* Some ''[[Super Sentai]]'' villains. [[Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger|Bandora]], for example, says she loves to hear children crying, and the villains of ''[[Samurai Sentai Shinkenger]]'' use suffering to raise the water level of the Sanzu River where they live.
* In ''[[Babylon 5]]'', this is why [[Complete Monster|Cartagia]] finds torturing [[The Stoic|G'Kar]] so frustrating.
* In the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' story "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S15
* The Barrel Girl Gang of ''[[Dexter]]'', especially [[Big Bad|Jordan Chase]] of Season 5, seemed to do what ever they could to their victims to get them to scream. To the point self proclaimed [[Complete Monster]] Dexter was [[Even Evil Has Standards|sickened by their actions]].
* [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|Willow and Faith;]] as villains, explicitly share their love of this. They're also two of the most psychotic characters in the series.
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== Theatre ==
* And the Broadway version of ''[[The Little Mermaid]]'' gives [[Big Bad|Ursula]] the second [[Villain Song]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEugSRttip0&feature=related "I Want the Good Times Back"], notable for the massive [[Lyrical Dissonance]] and one of the most brazen examples of [[Foe Yay]] ever, which is mix of Ursula explaining her plan and this trope:
{{quote|''I want to taste their tears!''
''I want to hear their screams!''
''[[For the Evulz|I want the special rush you get from crushing hopes and dreams!]]'' }}
** And, unlike [[The Lion King|Zira]], who just implies this in her song, Ursula then goes on and directly says that "It's an aphrodisiac." [[Disney]] villainesses are surprisingly kinky.
* [[Voltaire (
{{quote|Your tears are all the pay I'll ever need.}}
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{{quote|"You know, you're not nearly so ugly when you're screaming."}}
* Sniper Wolf explains that gunfire, sirens and screams were her lullabies when giving her death speech to Solid Snake in ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]'', although in this case, they may have literally been her lullabies considering the fact that she was born and raised in the battlefield around Kurdistan/Iraq.
** In Sniper Wolf's case those sounds were beyond her control and something she did not enjoy. A straighter example could be found in the character of Colonel Volgin from Metal Gear Solid 3 who loves torturing his victims. During World War II he and the Russian units under his command were ordered to execute thousands of Polish citizens and soldiers, he personally beat many such victims to death with his fists and took off their blindfolds so that he could enjoy the look of terror in their eyes as they died. During the game's story he subjects the young Big Boss, then known as Snake, to [[Cold-Blooded Torture]] where he beats him within an inch of his life and electrocutes him, and when Snake pisses himself because he can't hold it in through all the pain Volgin reacts to it by saying, "Yes! Now that's what I wanna see!" Ocelot, a man who ruthlessly tortured Snake with electricity during Shadow Moses which means this is saying something, watching this is disgusted at first, but slowly begins to view torture as an art form after the torture session ends.
* I-No of ''[[Guilty Gear]]'' gleefully admits that she enjoys anyone else's screaming, as shown in her winquote against Bridget.
{{quote|'''I-No''': Ahh, the sweet sounds of a child screaming. It strikes right at my heart. Cry some more for me!}}
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== Webcomics ==
* [[Playing with a Trope|Played with]] [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20090213 in] ''[[Girl Genius]]''. The "Red Playroom" in Castle Hetrodyne has a machine that generates screams. With all kinds of adjustments, volume, guilt-innocence, agony-ecstasy, sad-mad, etc.
* ''[[Goblins]]'' plays this straight with [[Torture Technician|Dellyn]] [[Fantastic Racism|Goblinslayer]]. On the other hand, [[Knight Templar|Kore]] narrowly avoids this one. Sure, he [[Cold-Blooded Torture|tortures]] Chief just to make him scream, but there's a practical reason: to lure the other goblins out of hiding so he can kill them too.
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