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* ''[[Bleach]]'': When Grimmjow Jaegerjacquez performs his [[Power-Up|release]], the first thing he does is howl loud enough to throw up gale-force winds and momentarily stagger the protagonist.
** Wonderweiss destroys the ice imprisoning Harribel with his creepy shrieking.
* Several martial artists in [[Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple]] are able to do this. [[Musical Assassin|Siegfried]] knocks one of his opponents unconscious by screaming at a [[Hell Is That Noise|hellish pitch]], [[Complete Monster|Silcardo Jenazad]] is able to cause an avalanche with his voice, and the [[Physical God|Elder]] at one point screams with enough force to knock over everybody in a stadium - while the Elder's strength was limited to [[Power Limiter|0.0002%]] of his usual power.
* ''[[Scrapped Princess]]'': Pacifica doesn't have the capacity to fight like her adopted siblings, but whenever tragedy strikes around her (people dying, people trying to kill ''her'', etc.), she emits a scream that sends out a massive shockwave. It doesn't kill anybody, but it is useful for breaking them free from mind control. {{spoiler|It's because her powers as the anti-Peacemaker program only trigger under extreme stress.}}
* In the spirit of the series' ridiculous power levels, Buu in ''[[Dragonball Z]]'' uses this to escape ''confinement in another dimension'' (it was partially out of desperation -- there wasn't anything to eat there).
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* In the finale of the '80s ''[[Astro Boy]]'', the final robot, "Bora", has this ability.
* ''[[Kamen no Maid Guy]]'' gives us MAID GUY VOICE. It's capable of preventing people from moving.
* San Otonashi and Kanade Kamiya of ''[[Rosario
* [[Meaningful Name|El Dorago]] from the first ''[[One Piece]]'' movie.
* Ryu Kumon, a foe of [[Ranma ½]] whose fighting style has a paralyzing scream due to surprise. It's usually something like "FREEZE!", but can be anything suited for his enemy. "LOOK! YOUR MOTHER!" ([[It Makes Sense in Context]])
* Natsu in'' [[Fairy Tail]]'' {{spoiler|defeats an enemy who can hear people's thoughts, by roaring very loudly.}}
* In ''[[Toriko]]'', the fourth and final member of the Four Heavenly Kings to be introduced is a colossal man called Zebra, who takes this power [[Up to Eleven]], demonstrating the ability to use echoes to generate an artillery barrage and even more or less nuke countless powerful monsters with a single shout.
* [[Cloudcuckoolander|Yuuki]] of ''[[Code Breaker]]'' has the power of sound: he can hear exceptionally well and control sound, which means he can pack quite a punch with his sonic booms and even move at the speed of sound. He's considered one of the most powerful Code: Breakers.
* A basic attack of [[Elite Mook|Level 4 Akumas]] in ''[[D.Gray-man]]'' is to screech and stun the enemy. It's super effective.
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* The ''[[Justice League of America|Justice League's]]'' Black Canary, pictured above, with her "Canary Cry".
** Similarly, Lady Lark from ''[[Squadron Supreme]],'' an [[Expy]] of Black Canary.
** Also Shy Crazy Lolita Canary of the Super Young Team.
* Former ''[[Teen Titans (Comic Book)|Teen Titans]]'' member Herald gained this power through a super voice box. Unfortunately, as Vox, he can't turn it off -- while he can control sound, anything he actually ''says'' will kick the ass of the entire area. Not as bad as Black Bolt, though -- see below.
* ''[[Spider-Man (Comic Book)|Spider-Man]]'' villain Shriek. Also, Philip Urich, the heroic Green Goblin was indicated to have a "[[Evil Laugh|Lunatic Laugh]]" that leaves people stunned in pain and is powerful enough to harm symbiotes, which have noise-sensitivity as their [[Achilles' Heel]]. Interestingly, the power was premised on the idea that the Green Goblin (whoever he/she was) had a creepy high-pitched voice, but more recently, the Green Goblin is presented as [[Evil Sounds Deep]].
* The ''[[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]]'s'' Sean Cassidy aka Banshee and his daughter Theresa aka Siryn. Screaming also lets them fly, somehow. Oh, and they can [[Talking Is a Free Action|talk while using it]]. Hilarity ensued in the animated series when Banshee had to give [[Wolverine]] a ride.
{{quote|'''Wolverine:''' With you making all that noise, we might as well try sneaking into this place with a marching band.
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* Zhang Fei in the novel ''[[Romance of the Three Kingdoms]]'' during his stand at Chang Ban bridge, shouted so loudly it halts the advance of Cao Cao's army. Also rumoredly, one peon DIES at the mere shout of it.
* The short-lived Ace Howler in the ''[[Wild Cards]]'' series.
** Drummer Boy from the later books gets a strange variant. He's a Joker-Ace (superpowered individual with obvious mutations) who got his powers soon after he got his first drum kit, which resulted in six arms and chambers in his body that produced percussion when drummed upon. He later found that he could generate hyperfocused vibration through proper manipulation of these chambers, {{spoiler|and used this to destroy the brain of a tyrant's pet Ace}}.
* In [[Catherine Webb]]'s book ''[[Mirror Duet|Mirror Dreams]]'', Laenan Kite weaves a spell into his scream, manipulating the pressure of the air so that glass shatters and the [[Mooks|guards]] are killed.
* [[Discworld]]'s Agnes Nitt, AKA Perdita X Dream. She once threated a man of screaming so hard that his brains will came out of his nose. And yes, she can do that.
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* Catalina's Sonic Blast on ''[[Space Cases]]'', which apparently all people from Saturn have.
* Lorne of ''[[Angel]]'' can hold a song note at any pitch, pretty much forever. His screams brought several demons to their knees holding their ears in pain, and, judging from the background noise, it can shatter glass as well. The real irony is that where he comes from, ''singing in general'' is considered a sonic weapon because they have no concept of music; he's viewed as something akin to a [[Person of Mass Destruction]] with none of a nuclear warhead's huggableness. In a multi-episode arc where the group goes to his home dimension, he holds off a lynch mob by bursting into a Mo-town number (until someone rides by on a horse and just knocks him out).
** [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|Buffy]] also used this, with a group of villains called [[Nightmare Fuel|The Gentlemen]] who could be defeated by a human voice.
* [[Steven Ulysses Perhero|Echo DeMille]] in the ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'' webisodes and Jesse in the show proper. {{spoiler|And Sylar too once he kills Jesse and takes his power. And just like every other power besides telekinesis that he just ''had'' to have, he never actually uses it.}}
* [[Myth Busters|Myth Confirmed]]: A trained human voice singing a sustained high note can shatter a glass. This only works because of resonant frequencies. A glass has a very simple shape, so it will have a resonant frequency that you can use to build up vibration in the glass until it shatters. Objects with complicated geometry and things made up of a variety of different materials (like buildings) won't normally have a single resonant frequency that knocks them down.
** The exceptions to this rule are usually [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0Fi1VcbpAI spectacular and expensive]. After the horrible counterexample of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge (the bridge pictured in the linked footage), engineers try not to build structures with a resonant frequency any more.
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** 4th edition has "thunder" damage, which is basically sonic damage with a misleading name.
* Noise Marines from ''[[Warhammer 40000]]''. They mostly use their Blastmasters or Sonic Blasters to tear apart enemies with [[The Power of Rock]], but the Doom Siren weapon -- appearing as either an amplifier over the mouth or a backpack-mounted mini-pipe organ -- allows vocalists to get kills too. Also, Slaaneshi daemons have the Warp Scream ability that paralyzes foes with fear, while the [[Our Elves Are Different|Eldar]] field units of [[Amazon Brigade|Howling Banshees]] whose technology achieves similar results.
* A ''[[Nobilis]]'' character with enough points in Aspect can (with effort) shout loud enough to kill someone, and with a little extra push, deafen entire countries.
* There are weapons in ''[[GURPS]]: Ultra-Tech'', appropriately called "screamers", that can melt a person with soundwaves.
* In ''Cybergeneration'', a spinoff of R. Talsorian Games' ''Cyberpunk'', you could play an "Evolved" character which is basically a kid that's been enhanced by nanomachines that are spreading like a virus. The supplement ''MEDIA FRONT'' gave us an Evolved type called Jammers whose modification was that their throat, eustachian tubes and ears were replaced with a non-newtonian, metallic super-carbon polymer kind of like living mercury. In addition to the standard screaming, they could alter their throats to mimic any sound, or sounds, use the vibrations in their voice to hypnotize or persuade, and modify their ears to enhance their hearing.
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* Warriors in ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' get a few "shout" attacks. They don't damage, but at least one causes "fear".
** Warlocks also have Howl of Terror (causes fear), priests have Psychic Scream, but the name implies it to be a magical effect rather than actual noise.
** Some enemies and boss monsters have sound-based attacks too. Some cause fear or reduce stats like the one usable by players, but a few actually do damage. A notable mention goes to Murmur, who is apparently an elemental embodiment of sound. [[Gameplay and Story Segregation|According to an ingame book, his voice can destroy worlds, but when the player fight him he's greatly weakened after a failed summoning attempt and can be defeated by 5 people.]]
* In ''[[Guild Wars]]'' Shout skills are simply skills that have no cast time (and, indeed, can be used while you're casting or using another skill) and have an effective range of "earshot" (which is approximately aggro range). Their effects are generally damage modification (either increasing or decreasing it), but one shout, "You Move Like A Dwarf", actually damages, knocks down, and ''cripples'' whichever foe you have targeted when you use it.
** Similarly, ''[[The Lord of the Rings Online]]'' has many, many damaging shouts. Minstrels alone get at least three ways to kill via yelling, with bonus points to Dwarven minstrels, whose shouts, rather than wordless "AAGH!" of every other race, consist of the war-cry "Baruk Khazad! Khazad ai-menu!"
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* ''[[Ecco the Dolphin]]'' gets various weapons-grade augmentations to his voice over the course of his games; he ''is'' a dolphin, after all.
* ''[[Magical Battle Arena]]'' turned [[Slayers|Naga's]] [[Noblewoman's Laugh]] into this for her [[Limit Break]] Super Move, where she encases her target in ice with a [[An Ice Person|Freeze Arrow]] then simply laughs beside her hapless victim, dealing massive damage. Somehow, [[Rule of Funny|this just feels right]].
* In ''[[Command
** There are also GDI Sonic emitter weapons in Tiberium Wars, originally intended as a device to control the spread of Tiberium, they weaponized it after finding how destructive it can be. Incidentally, the Scrin made heavy use of tiberium, making the Sonic weapons brutally devastating against them.
* [[Knights of the Old Republic]] II has the force scream power.
* The sirens in [[God of War (series)|God of War]] II have a migraine inducing attack of this nature
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* Guile of [[Street Fighter]] II has Sonic Boom and Flash Kick as special attacks. [[All There in the Manual|It's explained]] as him punching/kicking so hard that his fist/foot reaches supersonic speeds.
* KYYYYYYYAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! (Screen distorts) [[Bioshock|Mr B!]] [[Mascot Mook|Mr B!]] [[Dark Action Girl|Big Sister]] doesn't want you playing with me...
* In [[New Super Mario Bros Wii]], Bowser does this {{spoiler|in the final battle}}, but it doesn't do any damage, just pushes you back a little.
** Bowser Jr. uses sound waves as part of his super ability and mega strike in ''Mario Strikers Charged''.
* The [[Stringy
* [http://cutstuff.net/blog/?page_id=1520 The Sjas] in ''[[Ghouls vs. Humans]]'' can attack with supersonic shouts (and even when he doesn't attack this way, he [[Hell Is That Noise|screams bloody murder]] all the time.)
* Rikuo/Aulbath from ''[[Darkstalkers]]'' has a special move called Sonic Wave, where he emits ultra-sonic waves to stun his opponents and that inflicts some damage on them.
* ''[[City of Heroes]]'' offers Sonic Attack and Sonic Resonance as powersets. The default animation for these powers are a range of screams and shouts. Oddly, while Sonic Attack damages targets and renders them vulnerable to more damage, Sonic Resonance includes a number of powers that make your allies tougher instead. All by making strange shrieking noises.
* One of the warrior's abilities in [[Dragon Age Origins]] is "War Cry". When upgraded it can knock enemies off their feet.
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* The Hei Bei from ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'', a forest spirit able to expel destructive sonic blasts when in its monster form.
** In [[Fanon]], this trope is theorized to be the secondary skill of [[Blow You Away|Airbending]].
** From the "[[Avatar: The Last Airbender/Recap/Book
{{quote|'''Actor!Toph:''' I don't "see" like you do--I release a sonic wave from my mouth, like this: (releases an ear-curdling scream). [[Crowning Moment of Funny|There! I just got a pretty good look at you!]]}}
* ''[[Transformers Animated]]'' {{spoiler|Starscream}} apparently can develop one of these. Although even he's not sure how he did it.
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* [[Those Wacky Nazis]] tried to develop an explosive-driven sonic "[[Stupid Jetpack Hitler|Wunderwaffe]]" that could knock down planes. It actually worked, producing waves of sound which were highly destructive -- within a range of about a dozen yards. Back to Zeichenbrett!
* It ''was'' hypothesized that Sperm Whales used intense beams of sound to stun their prey.
* Pistol shrimp used their claws to form a cavitation bubble that then explodes and stuns or kills their prey with a shockwave.
* Dynamite fishing -- illegal in most places -- uses this trope. The shockwaves from a dynamite explosion can be much stronger under water, and will stun all fish in the vicinity.
** The [[Myth Busters]] also found out that [[Tropes Examined by the Mythbusters|this is why shooting fish in a barrel is so easy.]] Even if you miss with the bullet itself, the shockwave it creates in the water will kill the fish anyway.
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** Seiyuu and singer [[Toshiyuki Morikawa]] pulled the same trick during the making of ''[[Tekkaman Blade]]''. [[Memetic Mutation|VOOOOLTEEEEEKKAAAAAAAA!!!]]
* When frightened, a pig's squeal can reach 115 decibels. ''A jet plane at takeoff is about 113...'' Something to consider before you play pranks on a farm.
** And if you think that's just a measly two decibels, remember that decibels follow a ''logarithmic'' scale. That means those two little decibels make a big difference.
* The bow-mounted low frequency sonars mounted on submarines and larger surface ships have to be powerful enough to bounce a signal off a target at a range of dozens of nautical miles. Said sonars are appropriately powerful (especially since sound follows the inverse-square law), and the most powerful ones can apocryphally boil the water right next to the emitters. There are plenty of reports of whales being caught in a sonar beam and dying from multiple internal organs rupturing.
* It is believed sauropods defended themselves by cracking their tails like whips, causing a sonic boom.
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