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{{quote|''[[Mythology Gag|Children of the night! Shut up!]]''|[[Dracula]], ''[[Love At First Bite]]''}}

A particularly jarring subtrope of the above is the tendency, in fiction, for ''everything'' to roar. Say your hero is being attacked by something non-human and possibly even outside the animal kingdom; a plant or a robot or something. But we still know it's angry and very dangerous. Why? Because the thing is roaring as it fights. It might also scream in pain if the hero manages to fight back. [[Man-Eating Plant|Man Eating Plants]], despite [[You Fail Biology Forever|lacking in the vocal chord --or lung-- department]], will roar, scream and hiss just in case you didn't know they were dangerous. In a similarly helpful manner [[Giant Spider|Giant Spiders]] and [[Big Creepy Crawlies]] scream or hiss and there are at least two documented cases (in fiction, of course) of roaring ''sharks''. And if you've got to fight a '''robot''' that looks like a particular animal, you can be damn well certain that robot will make the sounds of that animal.

** ''[[Raiders of the Lost Ark (Film)|Raiders of the Lost Ark]]'' has a kookaburra in the South American Jungle

* The Pacific tree frog is the only kind of frog that very definitely goes "ribbit". It's the frog that lives in California, which is why Hollywood believes frogs everywhere in the world go "ribbit". There are, technically, a few other amphibians [[Yu-Gi-Oh the Abridged Series|in America]] whose song sounds like ribbiting - but they're toads. Actual frogs tend to make [http://allaboutfrogs.org/weird/general/songs.html chirping, burping, beeping, or trilling calls].

** And in ''[[Binchou-tan]]'' this cry is uttered by a ''duck''. Of course, it is also ''delivering mail'' at the time, so its cry is perhaps the least odd thing about it.

** And in ''[[K-On]]'' the cry is yet again used for a seagull during the obligatory [[Beach Episode]], maybe as a [[Shout-Out]] the aforementioned ''[[Suzumiya Haruhi]]'' episode, which is produced by the same studio.

* [[Gao Gai Gar|Galeon]] roars at every opportunity, just because it's dramatic. (Wouldn't you if you were a giant robot lion?) ''Sometimes'' it's justified, as the roar is being used to negate barriers.

* The ''[[Pokémon (Anime)|Pokémon]]'' episode "Chikorita's Big Upset" had dogs barking in the background during the scene where a Hitmonlee, a Hitmonchan, a Machoke, and a Primape find the titular Chikorita lost in the woods.

* The [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3k9Uov6Xlc extended version] of Will Vinton's short ''Dinosaurs!'' is [[What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made On Drugs?|exceedingly trippy]] for an educational film. The trippyness almost ''excuses'' the fact that it's got Loons in a forest '''and''' Ravens at night. There's also a bit of an Everything Roars thing going on as the clip includes distorted versions of both calls made to sound like screams. (Bonus: [[Dragons Are Dinosaurs]]]] '''and''' [[What Measure Is a Non-Cute?]]! You may not want to watch it if those tropes bother you a lot.)

* The giant mutant ants in ''[[Them (Film)|Them]]'' are quite noisy for creatures without vocal cords.

* And let us not forget the ''[[Mystery Science Theatre 3000]]'' classic, ''[[Our Werewolves Are Different|Werewolf]]'', which takes place in Flagstaff, Arizona. It has every variation of this trope: Wolf-people who never shut up, growling and howling at everything. Red-tailed Hawks crying at ''night''. A crappy Werewolf puppet who ''makes the calls of a hawk and a bat'' (WTF seems sadly inefficient here). And a soundtrack that uses every one of these animal calls as its [[Scare Chord|Scare Chords]].

** Another feature on ''[[MST3K]]'', ''[[Cave Dwellers]]'', has roaring ''snakes'' (technically the real snakes merely growl. The giant rubber puppet snake roars).

* Possibly justified with ''[[Robo Cop]]'''s ED-209: the (presumably prerecorded) lion's roar probably works as a pretty decent criminal deterrent. It's changed into puppy sounds in '''Robocop III'' because Ed has become a robotic [[Butt Monkey]] by that point.

* In ''[[Community (TV)|Community]]'' episode [[Community (TV)/Recap/S1 E24 English As a Second Language|English as a Second Language]] puts nature recordings over the Pa. One of the tacks is entitled Antelope Slaughter at Indutu.

* Averted in a way with [[Warhammer 40 K|Warhammer 40K]]'''s Tyranids. An Imperial Guard soldier noted the worst part of seeing an advancing Tyranid army was the total lack of vocal sound. No battle cries, wounded soldiers or shouted orders, just the tramp of clawed feet and rustling of chitin.

** There's a roaring shark in ''[[Shark Attack 3 Megalodon]]'' too. And I seem to recall a roaring giant squid in the adaptation of [[Peter Benchley]]'s ''[[Beast|The Beast]]'' too.

* ''[[Beast Wars (Animation)|Beast Wars]]'' spiders Tarantulas and Blackarachnia and [[Stock Dinosaurs|velociraptor]] Dinobot speak in near constant hiss, and Tigatron and Airrazor have rather vocal beast modes. Megatron, of course, speaks in constant [[Large Ham|ham]], no matter which mode he's in.

* George's ''Indiana Jones'' fantasy at the start of ''[[UHF (Film)|UHF]]''. If you listen closely, you can hear cows, cats, and dogs among the cacophony.

* [[Cartoon Network]] ran a spoof starring [[Yogi Bear (Animation)|Yogi Bear]], where a director filmed ''[[Everythings Worse With Bear|When Bears Attack]]'' with a sleepy Yogi and Boo Boo - for instance, Yogi's yawning was shot and played over with the roar of [[Super Mario Bros|Bowser]].