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{{trope}}
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{{quote|''"The banshee wails her horrible song! The bone-charring sounds rip your heart apart! [[Final Death|You die]]..."''
|''[[Ancient Domains of Mystery]]'', being killed by the wail of the Banshee}}
Here we have the ghostly women who originate from [[Celtic Mythology]]. They are usually noted for their voices, due to either being hauntingly hypnotic, or filled with horrible screams usually [[Sadly Mythtaken]] for a [[Make Me Wanna Shout|sonic attack]].
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Their wail can sometimes be a [[Portent of Doom]].
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* ''[[Magic the Gathering|Magic: The Gathering]]'' has several banshee cards. They are typically black creatures with abilities that weaken other creatures or injure players without discrimination.▼
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* [[Marvel Comics]]' Banshee is a male mutant with yelling and [[Not Quite Flight|bizarre flight powers]]. His daughter, incidentally, is called Siryn.
** Having accepted her father's death, Siryn has [[Legacy Character|taken on his name]] - including a [[Lampshade Hanging]] that she was never quite sure why he named himself after a female spirit in the first place.
*** ''[[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]]'' writer Roy Thomas actually meant for Banshee to be a woman, but [[Stan Lee]] decided that a male character would be better. When Siryn was created, Thomas' reaction was "that was what Banshee was supposed to look like all along!" So, with Siryn's taking on the name, the Banshee he'd created has finally arrived...and it only took 30 years. But hey, [[Legacy Character
* [[Corto Maltese]] once meets an Irish girl named Banshee, and asks her why she was given such an inauspicious name. She dodges the question, but she isn't, as far as the story goes, a supernatural creature.
* [[The DCU]] has Jeanette, of the [[Secret Six]], and [[
** Of course, Silver Banshee has to know your [[True Name]]. Her power doesn't work on Superman because she doesn't know his birth name is neither Superman nor Clark Kent, but Kal-El.
** Depends on how you define "doesn't work". It won't kill him, but it
* In one ''[[Dylan Dog]]'' story he meet a girl named Banshee, who brings death and bad luck to all those who are close to her. Of course, our hero tries to seduce her ''and'' breaking the nefarious curse by surviving himself.
== [[Film]] ==
* Disney's ''[[Darby O
== [[Literature]] ==
* In ''[[Harry Potter (
* ''[[Discworld]]'' gives us two different varieties of Banshee, the only sentient species on the Disc that evolved natural flight. There's the civilized type, which typically wails when someone is about to die (the one we meet has a speech impediment, so he just slips a note under their door). Then there's the feral variety, which are the reason for the
* [[Mercedes Lackey]]'s ''SERRAted Edge'' novels have a male Banshee as an enemy of the elves, with a painful false etymology (mixing Gaelic with Old English) that banshees are the ''bane'' of the Sidhe.
* In one of the early [[Forgotten Realms|Dark Elf]] books, ''The Halfling's Gem'', Drizzt do'Urden and Wulfgar have to fight a classic D&D-style banshee. {{spoiler|Both sides survive, because the local village actually relies on the fact that a banshee lairs nearby for tourism, and Drizzt and Wulfgar promised not to destroy her.}} This is a plot point because her lair holds the enchanted mask that lets Drizzt pass as a plain old elf to avoid the obvious problems of being recognized as a dark elf on the surface and that eventually {{spoiler|falls into the hands of Artemis Entreri}}.
* ''[[Soul Screamers]]'' has Kaylee who carries on the banshee wail whenever someone is near-death.
* Erica Hayes's ''Shadowfae'' series of urban fantasy novels features banshees with [[Enthralling Siren|siren-like abilities]]. These banshees seem to be a type of [[The Fair Folk|fae]] with a [[Magic Music|magical affinity]] for sound rather than death, although they can kill with a [[Musical Assassin|song]] or [[Make Me Wanna Shout|scream]] if they want to. They can also cast a variety of spells through song, [[Compelling Voice|manipulate humans]], and secrete venom from beneath their tongues that they can use as an [[Kiss of Death|additional weapon]] besides their voices. Their magical affinity for sound gives them [[Super Senses|preternatural hearing]] but also gives them the ability to [[Required Secondary Powers|filter sounds so they don't get overwhelmed by auditory stimuli]], as well as enhancements to their inner ear that give them extraordinary balance and agility. They all look like attractive human women, but with unusually colored [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair|hair]] and [[Technicolor Eyes|eyes]], and usually their eyes and hair are of different but unnaturally bright neon or metallic colors. They are known for being violent, lustful, and usually [[Ax Crazy|just a little psychotic]], and in one book, a banshee is employed as an enforcer and bodyguard for a supernatural version of the mob. They are born with innately magical voices, but their magic can be taken from them by some other kinds of supernatural beings who [[Powers
== [[Live
* In ''[[
* In ''[[
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* In ''[[Warhammer
* Banshees show up in ''[[Dungeons
* ''[[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]]'' has screaming undead banshee as an unit in Vampires army.
* The original Celtic breed show up in ''[[Scion]] Companion'', under their original name, ''bean sidhe'' ("sidhe" is pronounced "shee"). Since White Wolf [[Did the Research]], they're fixated on death but aren't particularly big on screaming.
* Banshees are a [[Splat|Shade]] of ghost/projector in ''[[Orpheus]]''. In keeping with the name, their major talents are the ability to see the future and a wail that can either control emotions or shatter your eardrums.
▲* ''[[
== [[Video Games]] ==
* Banshees are an enemy in ''[[Fable
* ''[[
** The most notable Banshee is Sylvanas Windrunner. Originally forced into a ghostly state as a final cruelty by Arthas, she was the first Banshee and became the "Banshee Queen". As a reward for her service to Arthas, she eventually received her original(now undead) body to possess.
*** Didn't she steal her corpse and revive it herself? And she definitely wasn't the first banshee. Night elves slain during the war of the ancients have been banshees for thousands of years. The Lich King got the idea to 'enlist' them for his army, then he decided he needed to make some more. Sylvanas was, however, the first High Elven banshee. She also has taught a few of her banshee sisters to take back their bodies, they are now Dark Rangers.
*** They also show up in [[World of Warcraft]],
* One of the enemies in the English version of ''[[Castlevania]]: Order of Ecclesia'' is called the Banshee (in Japan, it was an [[Stringy
* The "Frozen Lady" of ''[[Mystery Case Files]]'': Dire Grove is also identified as a banshee. She doesn't have a scream attack, but when you can freeze a good chunk of England solid while still mystically bound, do you need one?
* Misdreavus and its evolution Mismagius from ''[[Pokémon]]''.
* The ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' series has a few [[Mook
* In ''[[City of Heroes]]'', Cabal bosses with sonic attacks are called "Bane Sidhe," and their description makes the intended folk etymology explicit.
* [[Nancy Drew (
* A banshee makes a brief appearance in ''[[Shadowgate]]'' in the form of a [[Jump Scare]].
* In ''[[Mass Effect
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* In ''[[Tales of the Questor]]'', the banshee are ghostly revenants who also serve as [https://web.archive.org/web/20130227023118/http://www.rhjunior.com/totq/00485.html heralds and messengers the Unseleighe court], and also [https://web.archive.org/web/20130227023042/http://www.rhjunior.com/totq/00461.html mark the course of a Wild Hunt.]
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers (
* ''[[Gargoyles]]'' features a villainous banshee who is one of [[The Fair Folk|Oberon's Children]]. She has a small cameo in a second episode when she refuses to answer Oberon's summons; as punishment she's dragged back by the Weird Sisters and gagged indefinitely.
* ''[[
* One of the ''[[Casper]]'' cartoons featured his teacher Ms. Banshee, who had a particularly powerful scream.
* A banshee was one of the main characters in the cartoon ''[[Roswell Conspiracies: Aliens, Myths and Legend]]''.
* The [[
** Actually, the second sister was a Siren rather than a Banshee. Ghost genetics confuse me.
** It was a trap: The Siren was the carrot, the Banshee the stick. In the episode the banshee & siren could stay young if they ate the youth of humans. So they would use the siren to lure young people in and the banshee would then steal the youth.
* In ''[[Scooby-Doo! Abracadabra-Doo
* In ''[[X-Men (
* Misery from ''[[Ruby Gloom]]'' is [[Fanonis|often suspected of being a banshee]], along with her [[One-Gender Race|all-female family]], though it's not official.
* In one episode of ''[[The Real Ghostbusters]]'', the group had to stop an Irish rock star who actually was a banshee and was scheming to use her powers to destroy the entire United States through a broadcasted concert.
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