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Line 1: {{trope}} {{quote\|"''[[It's Quiet... Too Quiet\|It's quiet... too quiet...]]''"}} If a scene, response or view is shown in total silence, often the audience may simply think the sound is out on their TV or movie theater. Having a background noise that is normally drowned out by foreground ~~noise—a~~noise — a quiet wind, faint crickets chirping, etc. --— is a marker to say "nothing is happening" to the audience; the slight sound is actually '''Quieter Than Silence'''. The [[Manga]] [[Unsound Effect]] ''shiiiiiiin''<ref>[[wikipedia:Tinnitus\|Tinnitus?]].</ref> does the same thing. A visual of a tumbleweed blowing across the scene is used in Westerns, and nowadays mainly in comedies, to convey the same effect. A low rumbling is often also used, to simulate that sort of feeling a person gets in their ears in a dark, quiet room. If it's quieter than ''that'', the hero's heartbeat may be amplified. This kind of silence almost always ends with a [[Scare Chord]]. Compare [[Visible Silence]], [[Nothing Is Scarier]], [[Chirping Crickets]], [[Loading Screen]] (so that [[Video Games]] make it clear they are still on while the level loads). The inverse is [[Music Video Syndrome]] or [[Sorry I Left the BGM On]]. {{examples}} == [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] == * In ''[[One Piece]]'', when Zoro first learns to cut steel, the whole world goes silent save for his heartbeat—you can even see his opponent yelling, but no sound can be heard. == [[Fan Works]] == * Upon finding out what happened in [[Spice Girls\|Melanie C]] in ''[http://fav.me/dd7ow55 Case of the Missing Technology]'', the narrator remarked that even the crickets were quiet, thanks to finding her {{Spoiler\|[[An Arm and a Leg\| dismembered]]}}. == [[Film]] == Line 26 ⟶ 29: * In the movie ''[[1408]]'', the sound of a baby crying on the other side of a wall builds and echoes, deafening Enslin until - it stops. Along with all other noise in the scene. We (and he) can't even hear Enslin trying to call out. == [[Live -Action TV]] == * On [[Gerry Anderson]] shows like ''[[Captain Scarlet]]'', ''[[UFO]]'', and ''[[Space: 1999]]'', the airless silence of space or the moon's surface is conveyed by a slow droning sound like a cello or double-bass. * ''[[Doctor Who]]'': Twice in ~~the~~ [[The Nth Doctor\|the Eleventh]] [[Doctor ~~Who]]~~'s]] run, total [[Arc Words\|silence falls]]. First, at the end of [[Doctor Who/Recap/S31/E06 The Vampires of Venice\|The Vampires of Venice]], when ''all'' the sounds of Venice cut out, like the birds, the waves, and the people, then at the end of [[Doctor Who/Recap/S31/E12 The Pandorica Opens\|The Pandorica Opens]] (including the ''music'' this time). According to [[Word of God]], these two episodes actually take place around the same time, so it's actually ''the same silence''. * In the ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer~~\|Buffy~~]]'' episode "The Body", there was no background music in the entire episode. This led to a lot of silent scenes, which made the episode much more depressing than it probably would have been if there had been music. * ''[[The Walking Dead]]'' loves this trope. If it's not actually silent, then the air hums with the call of cicadas, to emphasize that there's nothing ''human'' to hear. == [[Theatre]] == Line 67 ⟶ 70: {{reflist}} [[Category:{{PAGENAME}}]]▼ [[Category:Silence Tropes]] [[Category:Music Tropes]] [[Category:Sound FX Tropes]] ▲[[Category:{{PAGENAME}}]]

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