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{{trope}}
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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 quiet wind, faint crickets chirping, etc. --is a marker to say "nothing is happening" to the audience. The [[Manga]] [[Unsound Effect]] ''shiiiiiiin''<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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.
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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]].
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== [[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.
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* On [[Gerry Anderson]] shows like ''[[Captain Scarlet]]'', ''[[UFO]]'', ''[[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.
* Twice in the [[The Nth Doctor|Eleventh]] [[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'s run, total [[Arc Words|silence falls]]. First, at the end of [[Doctor Who (TV)/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 (TV)/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 (TV)|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.
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* The fight with, and the scenery around, [[Cosmic Horror|Giygas]] from ''[[Earthbound]]''.
* ''[[Fire Emblem]]'' Path of Radiance (9) has this when Ike calls out the leaders of the game's most powerful country for toying with him earlier, even though his country is dependent on their help.
* The final boss of ''Sword Of Jade'' uses a [[One
* The only thing in ''[[Silent Hill]]'' more scary than the monster-made radio static or the ghoulish background music? Dead silence.
* ''[[Halo|Halo: Combat Evolved]]'' uses this trope for the Flood. In the cutscene there are 0 enemies around even though a dead body just fell at John. However, the music and faint sounds kee some sound around. [[It Got Worse|Then the Flood arrive.]]
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