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"''[[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 quiet wind, faint crickets chirping, etc. --is a marker to say "nothing is happening" to the audience. The [[Manga]] [[Unsound Effect]] ''shiiiiiiin''<ref>[
If it's quieter than ''that'', the hero's heartbeat may be amplified. This kind of silence almost always ends with a [[Scare Chord]].
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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]] [[
* 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.
* [[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.
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[[Category:Sound FX Tropes]]
[[Category:Quieter Than Silence]]
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