Screaming Woman: Difference between revisions

* Renee Russo's character in ''[[Get Shorty]]'' was a famous B-movie "scream queen" with an extremely impressive scream. When a villain pulls a gun on Chili Palmer, she screams and it distracts the villain long enough to give Chili the upper hand.

* Noticeably averted in ''[[Three Days of the Condor]]''. A female CIA analyst looks up and sees three men pointing silenced submachine guns at her, and realises what's about to happen.

'''Janice:''' ''(calmly)'' I won't scream.<br />

'''Joubert:''' I know. }}

** Lampshading bordering on subversion with the Second Doctor companion Victoria. In ''The Tomb of the Cybermen'' her scream distracts the person pointing a gun at her. In ''The Ice Warriors'', her scream causes an avalanche that takes out her captor. In ''Fury from the Deep'', her scream is the weapon that defeats the [[Big Bad]].

** "Tomb of the Cybermen":

** The other companion famous for this trope is Mel. Reputedly her actress was told to pitch her screams to match the start of the theme music, so there wouldn't be any dissonance at cliffhangers. The fan webcomic ''The Ten Doctors'' has fun with this, with an author's note commenting that "Mel, as we all feared, screams".

** Leela's [[Moment of Awesome]] might just be when she slaps one of these in ''The Horror of Fang Rock''.

== Web Animation ==

* Spoofed in the flash cartoon ''[[The Demented Cartoon Movie]]'':

'''Evil Blah:''' ... What? }}

* In this ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iz-RmSG2s1k animated music video], a pervert dwarf makes a woman scream by flashing her. Based on a French song by Richard Gotainer, "La Ballade de l'obsédé".

* ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'' has a side character who exists only to fill this role.

** She first screams during the [http://egscomics.com/?date=2002-10-12 goo attack,] then later makes a reappearance when the [http://egscomics.com/?date=2008-08-04 "evil monkey"] shows up. Her role is [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] in the [[The Rant|commentary]] of the second strip.

** Her line during the first incident:

'''Ellen:''' Damnit, if the goo starts to eat people I hope whoever that was is the first to go. }}

** To her credit, though, she does compose herself pretty quickly in the latter incident, given that she phones for help only a panel later (albeit not in the most convincing terms).

* [[Played for Laughs]] in ''[[Girl Genius]]'' when the eponymous Agatha Heterodyne, prior to achieving [[Action Girl]] status, succumbs to this the [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20030203 first time she's left alone with a Jägermonster.]

''*Transcribed from the Jagger accent, sort of their own version of [[Vampire Vords]].'' }}