It's Quiet... Too Quiet: Difference between revisions

== Anime & Manga ==

* ''[[Rurouni Kenshin]]'' parodies this in their Blooper Reel.

'''Kenshin''': [[Crowning Moment of Funny|I can't hear any FISH!]] }}

* Kurama remarks on the quiet in episode 74 of ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho]]''.

* Even the usually reliable ''[[Elf Quest]]'' comics couldn't resist having a character say "it's too quiet" in the expanded version of Volume One.

* Played with in ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|BtVS]]'' Season 8:

'''Kennedy:''' No, I'm gonna say I think we're okay. }}

* The line gets thrown about in [[Alan Moore]]'s ''[[Miracleman]]''.

== Films -- Animated ==

* [[Disney]]'s ''[[The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney film)|The Hunchback of Notre Dame]]'' has a scene where Captain Phoebus doesn't like the quietness of the catacombs:

* ''[[Shrek]]'' utters this line when he and Donkey enter a deserted Kingdom of Duloc. (Everyone there has gone off to watch the tournament.)

* In ''[[The Fox and the Hound]]'', Vixey is afraid to enter a copse when she realises it's too quiet, while Todd has no such qualms {{spoiler|and narrowly avoids falling foul of Copper, Amus' shotgun and a ''shitload'' of bear traps}}.

* Done in the first scene of ''[[Galaxy Quest]]'', right before an ambush attack on Tim Allen and company.

* Used seriously at the time in ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (film)|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]] II'', but sets up a joke shortly afterwards:

''<Leo [[Dope Slap|hits Mikey on the head]] for turning it into an [[Overly Long Gag]]>''<br />

'''Leonardo:''' You guys, knock it off!<br />

** Later in the movie, during an especially dark night, one character starts freaking out because it's so quiet, and his commanding officer asks for a flare to see by...revealing that it was quiet because the Vietnamese soldiers were a couple of feet away, trying to sneak attack.

* Inverted in ''[[The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra]]'':

* In the remake of ''[[Assault on Precinct 13]]'', one character remarks that it's "awful quiet out there", and Lawrence Fishburne replies that that's what worries him.

 

* In ''[[Band of Brothers]]'', O'Keefe mutters that it's "awfully quiet" while a handful of soldiers are on patrol in the German woods. Moments later, they stumble across a Nazi concentration camp.

* Used in the movie ''Zombie Nightmare'', featured on ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'', where it was parodied by Mike and the Bots:

'''Mike:''' A little '''too''' a lot of cars in here. }}

** Mocked in another episode of [[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]. When the hero of ''[[Cave Dwellers]]'' remarks that it's "too quiet," Crow adds, "Yeah, '''too''' too quiet."

* From the ''[[Red Dwarf]]'' episode "White Hole."

'''Lister:''' No, no, he's right. There's no sounds because the engines are dead. We've lost all power! }}

* On ''[[Deep Space Nine]],'' Quark once used this line literally. He noticed the ambient noise in his bar was 35 decibels below normal, which made him the first to realize something was wrong with his clients.

* A good twist put on it in "[[Doctor Who]]" on a couple of occasions, in that it's not that it's quiet, but the fact that it's NOT quiet that's the problem. Two excellent examples of [[Oh Crap]] moments (both courtesy of [[Steven Moffat]]) follow.

** ''The Doctor Dances'', where the Doctor is listening to a tape recording of the Empty Child, but there's a whirring flapping noise in the background.

'''Doctor:''' End of the tape. It ran out about 30 seconds ago... I sent it to its room. This is its room! }}

*** Earlier in that same episode, a boy using a typewriter to write a letter to his dad. The sounds of his typing are under the dialogue of the scene, until Nancy, the leader of these kids, points out that the boy isn't typing anymore. It's typing by itself.

** "The Girl in the Fireplace", Doctor staring at a broken clock.

'''Doctor''': Just a bit scared, yeah. Just a tiny bit. 'Cause you see, if this clock's broken, and it's the only one in the room, then what's that ticking? }}

* The [[Horatio Hornblower|Hornblower]] episode ''Duty'':

* An episode of ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' plays with this. O'Neill comments that it's quiet, but that's just because the [[It Makes Sense in Context|annoying little man who'd been implanted in all their heads]] was gone.

* Officer Reed on an episode of [[Adam-12]]: "It's almost too quiet." On a prowler call Reed and Malloy suspect is a setup to lure them into an ambush - turns out to be just the "normal" amount of quiet after all, as it was, in fact, just a prowler call.

* ''[[Halo: Reach]]'', in [[Call Back]] to the first game, has a chapter titled "...Too Quiet."

* ''[[Command and Conquer]]: Renegade's'' first mission opened up as follows:

Needless to say, they shortly fall prey to a Nod ambush. }}

* [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] in the [[Re Boot|2008]] ''[[Prince of Persia]]'' game:

'''Prince''': [[Genre Savvy|Don't say it's quiet. Don't EVER say it's quiet.]] }}

** During a boss fight in that level, the Prince might say, "I told you, ''never'' say it's quiet." If you knock the boss off a cliff, he says, "''Now'' it's quiet."

* ''[[Uncharted]]'':

'''Nathan''': Nothing. Absolutely nothing. }}

** Amusingly, Nathan's voice actor is the same as that of the Prince of Persia in the above example.

** Nolan North seems to be very [[Genre Savvy]], as in the sequel Chloe is trapped in an elevator and the power's out, leading to this lovely gem:

** Which is understandable since he had to face {{spoiler|zombie nazis}} in the first game.

* ''[[Ratchet and Clank]] Future: A Crack in Time'':

* This is explained in ''[[Fire Emblem]]: Path of Radiance'', where it is noted that even the area's naturally occurring sounds are gone (such as animals) indicates they are surrounded.

** ''[[The Legend of Dragoon]]'' observes the exact same phenomenon prior to the nighttime attack on Hoax.

* Parodied? in ''[[Valkyria Chronicles]]''.

* A NPC exchange from ''[[City of Heroes]]'', where the [[Scary Dogmatic Aliens|Rikti]] have taken a human sympathizer hostage, doubles as an inversion of [[Perp Sweating]]:

'''[[Meaningful Name|Lk'Onik]]:''' ...: ...<br />

'''Rikti Captor 2:''' Status Correction: Too Quiet.<br />

'''Lk'Onik:''' [[Lampshade Hanging|...: Heh.]] }}

* From ''[[Evil Dead|Evil Dead: A Fistful of Boomstick]]'':

** And then in ''[[Evil Dead|Evil Dead: Regeneration]]'':

'''Ash''': Yeah, ''too'' quiet. Let's make some noise! }}

* ''[[Dead Rising]]'': This trope is what first tips Frank West off that the situation in the small Colorado town is more than what meets the eye. In his words, "It doesn't sound like civil disobedience. It's too quiet."

* In [[Dragon Age Origins]], at one point in the Dalish Elf origin, Merril mentions that all the woodland animals are silent. She speculates it's because the [[The Virus|Darkspawn]] are in the area. {{spoiler|She's right.}}

* In ''[[Dragon Age II]]'' ''Mark of the Assassin'', as your party searches for signs of a wyvern, it suddenly becomes ''very'' quiet.

* In [[Call of Duty]]: ''World At War'' during the mission Ring of Steel, Sgt. Reznov tells his men to be quiet when they are moving through an asylum:

'''Reznov:''' [[Genre Savvy|No, that is why I am suspicious]]. }}

** Sure enough, there is an ambush up ahead.

* In ''[[Weekenders]]'' when they stay in Lor's house (the house with 13 run-around brothers) after they can't stay in other houses. But they decide to leave instead when it's just too quiet.

* Parodied in ''[[The Simpsons]]'' episode "Lisa's Rival", in a scene at an apiary after all the bees leave to steal Homer's sugar.

'''[[Large Ham|Beekeeper 2]]''': Yes, a little ''too'' quiet...if you know what I mean. <br />

'''Beekeeper 1''': Hmm... I'm afraid I don't. <br />

* Said by Doc in ''[[Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers|Galaxy Rangers]]'' as the team are patrolling the streets of [[Wretched Hive|Tortuna]]. Doc was probably being his usual [[Deadpan Snarker]] self with the comment, but quiet streets on a planet that puts 1700's Port Royale to shame usually ''does'' mean trouble.

* Used in [[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]] episode "Hide n' Seek" by ''[[Kuudere|Raven]]'' of all people:

* In ''[[Taz-Mania]]'', dropped into the middle of one of Wendall T Wolf's neurotic monologues: "..and then the suddenly the jungle gets quiet [insane paranoid [[Aside Glance]]] ''too'' quiet.."

* Used in an episode of the original ''[[Transformers]]'' cartoon. Prowl even [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshades]] it by saying "Yeah, like they say in the movies, too quiet."