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[[File:brown-note 9042.png|frame|[[Classical Mythology|Medusa]] was a [[A Worldwide Punomenon|stone cold]] [[Taken for Granite|killer]].]]
The Brown Note is named for the urban legend about an audio tone that, when played, causes the listener to lose control of their bowels and spontaneously defecate.
Compare [[Words Can Break My Bones]], some of which have similar effects given by single words, written or spoken, and are by magic. See also [[Weapons Grade Vocabulary]] if its simply straight words, spoken or read. Contrast with [[Gale Force Sound]], where the sound has a physical effect, not a psychological one, and [[Incessant Music Madness]], where repetitive music drives a person to distraction. If you aren't affected right off the bat, perhaps [[You Cannot Grasp the True Form]] or [[You Are Already Dead]].
See also [[Loud of War]], [[Make Me Wanna Shout]] and [[Musical Assassin]] for specific forms of sound-based attack. For a practical application in science fiction to showcase harmful energy sources, try [[Showing Off the Perilous Power Source]]. Compare and contrast [[Made of Evil]].
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* ''[[Li'l Abner]]'':
** "Lena the Hyena", was supposedly so ugly that the sight of her face would cause insanity in Dogpatch residents ''and the reader'', so her face wasn't shown at first. Eventually there was a contest to decide what she looked like. [http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/lena.jpg Basil Wolverton won.]
** Stupefyin' Jones was the opposite. She was so stunningly beautiful that any male who looked at her would freeze, rooted to the spot. (She was a deadly hazard for any confirmed bachelor on Sadie Hawkins Day, and she would often use her powers then on purpose, [[For the
* ''[[Dilbert]]'' once [https://dilbert.com/strip/1996-04-25 exposed Ratbert to his company's marketing plan]. It gave the rat a brain tumor.
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* The [[Creepypasta]] Smile.jpg, an image of a dog that causes the viewer to have bizarre nightmares.
** In case you're wondering what it looks like and are resistant to the [[Shmuck Bait]], it's a picture of a husky with demonic eyes and a photoshopped grin on its face. Said nightmares involve the dog telling you to spread the word, meaning that you have to send it to someone else in order to stop the nightmares.
* The "full version" of the [[Creepypasta]] video "Mereana Mordegard Glesgorv" is said to drive the viewer to insanity.
* The Choir from ''[[The Fear Mythos]]'' can distort sounds...and make them shatter glass, rupture eardrums, and ''hemorrhage people's brains''. Luckily, most of the time they seem content to simply [[Driven to Suicide|drive you to suicide]], but if you piss them off...
* The ''[[Doug]]'' theme tune to [[The Nostalgia Critic]]. He called the resulting brain tumor "Pork Chop".
* Many of the eponymous creatures in ''[[STRANGERS|S T R A N G E R S]]'' have effects on people
* Overlapping with [[Suckiness Is Painful]], a common response on imageboards and other sites to posts considered especially bad is to insinuate that the post gave them a deadly disease, usually signified or accompanied by an image of a character in a hospital bed.
== Western Animation ==
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** ''The Tale of Scrotie McBoogerballs'', a [[Show Within a Show|novel within the series]] made by the boys on an episode with the same title. It causes everyone who reads it (with the possible exception of the boys themselves, who just laugh) to vomit from the [[Squick]]y parts ([[Take Our Word for It|which we never hear]]) of it. Apparently, nobody has gotten past the first paragraph without this reaction, and in a game show where you try to listen to the audio books as long as you can, one person threw up after ''2 seconds''.
*** The twist of all this is that despite this reaction, it is agreed-upon in-universe to be an excellent work of literature.
** Another
* ''Mightyman and Yukk'' is one of the [[Three Shorts]] of the late-70s ''[[Plastic Man]]'' cartoon. The titular Yukk is a dog whose face is so ugly that it is continually concealed by a doghouse; when he takes it off, whoever is looking at it would run away in terror, and it could even cause inanimate objects to break.
* In the pilot episode of the [[Revival|revival... episode]] of ''[[Biker Mice From Mars]]'', the Big Bad throws his little evil brother against a wall, and the sound of his claws scratching makes their prisoners wince and cry.
* DethKlok's music on ''[[Metalocalypse]]'' has some unique effects, but they may be supernatural in origin. In "Dethkomedy", it's mentioned that the song "Go Into The Water" caused a million people to literally go into the water and drown. They summon tornadoes in "Bluesklok", a troll in "Dethtroll", and a large amount of fish in "The Metalocalypse Has Begun
** Let's not forget that every time Skwisgaar starts to play a solo, PEOPLE START DYING! Duncan Hills Coffee anyone?
* In ''[[Justice League]]'', the supervillain {{spoiler|Ace of the Royal Flush Gang}} is a human Brown Note. Simply looking into her eyes, even through a television broadcast, can lead to delusions and eventual catatonia. If she really puts her mind to it, the result can last long after she's left or even become permanent. Eventually, her power expands until {{spoiler|she is a full-blown [[Reality Warper]]}}.
* ''[[The Smurfs]]'' dealt with a magic flute that caused anyone who heard its song to fall into a permanent magical sleep.
* ''[[American Dad]]'' has Oscar Gold - a film so sad you will cry to death. It's about a Jewish, retarded, alcoholic boy, in hiding from the Nazis, whose puppy has cancer.
** There's also an even sadder film, consisting of several hours of a baby chimp trying to revive its dead mother, but fortunately it's never released.
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** It's implied (though never stated
* ''[[Futurama]]'' has the Hypnotoad, whose penetrating gaze lulls you into a mindless catatonic state until [[Interrupting Meme|ALL GLORY TO]] [[The Hypnotoad]]!
* An episode of ''[[Batman: The
** "[[Exposition|The fiend!]] [[Magic Music|His voice can hit a pitch]] [[Compelling Voice|that hypnotically controls]] [[Brainwashed|anyone who hears it]]."
* An episode of ''[[Transformers Generation 1]]'', "Carnage in C Minor", features a race of aliens who can produce resonant tones which can cause a variety of effects, from healing to destroying stuff. When working in concert, several such aliens can create a harmonic effect that can be quite devastating, and the Decepticon Soundwave attempts to record this sound to use as a weapon.
* In ''[[World of Quest]]'', saying "witch" near Shrieks causes them to... well, [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|shriek]]. Because they have a long history with witches
* ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'':
*
** ''[[The Ugly Barnacle|Once there was an ugly barnacle. He was so ugly that everyone died. The End.]]''
** The fan-favorite ending of "Band Geeks" features [[The Power of Rock]] so awesome,
* Used in ''[[Gargoyles]]'' when Demona used a spell broadcast via TV to turn everybody who saw and heard the recitation into stone by night. Those who didn't catch the transmission, as well as those who did but were deaf or blind (and thus logically couldn't [[Exact Words|both see]] ''[[Exact Words|and]]'' [[Exact Words|hear]] it), were unaffected.
* The first season of ''[[Code Lyoko]]'' has an episode where [[Big Bad|XANA]] distributes an [[MP3]] through the Internet that sends listeners into a coma.
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{{quote|'''Peter:''' "Stop it, you guys, you're ruining all my clothes!}}
* In the animated version of ''[[Fraggle Rock]]'', Boober finds a scroll that holds "The Funniest Joke in the Universe", which is so funny that anyone who hears it will laugh forever, literally. While most of the main cast falls victim to the curse, Boober does not, because he does not "get" the joke, leaving him the only one able to lead the search for an enchanted spring that can cure them by erasing the joke from their memory. He succeeds in the end... And right in time, because then he ''finally'' gets the joke. Fortunately for him, the spring is nearby.
* In the ''[[Aqua Teen Hunger Force]]'' movie, Shake's horrific self-written song "Nude Love" forces the Insanoflex to kill itself upon hearing it.
* In one episode of ''[[Fish Hooks]]'', Bea attempts to make friends with Albert by playing the violin. [[Dreadful Musician|Her playing is so bad]] Albert's face cracks and his organs fly out.
* ''[[The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!]]'' episode "Stars In Their Eyes" established that certain sounds could disrupt 'Moonman' Koopa's technology. In order to save the
{{quote|'''Koopa:''' You call that ''music?'' Stop that racket!}}
* In ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic]]'', the episode "The Stare Master" features a cockatrice, with the penalty of looking it in the eyes of the "turning to stone" variety rather than "instant death" (after all, this is a ''children's'' show). And {{spoiler|the cockatrice}} has the power to reverse it {{spoiler|if one can convince it that it should stop turning creatures to stone, as Fluttershy successfully does}}.
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«''The odor of diphenyl diselenide is extremely disagreeable but is not nearly so bad as that of selenophenol. [...] The odor of selenophenol is very penetrating, and is nauseating beyond description.''» }}
* [[Twitter]] completely [https://www.digitaltrends.com/social-media/twitter-stops-some-images-animating-to-protect-those-with-epilepsy/ shut down support for Animated PNG] images in 2019, as they were being abused to [https://edition.cnn.com/2019/12/17/tech/epilepsy-strobe-twitter-attack-trnd/index.html send flashing images to photosensitive epilepsy patients].
** Not the first time these issues have arisen
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