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The "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdbYsoEasio Wilhelm Scream]" has been a running joke among sound editors for decades, to the point that [http://www.hollywoodlostandfound.net/wilhelm/ whole websites] exist for tracking its appearances, and the Internet Movie Database often includes instances of the Wilhelm in its trivia entries for movies and shows. Some directors, notably [[Quentin Tarantino]], [[Peter Jackson]] and [[George Lucas]], make a point of using the Wilhelm in all their action movies. It was recorded for and first used in the 1951 film ''Distant Drums'' [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dc5F2C0CYlA when a soldier is attacked by an alligator], and it got its name from the character [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dc5F2C0CYlA Private Wilhelm], who used it in the 1953 movie ''The Charge At Feather River'', the second movie it
=== Anime and Manga ===▼
▲=== Wilhelm Scream Examples: ===
▲The "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdbYsoEasio Wilhelm Scream]" has been a running joke among sound editors for decades, to the point that [http://www.hollywoodlostandfound.net/wilhelm/ whole websites] exist for tracking its appearances, and the Internet Movie Database often includes instances of the Wilhelm in its trivia entries for movies and shows. Some directors, notably [[Quentin Tarantino]], [[Peter Jackson]] and [[George Lucas]], make a point of using the Wilhelm in all their action movies. It was recorded for and first used in the 1951 film ''Distant Drums'' when a soldier is attacked by an alligator, and it got its name from the character Private Wilhelm, who used it in the 1953 movie ''The Charge At Feather River'', the second movie it was used in.
▲== Anime and Manga ==
* The English dub of ''[[Burst Angel]]'' uses "a tribute to" the Wilhelm Scream when a soldier gets shot and falls off a train.
* The uncut version of ''[[Dragonball Z Kai]]'' uses it in episode 34.
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=== Films -- Animated ===
* One of the Rhinos in ''[[Kung Fu Panda]]'' gives one of these during Tai Lung's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_Oj6fx_aJ8 prison escape].
* ''[[Up]]'' features a faint Wilhelm when {{spoiler|Muntz's hounds}} tumble down a cliff.
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=== Films -- Live-Action ===
* [[Once an Episode|All]] ''[[Star Wars]]'' movies use it, most notably a falling Stormtrooper during the Death Star escape in ''[[A New Hope]]'', and when one of Jabba's skiff guards gets knocked into the Sarlacc pit in ''[[Return of the Jedi]]''. (others are: [[The Empire Strikes Back|Stormtrooper in the carbonite chamber]], [[The Phantom Menace|soldier in Naboo hangar]], [[Attack of the Clones|person in Coruscant landing platform]], and [[Revenge of the Sith|clone trooper in exploding ship-to-ship gun]])
** Interesting bit: the sound editor Ben Burtt cameos in ''Jedi'' as an Empire officer. After being punched by Han Solo, he imitates the Wilhelm as he's tossed over the railing. Also, in the 1997 Special Edition a stormtrooper emits one during the celebration scene at the end as the rioting crowd on Coruscant tramples him.
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=== Live-Action TV ===
* ''[[Primeval]]'' had it as a [[Once an Episode]] [[Running Gag]] in the first two seasons.
* ''[[The Middleman]]'' also had it turn up [[Once an Episode]]. The comic adaptation of the unproduced 13th episode also has one henchman scream "Aaaah-aaaargh!", with the commentary at the end pointing out that that was their best approximation of the Wilhelm.
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=== Music ===
* There's also an Australian emo band named after it
* And a Massachusetts hardcore band.
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=== Videogames ===
* In ''[[Mass Effect]] 2'', one person gets blown up, and you can faintly hear this. If you're wondering, it's when Zaeed causes an explosion with his gunfire on his Loyalty mission. One of the Blue Suns mercs (Yeah, Zaeed gets a lot of shoutouts to ''[[Firefly]]'') goes flying, and he does the yell.
* In ''[[Dragon Age Origins]]'', one of the unfortunate soldiers killed by the Archdemon in the cutscene before the final battle gives a Wilhelm as he's sent flying. [[BioWare]] seems to like this.
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=== Webcomics ===
* Spoofed in the Norwegian webcomic ''Tomkat's Troubles & Toils'' where a henchman screams, "[http://www.nettserier.no/tomkat/1193436000/ WILHELM!]" as he falls to his death.
* In a milestone [[Musical Episode]] of [[Brawl in the Family]], a [http://www.brawlinthefamily.com/?p=1886 Wilhelm scream can be heard in the background].
=== Web Originals ===
* The Wilhelm scream appears in the ''Bandwidth Theater'' episode [http://apocrypha.badgods.com/posts/hitman "Hit Man"] as well.
* [[Metamor City]]: In ''Making the Cut,'' one of the guards defending the hospital lets out a Wilhelm as Victor kills him.
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=== Western Animation ===
* Used at the very end in the episode "Memories of Boom Boom Mountain" of ''[[Adventure Time]]''.
* It pops up in ''[[Bionicle]]: The Legend Reborn'' when some Bone Hunters get flattened by a rockslide. It's not the film's only use of stock sound effects.
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=== Advertising ===
* Used in all the Ads for Iron Man Cereal in Australia is the "Howie Long" scream mentioned below.
=== Anime and Manga ===
* The Howie Long Scream is used at the end of the omake that comes with episode 7 of ''[[Mai-HiME]]''.
=== Films -- Live-Action ===
* Left out by the main villain Three Finger in ''[[Wrong Turn 3 Left for Dead]]'' when his [[Outside Ride]] comes to sudden stop.
* Another famous Stock Scream is the Howie Long Scream, named for its best-known appearance in [[John Woo]]'s ''[[Broken Arrow (1996 film)|Broken Arrow]]'', when Howie's villain character was kicked through the wall of a train car and off a bridge, and basically sounds like [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hf6_hok4-lo '''EEERRRAAAUUUAAAGGGHHH!'''] Apparently its official name is "Gut Wrenching With Fall", which frankly sums it up pretty nicely.
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=== Live-Action TV ===
* ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'' dubbed in a Stock Scream for Claire in a recent episode.
** The same female stock scream appears in the ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' season 1 episode ''The Harvest'', and is inexplicably dubbed over the DVD menus of season 5. It also appears in ''[[Dawn of the Dead (film)|Dawn of the Dead]]'' and ''Timestoppers 2''.
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=== Music ===
* A ubiquitous female stock scream appears in ''Wu Tang Clan'''s [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qhjc3AUq1OY The City] at 00:10.
** The same scream is used in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeygI66vbFM "Gunner Down"] from ''[[Descent]] II''.
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=== Videogames ===
* "Howie Long" scream also appears when players click on the Terran "Academy" building in '''[[Starcraft]].''
** The same scream, slightly shortened and increased in pitch, is used as the 'Fast Zombie' cry in ''[[Half-Life 2]]''.
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=== Web Originals ===
* Parodied in ''[[Tomb Raider|Animated Croft]]''. When Lara discovers she has received a bomb in the mail, she lets out the high-pitched stock scream sound from the first four games in the ''Tomb Raider'' series, [[Overly Long Gag|over and over again]]. When Winston hears her he asks what the matter is. When she tells him there's a bomb, he lets out the same scream.
** And that scream is looped in the first ''Tomb Raider'' when she falls down the really long pit.
=== Western Animation ===
* The same "Howie Long" scream mentioned above was also used in the intro of the [[Nickelodeon]] cartoon ''[[Aaahh Real Monsters|AAAHH!!! Real Monsters]]''.
** Used for a quick clip of the Brotherhood in later seasons' openings for ''[[X-Men: Evolution]]''.
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