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[[File:scream.jpg|frame|'''[[Emoticon|:O]]''']]
A character finds something out, sees something frightening or has something utterly horrible happen to them, and as a result, they scream. 😱 Cut to a shot of the surrounding area with the audio of the scream still going, then to the countryside (where it might disturb livestock or a farmer or must cause birds to burst from the brush in a panic), and possibly further back to a shot of Earth from space all the while with the scream still looped in the background (it has been applied to the [[Big No]] as well).▼
▲A character finds something out, sees something frightening or has something utterly horrible happen to them, and as a result, they scream. Cut to a shot of the surrounding area with the audio of the scream still going, then to the countryside (where it might disturb livestock or a farmer or must cause birds to burst from the brush in a panic), and possibly further back to a shot of Earth from space all the while with the scream still looped in the background (it has been applied to the [[Big No]] as well).
Sometimes this is abbreviated by showing the character as they see something frightening or as they inhale, and then [[Distant Reaction Shot|cutting away to a distant location]] while a muted scream plays in the background.
As an alternative, this can be done as an explicit parody of Edvard Munch's painting
Almost universally a comedic trope. If it's not, expect a
For a superpowered version see [[Make Me Wanna Shout]].
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{{examples}}
== Advertising ==
* Used for parody effect in a late 2004 commercial for the "Geek Squad" computer tech support service.
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== Anime and Manga ==
* In ''[[Gundam Wing]]'', when Duo Maxwell sees his Gundam Deathscythe destroyed right in front of him, he lets out an overblown, reaching-into-space scream. When his English voice actor Scott McNeil was asked how he came up with such a scream, he said that it was a copy of a scream he did when his wife was backing out of the driveway and accidentally ran over and damaged his motorcycle.
* Done by Setsuna in episode 23 of ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam 00]]'' when he arrives {{spoiler|too late to save Neil!Lockon}}. Made [[Tear Jerker|even more moving]] by the fact that you see [[The Stoic|him]] [[Not So Stoic|shudder and try unsuccessfully to hold back from crying]], then the camera cuts away to the backdrop of space just as you see his tear stained face and then the scream ensues. {{spoiler|"LOOOOOCKOOOOOOONNNNNN!!!"}}
* In ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist (
** Greed{{spoiler|ling}} pulls off one when he remembers his friend Bido, who {{spoiler|he just killed in cold blood.}}
** Scar does it too at one point, as, in all likelihood, did most of the fanbase after reading [[Wham! Episode|chapters 100 and 104]] of the manga.
** Edward starts off the [[Fullmetal Alchemist (
* Used in an episode of ''[[D
* Used repeatedly in ''[[El-Hazard: The Magnificent World
* ''[[Excel Saga (
* In the twelfth episode of the TV series of ''[[Ah!
* Taken to an extreme in ''[[Pani Poni Dash
* Another example of being caused by anguish, in ''[[Tenchi Muyo!
* In ''[[
* Renton from ''[[
* Cheza from ''[[Wolf's Rain
** Also a potential subversion in the fact that only the wolves seem to notice it. This Troper always thought it was really dog-whistle high (possibly higher) and Toboe was the only one freaking out because the others were old/experienced enough to not piss themselves at high-pitched noises.
*** Another time Cheza screams is near the end, when {{spoiler|Giant-Crazy-Wolf!Darcia hauls her around in his jaws by the '''spine'''.}} Very much on the [[Tear Jerker]] side.
* [[Neon Genesis Evangelion
** ''End of Evangelion'' had a shot where the entire humanity screams when they realized that [[The End of the World
** Asuka [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9Sb9z2cR7E gets in on it], as well.
* A comedic version occurs in ''[[
* Lelouch lets one out in ''[[
** He gets one early on in the first series with his mother's assassination and Nunnally's injury at Aries Villa (in this case, combined with [[Say My Name|Nunnally's name]]). He only screams like this twice in the whole story, and they both ''hurt''.
* A mild instance of the trope is used for comedy in one of the ''[[Harukanaru Toki no Naka
* {{spoiler|Hitsugaya}} from ''[[
** And Loly does this in the manga after Grimmjow tears off her leg and in the anime when he stomps on her instead of tearing off her leg.
** Shinji lets out a good one {{spoiler|in the flashback arc, when he realizes just how badly Aizen screwed him over. Made even more horrifying by the fact that [[Body Horror|he was being hollowfied at the time.]]}}
** Rukia does this after Gin [[Kick the Dog|breaks her resolve with words]].
** Soifon does this as she's being hit with Barragan's "Respira" attack which has ''the power to age flesh and bone into nothingness''.
* Don Para becomes so afraid that he [[Crowning Moment of Funny|literally transforms into the painting for a few second]] in ''[[Dragon Ball
* In the climax of the third ''[[Kara no Kyoukai
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SBWXnQHRl0 The piano scene] from episode 3 of [[
* Shusei does this in episode 10 of ''[[
* Harima from ''[[
* In a tragic example from ''[[
* In ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh (
* An ''epic'' one happens in ''[[Panty
* During episode 15 of ''[[Baccano
* In ''[[Tenchi Muyo!
* One of the ''[[
* Otani of ''[[
* [[Crowning Moment of Funny|Comedic example]] in ''[[
* ''[[Black Butler
* In ''[[Deadman Wonderland]]'' Ganta does this understandably as he's being forced to watch the Carnival of Corpses.
* In ''[[Elfen Lied]]'' Kouta does this after he sees his sister get killed in front of him by Lucy.
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* Used to unique effect with the [[Marvel Universe]] character [[The Inhumans|Black Bolt]], whose voice was a sonic weapon; early in his run, his scream could destroy cities. [[Power Creep, Power Seep|As time went on]], it became his ''whisper'' that could destroy cities. The possibility of him screaming made ''gods'' stand at attention!
** [[Deadpool]] played with this in the game ''[[Marvel Ultimate Alliance]]'', by trying to get Black Bolt to say the word spatula, just to see how much destruction it would cause.
** Used in the ''[[World War Hulk]]'' story to show how tough Hulk was. He didn't come to hear Black Bolt whisper. He came to hear him scream.
** In [[Earth X]], he screams his loudest scream yet, but does not use it for purposes of destruction...
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==
* Happens twice in ''[[Kyon
* Mild example: A couple of times when the father in ''[[Curtis (Comic Strip)|Curtis]]'' hurt his back, his scream accompanied a diagonal view of the outside of the apartment building.▼
* In one ''[[Calvin and Hobbes (Comic Strip)|Calvin and Hobbes]]'' strip, Calvin, upon learning that Rosalyn is coming to babysit again, lets out a large "AAAAAAUUUUUUGGGGGGHHHHHH!" that takes up the top half-inch of the entire strip, and continues throughout the next strip, prompting his mother to say "For heaven's sake, Calvin, take a breath before you pass out on the floor!"▼
▲* Happens twice in ''[[Kyon Big Damn Hero (Fanfic)|Kyon Big Damn Hero]]'', both times when girls are seeing evidence of a voyeuristic illegal photography ring in their school.
== Film ==
* Spoofed in ''[[Over the Hedge (
** Not to mention said light manages to obliterate an orbiting satellite.
*** I think that's a [[Distant Reaction Shot]].
* In the first ''[[Home Alone]]'' movie, when Kevin applies aftershave and "feels the burn."
* ''[[Ferris Bueller's Day Off
* In ''[[The Princess Bride (
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* Done extremely well in ''[[Signs]]''.
* In ''[[Star Trek II:
* Back in the 1930s, this was still serious, and an early scene in ''[[
* Played straight in the 1977 version of ''[[The Wicker Man]]'', with the line "In the name of God, THINK WHAT YOU'RE DOING!" Cut to the sunset, with "doing" echoing. And guess what? It's really creepy.
* Used in ''[[
* The [[Big No]] from Treebeard in ''[[The Lord of the Rings (
** In the same movie, Aragorn finds out he's too late {{spoiler|to rescue Merry and Pippin}}, and he kicks a nearby helmet and lets out a massive scream of frustration. May also count as a [[Skyward Scream]].
*** Made all the more impressive in that Aragorn's actor, Viggo Mortensen, broke his foot kicking the helmet. That scream is genuine.
** In the Extended Edition, Eomer gets a pretty impressive one when he finds {{spoiler|Eowen near death and Theoden dead.}}
* Done often in the ''[[Scream (
** Also, the Ghostface mask looks similar to the aforementioned painting, which may be where the film got its name.
* ''[[
* ''[[Looney Tunes: Back in Action]]'' does this when Bugs, Daffy, and Elmer Fudd chase each other in the Louvre's paintings. Inside Munch's masterpiece, Bugs steps on Elmer's toe, causing him to briefly morph into the "Screamer."
* In ''[[The Dark Knight Saga]]'' this is Falcone's response when Crane sprays the fear toxin in his face. And it's unending too implying that he descended into insanity out of fear.
== Literature ==
* Rincewind does the Munsch pose on the paperback cover of ''[[
== Live-Action TV ==
* A [[Running Gag]] in ''[[
* Used in ''[[Friends]]'', with Ross' repeated enraged cry of "''MY'' SANDWICH???" causing pigeons to take off in fright.
* Used in one of ''[[Coupling]]''`s many point-of-view gags - we see a scene twice, once from Sally's perspective and once from Patrick's. Sally thinks she's seen the eponymous Munch painting on the wall and mutters about how she hates it - when we see it from Patrick's perspective, however, we see that she was very drunk and it is in fact a mirror...
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** Also in season two, a mother's screams at seeing her dead son are heard from the now empty street outside after a gunfight has been broken up by the police.
* ''[[Top Gear]]'' once did this with a [[Cool Car|Mecedes 600 Grosser]]'s horn.
* Reese on ''[[Malcolm in
* Frequently happens in ''[[Sister, Sister]]'' when either Ray or Tia discovers Tamera did something stupid that they are angered at (it's not really a scream as much as them screaming Tamera's name, as it pans out, sometimes even starts in before panning out).
== Newspaper Comics ==
▲* Mild example: A couple of times when the father in ''[[
▲* In one ''[[
== Sculpture ==
* The Edvard Munch painting is reproduced as a relief sculpture on one of the exterior walls of [http://www.groundsforsculpture.org/Artwork/The-Chamber-of-Internal-Dialogue "The Chamber of Internal Dialogue"'] at Grounds for Sculpture in Hamilton, NJ.
== Tabletop Games ==
* This was used in ''[[
* ''[[Warhammer
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* ''[[Time Splitters]] Future Perfect'' has a version where Sgt. Cortez shouts "Goddamnit" so loud, it can be heard approximately 100 years
* ''[[Yume Nikki]]'': {{spoiler|aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA}}
* Very much a non-comedic example
* In ''[[The Legend of Zelda:
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== Webcomics ==
* In ''[[Two Lumps]]'' "The Scream" has been [http://twolumps.net/d/20050801.html spoofed] at least [http://twolumps.net/d/20060703.html twice] so far
* Black Mage from ''[[8-Bit Theater
* In ''[[
** Later, a hapless fan [http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/050602 here].
* In ''[[Dubious Company]]'', Walter needs to upgrade his ship with a homing device in order to find Tiren. [[Leeroy Jenkins]] thinks this is taking too long and decides to help while Walter is sleeping. Walter wakes up to find his [[Cool Ship]] in ruins. Cut to Tiren asking [[The Dragon|Izor]] if he heard that scream.
* ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'' had several screams heard by space aliens: [https://www.egscomics.com/?date=2008-05-07 Catalina], [https://www.egscomics.com/?date=2011-12-09 Adrian Raven], [https://www.egscomics.com/comic/2015-02-13 Sarah], [https://www.egscomics.com/comic/2017-04-14 Pandora].
** And two [[Squee]]s, by [https://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=1632 Elijah] and then [https://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=1712 Elijah and Grace together].
* ''[[Brawl in the Family]]'' had Mario [http://brawlinthefamily.keenspot.com/comic/75-paintings/ explore it]. This was a bad choice.
== Web Originals ==
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* ''[[Dragon Ball Abridged]]''
** Krillin when he sees Vegeta's spaceship landing on Namek. It lasts quite some time and can be heard miles away.
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** Vegeta takes this [[Serial Escalation]] when he realises Gohan stole one of his Dragon Balls. It can be heard across Namek, by Goku in space, by King Yemma in the afterlife, and {{spoiler|by ''Trunks'' on Earth 20 years in the future}}.
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*** The fact that makes this extremely funny is that Trunks' future timeline is canonically established as one of three distinct timelines created by his time traveling into the past. So Vegeta's scream wasn't heard in the future. It was heard in an ''alternate'' future!
*** However since the timeline hasn't diverged by this point, it makes sense that it would be heard in all possible timelines.
* Taking some notes from Who Shot Mr. Burns Part 1, [[
* Noah Antwiler ([[The Spoony Experiment|The Spoony One]]) commits a Scream after being utterly broken by one of the worst PC games of all time, Bloodwings: Pumpkinhead's Revenge. In a parody of/tribute to [[The Princess Bride]], Benzaie hears it and remarks that it is the sound of the Ultimate Suffering.
* ''[[Cracked.com]]'''s Photoplasty [http://www.cracked.com/photoplasty_581_17-famous-images-as-seen-from-different-angle/?view=article Famous Images, As Seen From a Different Angle] shows what the figure in Edvard Munch's painting was screaming at: [[Superman]].
== Western Animation ==
* One episode of ''[[
* From ''[[
{{quote|
'''Lemongrab:''' ''(from far away)'' WHAT?!
'''Princess Bubblegum:''' Hey--you're fired! Ya BUTT!
'''Lemongrab:''' ''(from far away)'' HHHHRRRRRUUURUUUUGGGGHH!!!!!! }}
** There's really no need to add the quote. Lemongrab embodies this trope, all the time.
* In an episode of ''[[Invader Zim]]'', a little girl's scream is heard by The Tallest, who are on a spaceship on the other end of the galaxy.
** You're not mentioning the crowner? In Battle of the Planets, {{spoiler|Zim uses Mars as a giant steamroller to flatten Earth. The planet comes down gently and crushes a man's soda can.}} The man's screams go on for about a minute onscreen without end.
* A variation appears on the first half of the "Who Shot Mr. Burns" episode of ''[[The Simpsons (
** "Dear lord, that's the loudest profanity I've ever heard!"
** Subverted in "Mona Leaves-a". Homer arrives in the living room to apologize to his mother for his jerkish behavior to her lately, but then asks her name when she doesn't respond (as she had died). It cuts to the outside of the house, yet Homer says "...Mother?" in the exact same tone and volume as he did before the cutaway point.
* ''[[
* In episode "A Smith in the Hand" of ''[[
* In an episode of ''[[King of the Hill]]'' when Bobby joins a modeling agency for overweight boys he shows Hank a bunch of pictures they took of him and when he finds they are going put one of him wearing trapdoor pajamas, holding a tray of cookies, and putting his pinky finger to his mouth in the newspaper Hank lets one out that echos.
* In one episode of ''[[
* Used in ''[[Lilo and Stitch (Disney film)|Liloand Stitch]]'' when Pleakley and Jumba spend their first night on Earth, and Pleakley discovers a very ''painful'' truth about one of the so-called wildlife preserve's inhabitants:
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(Cut to a distant shot of their campsite near the house as Pleakley screams in pain) }}
* Done hilariously in an episode of ''[[The Replacements]]'' when all the characters suddenly went into "The Scream" style during a [[GASP]] moment.
* Stewie does this in ''[[
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'''[[Adam Westing|Mayor Adam West]]''': So, it's a shouting match you want, eh, Quahog? Well ''game on''! Aaah aaah aaah aaah aar - I'm beating you! }}
* Goliath in ''[[
* On ''[[Jimmy Two
* ''[[
** Also Chaz after his [[Nightmare Sequence]] of seeing Not!Stu in his house.
* Happens in ''[[Darkwing Duck]]'' Just Us Justice Ducks episode.
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