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[[Footnote Fever|*:]]Actually, the sound of a wombat being stabbed is a scratchy noise of bristles scraping on steel followed by a rather unpleasant "squlorp!" noise, followed by a damp smack of hilt. But "scratch-squlorp-squithud!" lacks a certain pithiness.
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The [[Written Sound Effect]] is a basic technique for illustrating non-dialog sounds in visual media. The text is a transliteration of the sounds, usually written as onomatopoeia. But then some authors will start writing as sound effects words which only ''sound'' like onomatopoeia. "Bash!" and "Kick!" for instance, just happen to sound a bit like the impacts they're describing.
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And then, some authors will take it too far, with words that aren't the least bit like sound effects, and are actually just the ''words'' for that action in loud capital letters. "Glare!" "Leap!" "Flourish!" and even "Idea!"
This is the
This is usually attributed to ''[[Richie Rich (comics)|Richie Rich]]'' in the original Harvey Comics versions, which lasted from the 1950s to the 1980s. They included such effects as "BOUNCE!" for large rubber balls impacting a hard surface, and went on to "EXPAND!" when Richie utilized one of Prof. Keenbean's [[Applied Phlebotinum]] devices meant to go from pocket-size miniature tool/vehicle/etc. to full-size.
It's worth noting that [[Manga]] has different but similar conventions regarding onomatopoeia. Manga has much more than can be done with an
And sometimes, the sound effect isn't even written. A [[Super
Related to [[Editorial Synaesthesia]]. See also [[Visible Silence]], the Unsound Effect for ''no'' sound; and [[Sound Defect]] for real sounds that go wrong. When this occurs ''in-universe'' it's [[Saying Sound Effects Out Loud]].
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== Advertising ==
* It is common practice for closed captioning to caption sound effects as well. There is a Windex ad in which the mother cleans a window with Windex to let the sun shine in and wake up her kids. The kids rush out while the mother
== Anime
* In ''[[One Piece]]'' Chimney did her own sound effect for staring (jiiiiiii).<ref>"Jii..." is for some reason the Japanese onomatopoeia for staring.</ref>
** In [https://web.archive.org/web/20111003205116/http://www.mangafox.com/manga/one_piece/v20/c181/15.html this page] during the Alabasta arc, the camel in the last panel gets, appropriately, ''CAMEL!!''
** When Zoro battles with Kaku in Enies Lobby, he is so underwhelmed and shocked by the lameness of Kaku's semi-human form he says "You look like sh*t!" To which Kaku says "GABEEN!!"<ref>"Gabeen" is the Japanese onomatopoeia for a jaw-drop or similar shocked reaction.</ref>
* The "Kaa" onomatopoeia is seldom used for a blinding sunlight in manga. The same sound effect is also used for [[Luminescent Blush
* The ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' manga does this a lot. Of course, this is probably due to the translators being very faithful to the original; during a silent scene you'll see the giant "shiiiin" kana with tiny English "the sound of silence" written underneath.
** There's also a rather humorous "[[Pettanko]]" sound effect when Anya first sees Yue and Nodoka.
** When Negi goes all out the [[Kanji]] for "Destruction" appears when he hits someone.
** Having a sound for silence can actually be done quite seriously. In the ''[[
* The anime versions of ''[[Pani Poni Dash!]]'', ''[[Lucky Star]]'', ''[[
** Russia does this too in one episode of the anime of [[Axis Powers Hetalia]] - as in, he actually says "jiiiiiii..." while staring at someone. A second later, he does it again, only louder. The other character looks severely uncomfortable by this point.
** Also in ''[[Sayonara, Zetsubou
** The later seasons of ''[[Sayonara, Zetsubou
** [[Lucky Star]] also has "ira-ira" appear as Kagami gets progressively more irritated with Tsukasa's attempts at texting.
** Tsukasa goes into lala-land about something, and she actually makes the sound "kira-kira" while her eyes twinkle. (This might even have been preserved in the English dub, with "twinkle-twinkle".)
* Manga publisher Tokyopop used to do this, with some such sounds including "Stand", "Glare" and "Turn".
** Probably one of the funnier ones was "Cadillac!" in ''[[Duklyon: Clamp School Defenders]]''.
* The manga ''[[MPD Psycho]]'' employs this trope in both humorous and straight forms, for instance, when Amamiya's glasses gleam with light, the other characters swear they can hear the "shing" noise that results. An example of the serious form of the trope in action is the "dokun" or "kadoom" noise that indicates Amamiya's personality changing.
* A burn victim in ''[[Detective Conan]]'' had a speech balloon reading "mouthing words" or something to that effect, having been too injured to say anything discernible.
* From ''[[
* ''[[Ouran High School Host Club]]'', with [[Giving Someone the Pointer Finger|"POINT"]].
* One translation of the [[Hentai]] doujin ''Blue Eyes'' featured such sound effects as "ORGASM!", "CLIMAX!", and possibly funniest of all of all, "KA-FUCK!"
* In the space of two pages in the first chapter of ''[[Pandora Hearts]]'', we have "GRAB," "FIDGET," "SURPRISE," and of course, "THREATENING ATMOSPHERE."
* ''[[Otome Kikan Gretel]]'' has a rather freaked out Yuu with the effect "[https://web.archive.org/web/20091008220233/http://www.mangafox.com/manga/otome_kikan_gretel/v01/c002/24.html startle]." (next to, of course, someone who [[Say It
** The very next page has [https://web.archive.org/web/20091006131250/http://www.mangafox.com/manga/otome_kikan_gretel/v01/c002/26.html "Confused" and "Realization" on the same panel, then "The Culprit" immediately after]
* ''[[Chi's Sweet Home]]'' uses a number of these, including things like [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/chii_s_sweet_home/v02/c032/7.html "dejected"] and [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/chii_s_sweet_home/v02/c033/9.html "loom."]
* When the author of ''[[Kaiji]]'' discovered there wasn't an onomatopoeia for dramatic tension, he invented his own: ZAWA.
** He also uses this same sound in his other works, like ''[[Akagi]]'' and ''[[Gambling Emperor Legend Zero]]''.
* Manga such as ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'', ''[[Bleach]]'', and ''[[Shaman King]]'' often throw "DOOM" on dramatic panels. Even more dramatic panels might get "[[Doomy Dooms of Doom|DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM]]".
* In ''[[Doctor Slump]]'', [[Genki Girl]] Arale's greetings are so loud and boisterous that the sound effect for it ("KON'CHWA!", approximately, due to a [[Verbal Tic]]) easily dwarfs her and knocks the people she greets off their feet. The aliens attempt to weaponize this power, but fail every time.
* Fai of ''[[Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle]]'' starts saying "Fiuuu" instead of whistling, for which [[Lampshade Hanging|Kurogane mocks him]]. {{spoiler|It later [[Subverted Trope|turns out]] that he did that because his whistling has magical powers, though.}}
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* The presence of a [[Battle Aura]] or similar mind state (even an unshown one) is often accompanied with a "go go go ..." ("ゴ ゴ ゴ ...").
* As demonstrated by the above examples, manga has sound effects for everything. There's even a sound effect to indicate silence.
**
* One episode of ''[[Soul Eater]]'' parodies this trope. A fistfight between two gangs features such
* In ''[[
* [[Higurashi no Naku Koro
* ''[[
* The ''[[Ranma
** We also got LOOOOOOOOM for bad guys looking [[Badass]] followed by a much smaller <small>LOOOOM</small> for the good guys trying to but not managing it.
* ''[[A Lollipop or A Bullet]]'' features a non-humorous in-universe example when [[New Transfer Student|newly-arrived]] [[Strange Girl]] Umino Masachika introduces herself to the class:
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'''Masachika:''' Bow.
'''Nonplussed Student:''' She actually said "Bow"! }}
* By the fourth episode of ''[[Panty
** A crowning example occurs in Episode 11: Panty is channel-surfing, and while we can't see the TV, we can see the [[Written Sound Effect
*** Perhaps the third was a random [[Buddy Cop Show]]?
* During an undersea episode early in the [[Keroro Gunsou]] anime, Keroro's platoon accidentally fire several torpedos at a city on the bottom of the sea. He hopes they all miss, but...they all hit. All of them. Direct hits too. The platoon's reaction can only be described as "Atmosphere of [[Oh Crap|Oh Shit]]".
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** At least one scanlator translated the sound made by Madara teleporting to some place as "appear".'
** Deidara's explosions are always preceded by '''Yeeaagh!''' in the English manga. This lends itself to a [[Woolseyism]] when some of his bombs land near Tobi:
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* ''[[Kenichi:
* Misaki's "INDIRECT KISS!" in ''[[Junjou Romantica]]''
* The everpresent "WOW~!" used to punctuate fanservice in ''[[Fairy Tail]]''.
* '''[[Nichijou|GASCOIGNE!]]'''
* One [[Scanlation]] of the ''[[Yumekui Merry]]'' manga uses "{{
* [[Houou Gakuen Misoragumi]] has sounds effects such as [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/houou_gakuen_misoragumi/v01/c001/15.html 'gets up'] and [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/houou_gakuen_misoragumi/v01/c002/17.html 'barf']
* ''[[
* [[Yuru
== Comic Books ==
* [[Acme Novelty Lirary]] by [[Chris Ware]], auther of [[Jimmy Corrigan,
* In ''[[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]]'', at least one X-Babies encounter ("Mojo Mayhem") has gone this way (with arguing murmurs written as "argue" or "debate" or "mutter" and the like.)
** [[Chris Claremont]] (as noted above, since he wrote the X-Babies storyline) tended to use this device, especially toward the end of his stint on Uncanny X-Men. In one issue we see an angry mob in the distance, and as they approach their angry murmuring is expressed as unsounds expressing their intent to do horrible things to the object of their wrath, such as [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|"murder," "mutilate," "bludgeon", and "sue
** In one issue by Claremont, Jubilee is served some [[Foreign Queasine]] and reacts with "That's it, that's it, that's IT!", followed by a speech bubble simply saying "hate, scream, cry, rage, rant, gripe, shriek!"
* Subverted in an issue of the ''[[The Mighty Thor|Thor]]'' comic book, where the Hulk hits Thor with an entire freight train (complete with attached cars). The editor's note on the page confesses that there's no onomatopoeia there because nothing they could think of would do the scene justice.
** The same thing happened when [[Fantastic Four (Comic Book)|the Thing]] punched Sandman into his component particles while both were underwater.
* ''[[
** Another comic features a massive five-way collision accompanied by "HORRENDOUS UNSPELLABLE SOUND EFFECT!"
** Wally Wood once told a detective story entirely in pictures and exaggerated sound effects (with a couple of unsounds). All the murder victims produced the same sequence of AAAARGH!..THUD...BOUNCE BOUNCE and, in the first case the guy who had been shot rounded off with a quiet BLEED BLEED. The detective was quite mystified by the screams until he realized that the killer was {{spoiler|one Joe Aaaargh, alias Joe Eeeech, alias Joe Uuuuugh.}}
* The ''New Yorker'' had a cartoon by Roz Chast called "No Action Comics." It had sound effects like "MULL! MULL!" and "WORRY! WORRY!"
** Similarly, ''[[The Daily Show]]'' featured a comic mocking [[George W. Bush]] with sound effects such as "STALL!".
* [[Tiny Titans]] gives us some like [[It Makes Sense in Context|CHAIR!]] and [[It Makes Sense in Context|TIE!]]
* Frequently used in ''[[Twisted
** A much, much later strip features [[Christian Bale]] interrupting the Manly Men of Action's dancing with the sound effect of "record screeching to a halt!" [[Dolph Lundgren]] then displays his musical talent by playing a drum solo; the sound effect is "Drum Solo!"
* ''[[Spider-Man]]'': [https://web.archive.org/web/20160614171746/http://www.superdickery.com/walrus-man/ BUTTT!]
* German comic artist ''Ralf König'' is good at this. he rather describes the mood of scenes with his unsounds. One scene shows a guy laying in bed, hearing "sounds" like "cooking coffee" and "doorclap".
* ''[[The Tick (animation)]]'' is also fond of this, with the best being "CONTEMPLATE!"
** In the first issue, The Tick and Clark Oppenheimer are fighting in a subway tunnel, when a train hits them, making the following noises: *BANG* *CRASH* *REALLY LOUD NOISE!*
** *TUSSLE*
* Amerimanga ''[[Ninja High School]]'' has used literal sound effects from the beginning of its run. They do sort of mirror manga's onomonepetic effects, but Ben Dunn has admitted he got the idea from ''Richie Rich''.
** One example: a character lifts a huge tree out of the ground, to the sound of '''*UPROOT*'''
** The [[Time Travel
* The ''[[City of Heroes]]'' comic has a [[Mook]] cry out in pain: ''"MMORPG!!"''
* ''De Familie Fortuin'', a Dutch comic about the titular white trash family, has used such sound effects as '''*ENORMOUS EXPLOSION! FLYING BODY PARTS! BLEEDING GUMS! [[Rule of Cool|COOL MAN]]!*''' and '''*EXPLODING SCHOOL WITH EVERYONE INSIDE*'''.
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* Unsound effects were used a lot in Erika Fuchs's German Disney translations (one of her more creative ones was where "censored" was replaced by "Einziger Aufschrei der erregten Massen" (single outcry of the excited masses"). German-speakers brought up on Fuchs' Donald Duck comics will sometimes use such unsound effects like "grübel, grübel" (ponder, ponder), and at conventions of the D. O. N. A. L. D. (Deutsche Organisation Nichtkommerzieller Anhänger des lauteren Donaldismus = German Organisation of Non-Commercial Adherents of Pure Donaldism) they customarily applaud by chanting "klatsch, klatsch, klatsch!" (clap, clap, clap!).
* [http://misterkitty.org/extras/stupidcovers/stupidcomics109.html BOWL!] (Note that it's not the sound of bowling; it's the sound of some guy going to a bowling alley. Yeah.) Also, [http://www.misterkitty.org/extras/stupidcovers/stupidcomics103.html DREAM! MAGIC!]
* ''[[The Incredible Hercules]]'' no longer even ''tries'' to have standard sound effects. Instead, the sound of an impressive punch to the face is ''WHATAMANNN'', a dragon's firebreath goes ''[[The Hobbit (novel)|SMAAAAAAAAAUG]]'' and an attack aimed squarely at the opponent's nipples is represented with a bright purple ''NURP''.
** Arguably the best sound effect ever: Hercules smashing a wall while impersonating Thor: GODDATHUNDAA!
** Hercules punching Thor in the face in mid-sentence: SUKKAPUNCH!
** The sequel miniseries, ''Prince of Power'', carries on the grand tradition with getting chucked into a table being IKKKEA!, among others.
* Archie's ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog (
* ''[[Scott Pilgrim]]'' has a number of these, including "GLARE", "FLING", the rather puffy and cute "POUT", and "BOSS FIGHT."
** The [[Scott Pilgrim vs. the World|live-action movie]] has these, too, like "HOP".
* Brandon Graham's ''King City'' has "TOAST" as a sound effect for when some bread pops out of a toaster.
* In ''[[
* ''Hate'' does this a lot.
* ''[[Scud the Disposable Assassin]]'' uses such sound effects as "KICK UP!" (Scud kicking a Mook's laser cannon out of the way) and "GROSS!" (A character getting his head graphically blown apart)
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* At least one Matt Howarth comic used the effect "REALLY LOUD SOUND BUT YOU CAN'T HEAR IT" repeated over and over in the background of a panel for some kind of [[Reality Warper|reality warping]] effect.
* Whenever superspeedster the Blur uses his powers in ''Grounded'', the sound effect is "Sonic ''BOOM''!"
*
* Brazilian comic ''[[Monica's Gang]]'' has a huge slew of onomatopoeia, but a few enter this trope, such as "COICE" (Portuguese for horse kick) and "HOPPITY" (to which a character asks "[[No Fourth Wall|what kind of onomatopoeia is that?]]").
* In ''[[The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck]]'', "The Cowboy Captain of the Cutty Sark", our intrepid hero experiences the Krakatoa explosion firsthand (he did, however, stuff his ears full of cotton, which somehow worked). We are treated to a beautiful rendition of the explosion, but the sound-bubble only contains an asterisk. A note from the editor points out:
{{quote|
* The [[Wallace and Gromit]] comic ''Anoraknophobia'' had sound effects including "LOUD CLICK" and "DEEP GLOOM AND CONCERN".
* ''[[PS238]]'' has [http://ps238.nodwick.com/comic/02022011/ ''MOOSE!'']
== Fan
* From ''[[Calvin and Hobbes: The Series
* In the ''[[Sailor Moon]]''/''[[Ranma ½]]'' [[Fuku Fic|crossover]] ''[[Relatively Absent]]'', Luna (a talking cat) says "Um, meow?" when she realizes that Usagi's mother Ikuko has heard every word she said in a moment of panic.
* Similar to the ''Relatively Absent'' example, ''[[Isekai by Moonlight]]'' has Artemis be the one caught talking:
{{quote|Ichigo-san looked at Artemis. "Did you just say the word 'nyan' instead of purring?"
"Don't be silly..." Naru-san said,}}
:* It became a [[Brick Joke]] three chapters later:
{{quote|"Did you just say the word 'squee' instead of squeeing?" Artemis asked.
"Don't be silly," Ichigo-san replied with a grin.}}
== Film ==
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** '''DEATH GLARE.'''
* In the movie ''[[Despicable Me]]'', Gru [[Saying Sound Effects Out Loud|actually says "Lightbulb" whenever he gets an idea]].
* [[Simon Pegg]]'s character in ''[[Hot Fuzz]]'' says "idea" when, well, [[Exactly What It Says
* Being based on the 1960s live-action TV series, ''[[Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders]]'' uses Unsound Effects in its fight scenes, and adds a few new ones (including "Spork!" and "[[Zot!]]")
== Literature ==
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== Live
* The "Bicycle Repairman" sketch from ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'' has intertitle cards with effects like: "Screw!", "Bend!", "Inflate!", and "Alter Saddle!"
* The 1960s ''[[Batman (TV series)|Batman]]'' TV series had sound effects in every fight scene, and always slipped a few unsounds in as well (e.g. "Sock!" or "Ouch!").
** ''[[The Monkees]]'' parody this in one episode with a fight that has words like Rumble! Plink! Plank! Plunk! Miss! Foo! Bing! Bong! Bang! Splat! Kretch! Plop! Splinter! on the screen. (At the word Kretch, Peter Tork stops fighting, [[Breaking the Fourth Wall|looks into the camera]], and says, "Kretch???" before they agree to stop fighting and start breaking furniture.)
** ''[[The Avengers (TV series)|The Avengers]]'' also parodies this in "The Winged Avenger". At the end of the episode, Steed fights the villain by hitting him with poster-sized mockups of comic book panels, each containing a word like "Pow!" and "Splat!" Meanwhile, "Batman"-like music is playing in the background.
* When a piece of viewer mail on ''[[Attack of the Show
* ''[[The Muppet Show]]'' did a sketch entirely in action and spoken sound/unsound words. It started with a creature (possibly played by Animal{{verify}}) trudging through the wilderness while muttering "trudge trudge trudge" until it got interrupted by something flying past with a loud "FLY! FLY!" which made it stop and go "ponder... ponder... ponder..." as it, well, pondered the strange event. After this had happened a couple of times the wanderer lost its patience and went "fret foam" as it picked up a heavy stick, and the next time the flyer passed it got stopped by a massive SMASH SMASH!
* On ''[[The Tonight Show]]'', Conan O'Brien visits a Foley stage and makes his own sound effects, including a shout of "Throw baby!" when a character throws a baby.
* While the well-loved "Sound Effects" game in ''[[Whose Line Is It Anyway?]]'' tends to slip into [[Saying Sound Effects Out Loud]] instead, a recent session in ''[[
** During one game of "Props", Wayne had to somehow mime being a lamp that was turned on. So he just simply said "ON!" loudly.
== Music ==
* [[PDQ Bach|P.D.Q. Bach]]'s ''Good King Kong Looked Out'' has a choir ''[[Saying Sound Effects Out Loud|singing]]'' an
* In ''[[Stan Freberg]] Presents The United States of America'', Christopher Columbus' crew indicate their displeasure with a chant of "rumble rumble rumble, mutiny mutiny mutiny". This has achieved a [[Memetic Mutation]] status, and Tyne Daly mentioning the phrase to Freberg got her a role in the sequel to the program.
* On the [[The Who|Who]] song "A Quick One While He's Away," the band had originally planned to have a cello accompaniment in one section. But the money ran out, so the band just sang "cello cello cello cello" in the background over and over.
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** Another strip has Linus telling Charlie Brown that it's "soppping wet" outside. Charlie Brown remarks "I think you mean sopping wet", followed by Snoopy walking in accompanied by sound effects of "SOPPP SOPPP SOPPP".
** In yet another strip, one of Snoopy's bird friends goes, "Gripe gripe gripe, complain complain complain, crab crab crab," after which Snoopy wonders, "If he doesn't like it, why does he go there every year?"
* One ''[[Bloom County]]'' featured the wonderfully memorable "{{
* A ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]'' strip has Calvin walking around in galoshes that go "galosh galosh galosh".
** In a school strip, the teacher asks Calvin to name the old capital of Poland, and hears him mutter, "KRAKOW! KRAKOW!" which happens to be the right answer but is really a sound effect from his [[Imagine Spot]] about Spaceman Spiff fighting aliens.
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** Or (from the underground press) "Print print print".
* There is a ''[[Garfield]]'' comic where Garfield is unscrewing a saltshaker with the sound effect '''*unscrew*''' hanging in midair. It's unclear how that sounds any different from just plain ol' screwing.
** Pictured
* One ''[[FoxTrot]]'' strip used '''*crank*''' and '''*uncrank*''' for the sound of someone turning up, then turning down, a thermostat.
* ''[[For Better or For Worse]]'' is in love with this
** Another, dealing with Elly's frustrations with a fax/copier, had UNPLUG, although the design of the balloon made it ambiguous whether that was a sound effect or Elly loudly vocalizing the action as a form of venting.
* A ''[[Zits]]'' strip showed Jeremy taking a test, with the Unsound Effect "Essay! Essay! Essay! Essay! Essay!"
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== Video Games ==
* In ''[[Pokémon Gold and Silver|Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver]]'', you have to help a Kimono Girl whose sandals are frozen to the ground in the [[Slippy
* [[
* The instruction manual for the [[
* [[Final Fantasy VI|*gobble* *snarf* *snap* HP/MP restored, and status ailments like Poison cured!]]
* In ''[[
** Subsequent updates have added "MINI CRIT" (from the Jarate and Buff Banner), "MISS" (from [[Caffeine Bullet Time|Bonk]]), and "YIKES!" (being scared by the ghost in the Halloween event map.
** [http://www.teamfortress.com/war/saxtonhale/ This] Saxton Hale comic has soundeffects that include "BRAVE JUMP" and "FLAWLESS ROLL"
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*** '''''[http://www.teamfortress.com/bidwells_big_plan/ NEMESIS KICK!]'''''
*** Not even Saxton's ancestor Barnabus is immune to this. '''''[http://www.teamfortress.com/loosecanon/04.html COUGAR!]'''''
*** The Smissmass Update also brings us '''COMPOUND ELEVATED SKULL FRACTURE'''.
* Any Valve game since ''[[
* The planting of a Doom-Shroom in ''[[
* In ''[[
* [[
* A cheat in ''[[
* In ''[[Super Mario Bros
* An April Fool's joke for ''[[City of Heroes]]'' was that all in-game sounds would be replaced with onomatopoeia, including for [[Memetic Mutation|energy-based attacks]] [[Turn Signals
* ''[[Persona 3]]'' has "GLARE" appear occasionally.
* In ''[[Brutal Legend]]'', there is a scene where Ophelia stabs a Druid. SHANK!
* ''[[Freedom Force]]'', as a homage to the [[Silver Age]], features this in spades. ''Every'' attack has an
* In fanworks based on ''[[Touhou]]'', the "ZUN!" unsound effect is popular. It's often used for dramatic or shocking moments. It's a reference to ZUN, the pen name of the series creator.
* In ''[[
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** Also, [http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail194.html Gunshots in a Crowded Mall].
** One more: [http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail195.html "SHAKESPEARED!"]
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20131030101138/http://www.homestarrunner.com/404error.html 404'd!!!]
** And in the [http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail204.html dictionary] sbemail: "Hurl!" "Tooth!", actually [[Saying Sound Effects Out Loud|SAID by Strong Bad and Homestar respectively]].
* [[
* One segment from ''[[AMV Hell]] 4'' involved a ''[[Paranoia Agent]]'' / Batman mash-up. In it, Shonen Bat/Lil' Slugger is beating down people with his bat, while the typical [[Written Sound Effect]] staples seen in Adam West's Batman. The last one of the bunch (it's very briefly seen; you have to be quick to catch it) is OMGWTF!. The clip was titled [[Incredibly Lame Pun|"Shonen Batman"]].
* The Ogres on ''[[Unforgotten Realms]]'' frequently mutter the words "Ogre Sounds" to no one in particular.
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==
* In ''[[The Optimist]]'': [http://the-opt.com/?p=992 EXPIRE], [http://the-opt.com/?p=794 THROW], [http://the-opt.com/?p=125 GOUGE], [http://the-opt.com/?p=49 FLEX & SWELL], [http://the-opt.com/?p=56 REND & MASTICATE], [http://the-opt.com/?p=69 SUBMIT & REFRESH], [http://the-opt.com/?p=88 FOLD], and [http://the-opt.com/?p=476 this comic] and [http://the-opt.com/?p=1299 this comic] have multiple examples. [http://the-opt.com/?p=1229 This comic] has a very large unsound effect as a punchline.
* [http://www.flyingmanandfriends.com Flying Man and Friends] uses "scamper" as a sound effect in [https://web.archive.org/web/20110828074608/http://www.flyingmanandfriends.com/?p=373 this strip].
* ''[[Erfworld]]'', as pictured above. Also includes sound effects like "Warn", "Sweep", or even [https://web.archive.org/web/20130830161058/http://www.giantitp.com/comics/erf0120.html "redox"]. Interestingly, it avoids this trope more often than not, sometimes confusing readers as to what the sound effect represents. For example, some were unsure what "free-deep" was, until it was explained that it was a cricket chirp.
** Some of the comic's pop-culture references are written into sound effects (e.g. "NWOBHM"
** The joke of the '''PLOT''' effect is, of course, that it is ''also'' representing the sound of what's happening.
** Other sound effects include [https://web.archive.org/web/20130830170334/http://www.giantitp.com/comics/erf0139.html "YTMND," "NSFW," and "4CHAN."]
*** And the incantation for the spell that caused the "NSFW" sound effect was "[[Shock Site|Lemonparty, Tubgirl, Meatspin, Goatse]]." The epitome of NSFW sites.
** And someone was killed by the sound effect RROD referring to the [[Xbox
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20090907142440/http://www.antiheroforhire.com/d/20060501.html Nicely parodied] by [[Antihero for Hire]].
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20200811063441/http://
* Done at least [http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=429#comic once] in ''[[Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal]]''. Well, what sound would you expect when you [[British English|lamp]] someone with a lamp?
* ''Framed!!!'' used effects like "walk" for walking.
* ''[[
** Also, the sound effect [[Law of Inverse Recoil|"RECOILLESS"]] [http://deadwinter.cc/page/260.htm here.]
* ''[[Sinfest]]'' uses this nearly every other strip, notably [
** [[The Bully|The bullies]]' attack on Crimney had no words in the entire panel, but many sound effects, and unsound effects such as [
* ''[[
** Also, ''GC'' deserves props for possibly being the first ever use of "[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=511 Blink]" for something ''completely unrelated'' to [[Squeaky Eyes]].
** This is [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] by the author in the footnotes of this page: [http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=268 "Single bound!"].
*** There's also, for a door slamming, "[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=588 SLAM]" and then "SLAM AGAIN"
* ''Badass Muthas'' does [https://web.archive.org/web/20130518160131/http://badassmuthas.com/pages/comic.php?7 this].
* "Sucker Punch'd!" in many ''[[Dan and
** DMFA also had "De-Pantsu'd!" and "De-Dressu'd!".
** And "Ker-Pwned!"
** And now: "[http://www.missmab.com/Comics/Vol_1176.php (magical) SUCKERPUNCH!]"
* ''[[User Friendly]]'' had some 'interesting' sounds for coffee brewing: "sizzle", "congeal", "fold proteins", "curdle", "sprout". Of course, given that previous coffee-brewing efforts have intentionally created a brew that has the properties of [[Alien (
** In another strip, when someone was writing a program to trick someone else, the Unsounds were 'Code Plot Plan' as he was typing.
* ''[[No Need for Bushido]]'' uses these in nearly every comic.
** Some that stand out are [https://web.archive.org/web/20130605205114/http://noneedforbushido.com/2007/comic/269/ Holycrap!] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20130605204147/http://noneedforbushido.com/2007/comic/271/ Head... Butt!]
** '''[https://web.archive.org/web/20130605205041/http://noneedforbushido.com/2009/comic/365/ Oh? No!]''' '''[https://web.archive.org/web/20130605205041/http://noneedforbushido.com/2009/comic/365/ He Didn'!]'''
** Also, [https://web.archive.org/web/20130605203625/http://noneedforbushido.com/2009/comic/368/ It's A Trap!]
** And, [https://web.archive.org/web/20130605204818/http://noneedforbushido.com/2009/comic/375/ '''REBUTTAL!''']
** Not to forget, [https://web.archive.org/web/20130607104220/http://noneedforbushido.com/2006/comic/236/ Hat!]
** One of the greatest of all time has to be [http://nn4b.com/comic/508 IMPLAUSIBLE!], the unsound of a key flying through the air, inserting itself into the lock, and then turning.
* ''[[
** [http://drmcninja.com/page.php?pageNum=6&issue=15 SICKNASTY!]▼
**
▲** Also, [https://web.archive.org/web/20090202073718/http://drmcninja.com/page.php?pageNum=
** [http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/0p13 CEASE AND DESISTED!]
** Played with left to right and back to front [https://web.archive.org/web/20090901195450/http://drmcninja.com/page.php?pageNum=10&issue=15 here.] '''WHCRUNCH'''<ref>Weird that the motorcycle guy landed right where Doc had painted ''WHCRUNCH'' in his parking lot. Because that's probably exactly what it sounded like.</ref>
** [http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/23p03 MAGIC!] Followed by the [[Alt Text]] admission "I uh... I couldn't figure out a sound effect."
* ''[[The Wotch]]'' and its spinoff ''Cheer!'' do this heavily, with examples such as: [[Gender Bender|*Ka-girl*
** Both series use them to the point that an actual sound effect in either goes on to become pretty rare, and there's a running gag of "ka-something" sounds. "Ka-zap" eventually becomes "Ka-*effect here* " which is how "ka-girl" got started (and eventually became a verb. "Why am I always the one you ka-girl for a joke?") Eventually, you have stuff like "Ka-annoyed!" after too many transformations, and "Ka-meraderie!" when 32 tries to gloss over the fact that ''nobody'' believes she's the person she's standing in for by acting all chummy. The best is "ka-asking-for-it!"
*** [https://web.archive.org/web/20080522040457/http://cheer.thewotch.com/index.php?date=20060706 "Pretty Cosmic Crystal Rainbow Overhead Smash!"]
*** [https://web.archive.org/web/20140407024415/http://www.cheercomic.com/?date=2006-06-06 "1812 Overture'd"]
* [http://www.middlecenter.com/comic/display.php?pg=30 These] [http://www.middlecenter.com/comic/display.php?pg=69 two] ''[[The Heroes of Middlecenter]]'' strips.
* [http://pasteldefender.com/222.html Here's a variation from ''Pastel Defender Heliotrope'' (panel 4)]
* In ''[[
** And also "insert rather ordinary door bell sound here".
* [[Grey Is
* ''[[Zebra Girl]]'' uses this in one strip, alongside a [[Clue From Ed|Message From Ed]] that states that the creator has no idea what the actions depicted would actually sound like, so he's just gonna make things up.
* [http://www.alessonislearned.com/index.php?comic=6 This] ''[[A Lesson Is Learned but The Damage Is Irreversible]]'' comic uses "GASOLINE". Others used include "MOONROCK" and "COMBINE".
* "Bang" not for you? ''Gone with the Blastwave'' has [https://web.archive.org/web/20110722020602/http://www.blastwavecomic.com/index.php?p=comic&nro=40 -BULLET SOUND-]
** Don't forget the legendary "shotgun" sound from the impossible to find green comic.
* ''[[
* ''[[
** '''[http://www.nuklearpower.com/2006/04/08/episode-682-pointless-retribution/ ORGY OF VIOLENCE]'''
** ''[http://www.nuklearpower.com/2005/03/19/episode-529-the-beast-in-the-cave/ BOMBASTIC CLASSICAL MUSIC! -- Ominous Latin Chorus ~] [[Ominous Latin Chanting|Ominous Latin Chorus]]''
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** [http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/2964.html TRANSCEND!]
** [http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/3032.html ICE!]
* ''[[Adventurers
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20100604044021/http://www.adventurers-comic.com/d/20020725.html Sound associated with a falling safe!]
* ''[[Sparkling Generation Valkyrie Yuuki]]'': [http://www.sgvy.com/archives/Edda5/Issue7/Page1.html *non-squish non-squish* ]
* A staple in ''[[Beaver and Steve]]'' comics.
* ''[[Stickman and Cube|T-T-T-TIMEWARP!]]''
** ''[[Spamusement]]'' has [https://web.archive.org/web/20131208081632/http://spamusement.com/index.php/comics/view/290 "KER-TIME-TRAVEL!"]
* ''[[
** Also [http://www.galactanet.com/comic/view.php?strip=579 this strip], which has "Silence" amongst others.
* From ''[[Bigger Than Cheeses]]'': [http://www.biggercheese.com/index.php?comic=678 SPINE!]
** Also "SMITE!" and "Headdesk!" and probably a few more.
** BOJANGLES! serves both as a description of WHAT is getting hit and a pretty damn good
** SPLODE!
* [http://www.bmoviecomic.com/?cid=238 Bludgeon! Scythe!]
* ''[[Loserz]]'' had "Flee!" in [https://web.archive.org/web/20080806103650/http://bukucomics.com/loserz/index.php?comicID=61 this strip], "Stampede!" in [https://web.archive.org/web/20080603195401/http://bukucomics.com/loserz/index.php?comicID=68 this one], and also "Splurge!" and probably more.
* ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20131106160340/http://amazoness.co.uk/4.htm Amazoness!]'' gives us "Maim!" "Eviscerate!" "Impale!" "Slice!"
* The [http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=108 Face Full Of Alien Wing Wong] ''[[VG Cats]]'' script has "icky noise" in the penultimate frame.
** [http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=190 This one] has *monocle*
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** [http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=300 *DERP!*]
* Jeph Jacques uses these quite frequently. Notable and amusing examples include:
** The reviving effects of [http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=535 CAFFEINE!] (also
** In one guest comic Jacques drew, the characters of ''Niego'' walk into Coffee of Doom and are promptly assaulted by Raven with a chair, with the
** It would appear that [http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1445 SCORN!] seems to have a [[Painting the Fourth Wall|corporeal form]].
** Dancing is emphasized by the dancing sounds...[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1597 "DANCE DANCE"]. The caption suggests this is less about humor and more about making sure the readers know she's dancing.
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** "ASS GRAB!"
* The [[Dada Comics]] ''[http://www.succubi.org/db/ Listening to 11.975MHz]'' takes Unsound Effects to a whole new level. Of course, it makes some sort of twisted sense in a comic where the ''dialogue'' also makes no sense...
* [[David Gonterman]] seems fond of "Kick!" There is also [https://web.archive.org/web/20090922224209/http://www.furnation.com/FoxStudios/archive/ComicStrip/strip124.html this strip.] If you can figure out what the heck is going on, please share.
** The "chief" character's warning came too late, it seems, as someone already made a move and got trashcanned, while the "vixen" is now blowing a bubble of chewing gum. The rest of the comic goes directly into "I Am Not Making This Up" territory (and in several places, makes me wish for some kind of mind/eye bleach).
** Also, Gonterman's short-lived "Kitsune .44" gives us the infamous "[http://commuterbarnacle.com/gonterman/4413.html "AUTOMATIC MACHINE GUN FIRE!"], "[http://commuterbarnacle.com/gonterman/4415.html TAKE OFF...]", [http://commuterbarnacle.com/gonterman/4416.html "tap tap tappity tap tap and so on tap tappit"], "DISARM!" and "...HOLSTER" and one instance where a character ''[http://commuterbarnacle.com/gonterman/4419.html says ":-)"]''.
* ''[[
{{quote| '''Lieutenant:''' What are they going to do? [[Tempting Fate|Take a potshot through two layers of hullmetal]]?<br />▼
'''''P O T S H O T'''''<br />▼
'''Corporal:''' Correction. Two layers of hullmetal and one lieutenant. }}▼
** A lot of older strips have TERAPORT! - what it sounds like is described [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2001-11-25 here].
** And
▲{{quote|
▲'''Corporal:''' Correction. Two layers of hullmetal and one lieutenant. }}
** A ''demi''-sound effect: [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2012-03-07 De-ploytch]!
** [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2000-08-13 SPRIINT]... [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2006-05-17 {{small-caps|squib.}}] And "[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2011-07-10 ABLATE]" (as the sound of ablative armor popping apart).
** So it goes on. [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2014-11-18 {{small-caps|DISMOUNT}}]. [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2015-01-31 SHRUBBERY].
** During the Urtheep hot mess: an unsuspecting technician ran into some scary ''[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2017-07-03 DISCREPANCIES!]'' in inventory (see the previous page for what a "missing" suborned [[Do-Anything Robot]] was busy rigging). A more complex one [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2017-07-05 here]: there's BOOM, and under it is a shadow of [[There Was a Door|DOOR]]. [[Chekhov's Gun|C H E K H O V !]] (it was, indeed, [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2017-01-15 said] that this gun was in the initial project, but ditched in mass production version of the ship, in part because it's really good only at short range... so, of course, they had to use it [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2017-07-23 at point-blank range]).
** In the All-Star [[Virtual Reality]], when a high-ranking administrator caught Evvin on trying to impress the new arrivals as a mountain-sized tree god, it resulted in "BONSAI!" and "*blossom*".
* [http://derwen.deviantart.com/art/The-Contest-72255448 This cartoon] from [[Deviant ART]] utilizes a lot of unsound effects, like *drink*, *belch*, *incredible loud belch*, and *crickets chirp*. Strangely, it also includes the best onomatopoeia for a power belch ever seen.
* Strip 12 of ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20111028124640/http://www.atomictoy.org/comics/omfe/ OMFE]'' averts another trope by having an orbital cannon fire with a mighty "[[Space Is Noisy|NOSOUNDINSPACE]]"
* ''[[Irritability]]'' used DETERMINATION!
* Used in place of actual sound effects most of the time in ''[
* ''[[The Noob]]'' has [http://www.thenoobcomic.com/index.php?pos=306 "Zerg! Zerg! Zerg"] for an onrushing horde. [[
** That's not an unsound effect, but a battle cry. A particular (rather clueless) guild is ''named'' Z.E.R.G. (short for Zealot Elite Righteous Guardians). That, of course, is the joke.
* [http://nerfnow.com/comic/27 NerfNow] has "ZEEEERGLINGS" for the sound of Zerglings, er, [[Zerg Rush|being Zerglings]]. And loving it.
** There's also '''CAPTURE''', '''Loot Loot''' and even '''MAIN PLOT HOOK!'''
* After several more conventional sound effects, the sound effect on the last panel on [https://web.archive.org/web/20090126013339/http://www.drunkduck.com/Final_Blasphemy/index.php?p=128710 this] page gets a bit abstract.
* Used to indicate a [[Groin Attack]] in ''[[The Order of the Stick]]'' [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0586.html #586].
** In [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0017.html an early strip], Belkar says he could probably sunder Elan's sword just by talking too loudly. Shortly after, they get spotted by a chimera, and Belkar exclaims "DAMN IT!", and Elan's rapier breaks in two, the sound effect being written as "sunder".
** [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0099.html Pierce! Slash! Bludgeon!]
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** [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0702.html Unfurl!]
** [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0761.html Swinganamiss!] Rich Burlew seems to really like these.
** [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0608.html Eee! Eee! Eee! Eee!] is the sound of someone being [[Psycho
** [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0609.html FTTH!] is the sound of someone getting a Foot To The Head. Also, SCHTUTH! may or may not stand for something similar.
** [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0748.html Thjunk!]
** [https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1286.html Catch!]
* One episode of ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20130520161122/http://www.bristled-comic.com/view.php?date=2006-12-08 Bristled]'' features ''GRAB!''
* [http://www.incomprehensibility.com/archives.php?type=iwd&c=517 Ironic Shining Light of Doom!]
** [http://www.incomprehensibility.com/archives.php?type=iwd&c=520 Violence! Mangle! Dismember!]
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** And even more recently, "Hoping! ... Real Hard!!" along with "Ominous!" as the Knob squeezes a juice-box.
** There's also "Bush Hat!" "Shadow!" and "Steve Says Hello!". By the way, Steve is a plant.
*** Steve is taken even further, his sound effect being [https://web.archive.org/web/20130516102335/http://www.hookiedookiepanic.com/geist/comic.php?&ID=59 "Omghax!"], then "Steve accepts!"
** And then there's "Passive Aggression!"
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20130516093750/http://www.hookiedookiepanic.com/geist/comic.php?ID=32 A recent strip] features perhaps the ultimate: a sound effect in
** A recent one gave a little [[Squick]] with "Better than Sex!" Of course the reason it was squicky was that it was associated with a headshot on a zombie from a sniper rifle.
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20130516094613/http://www.hookiedookiepanic.com/geist/comic.php?ID=60 "Shit Guy!"] sound effect used when someone knocks Steve over.
** And a even-more-ultimate example: "[https://web.archive.org/web/20130516084706/http://www.hookiedookiepanic.com/geist/pics/37.jpg Whatever Sound Something Like That Makes!!!]"
** How about "[https://web.archive.org/web/20130801045452/http://www.hookiedookiepanic.com/geist/comic.php?ID=59 No HMO Will Ever Cover This!]"? That's another good one.
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20130516104750/http://www.hookiedookiepanic.com/geist/comic.php?ID=74 FOOT!]
* ''[[
** One of [[Mad Scientist|Gil's]] inventions is the Hand Cranked Runcible Gun, which makes the sound "Spork! Spork! Spork!" as it fires... [[Spork
** [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20080926 Boot! Boot! Boot!]
** [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20110103 Agatha hits Zola] in the head [[Throw the Book At Them|with a large book]] (entitled [[Lampshade Hanging|Using Found Objects as Weapons]]) to the resulting sound effect "TOME!"
** [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20140714 RAIL!]
* ''[[The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob]]'' makes frequent use of this trope, perhaps most notably when space explosions are depicted as "SILENT KABOOM!"
** A deflected borfomite beam [http://bobadventures.comicgenesis.com/d/20100427.html "careens off into deep space..."]
* ''[[Achewood]]'' has [http://achewood.com/index.php?date=05022005 one] that crosses over with [[Bilingual Bonus]]: ''diis aliter visum'' translates from Latin to "the gods decided otherwise". Highly appropriate for one who has come [[Back
* ''[[
* ''Tails From The Mynarski Forest'' inverts this by using real words and names that ''sound'' like real sound effects, such as "GDANSK!"
* ''[[MS Paint Masterpieces]]'' uses "telprot!" (yes, that's spelled correctly) for teleportation.
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* [http://www.blue-uncia.nl/pages/SoL/SoL0111.shtml This] [[Stuff of Legend]] strip: SUPER SPECIAL SHOVE [[Doomy Dooms of Doom|OF DOOM!]]
* The defunct [[Sprite Comic]] ''[http://www.yosc.net/194X/ 194X]'' had a strip wherein a character hits several people with his "Volunteerin' Stick," making sound effects such as "PERSUADE!" (194X's archive doesn't allow direct links to comics; this happens in #70.)
* ''[[
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120512024414/http://taleotc.com/155 This] ''Tale of the Cave'' strip features insults hidden in the miss sound effects. Naturally, the protagonist shoots the sound effect guy. This is the only shot he has successfully made to date.
* ''[[Mac Hall]]'' had one strip where a human character in ''[[The Matrix]]'' universe who points out the film's plotholes is blasted by a laser gun, which makes the sound '''*VOIP!*'''. Not really an
** Followup strip
* ''[[Friendly Hostility]]'' does this a lot. [https://web.archive.org/web/20130606090702/http://friendlyhostility.com/d/20081231.html One strip] featured a character opening and then closing a sash window, with the sound effects *UUUUP* and *DOOOWN*.
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20150906160711/http://www.friendlyhostility.com/d/20080123.html Another strip] simply used the effect "*sound of pants falling*". [[Not What It Looks Like|Not What It Sounds Like]], by the way.
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20130606131425/http://friendlyhostility.com/d/20081205.html "*The Sound of Clothing Dropping at a Rapid Speed*", "*unbutton unbutton unbutton* "]. ''Definitely'' what it sounds like, by the way.
** ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20130606170634/http://friendlyhostility.com/d/20081029.html *BOOT!*]''
* ''[[The Cyantian Chronicles]]'' has used:
** "*Pity Me*", Including the asterisks while Khaelis was giving Darius [[Puppy Dog Eyes]].
** ''Akaelae'' has recently used both "Pounce" and "Glomp" as sound effects.
* This keyboard in ''[http://www.wastedtalent.ca/index.php?view=180 Wasted Talent]'' goes "leet leet!"
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20160603151052/http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=090206 ILLUMINATE PLEASANTLY]
** Also from ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'': "glitch" (for sword-stabbing), "[
** "Glitch" and "chakat" are proper sound effects, positively visceral and metallic, respectively. Anyhow, overall the unsound effects in Sluggy Freelance vary on a scale between humorous and action-explicating; these often overlap, such as in "stabbity stabbity STAB" being used for three consecutive attempts at stabbing the same target that keeps moving out of the way. Of course, the line to sound effects isn't entirely straightforward either.
** ''Ahem!'' May I present: [https://web.archive.org/web/20141227141933/http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=060306 Hugamundo!]
** "[http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/20090813 CREEPY ORGAN MUSIC BUILDING TO CRESCENDOOOOOOOOOOO]"
*** [[You Keep Using That Word]]... I don't think it means what you think it means...
** "[http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/20091214 Spla-taminate!]"
** "[http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/021205 Sound-effect-representing-one's-spleen-being-shoved-through-an-eye-socket]"
* ''[[Honeydew Syndrome]]'' once used [https://web.archive.org/web/20120620042203/http://wwww.honeysyn.net/comic.php?p=136 *facepalm*].
* [[Not So Distant]] uses this quite a bit. Amusingly, "stab" was not used when the main character was stabbed in the leg (splorch), but it WAS used earlier when a pillow got stuck to one of his head spikes (preceded by "flop" as he flopped onto his bed).
* [http://hail-nekoyasha.deviantart.com/art/Onomatopoeia-28080591 BOOOAAAT!]
* ''[[Scary Go Round]]'' has Ryan [http://www.scarygoround.com/?date=20090320 DESPAIR] at Shelley and Amy's antics.
** John Allison likes Unsound Effects: ''[[Scary Go Round]]'''s follow-up ''[[Bad Machinery]]'' already includes [
** [http://scarygoround.com/?date=20100317 STUNTS]
* Lampshaded in ''[[Ansem Retort]]'', [https://web.archive.org/web/20160304234024/http://ansemretort.org/ansemretort/index.html?comic=49 by the titular character].
** Much later, [
** One strip even had the sound effect of "TIME GETTING F***ED".
* Lampshaded and justified in ''[[
** [http://www.diggercomic.com/?p=678 SOMEWHAT MORE DISGRUNTLED ETHEREAL CHANTING!]
** [http://www.diggercomic.com/?p=744 BY-NOW-FAMILIAR SOUNDS OF GRUMPY ETHEREAL CHANTING!]
** And eventually, '''POOF!<ref>There was not actually a poof noise.</ref>'''
* ''[[Something
** [
** [
* ''[[Woods for The Trees]]'' had an "ASS-PINCH."
* ''[[Hijinks Ensue]]'' featured [https://web.archive.org/web/20130602021547/http://hijinksensue.com/2008/05/05/armnomnomnomnom/ a chainsaw that goes "CHAINSAW"].
* ''[[A Skewed Paradise]]'': [http://aspcomics.net/archindex.php?strip_id=138 Stool to the face!]
** Also, [http://aspcomics.net/archindex.php?strip_id=166 SABOTAGE VIA GNOME!]
* These have become something of a [[Running Gag]] on ''[[Daisy Owl]]''. A recent strip indicates the tucking in of a bib with ''"tuck tuck"'', while the [[Alt Text]] explains "that sound effect was originally going to be ''"bib bib bib"'' but I felt [[The World Is Not Ready|the world was not ready]]".
* [[Kevin and Kell]]: [[Dope Slap]] [http://www.kevinandkell.com/2004/kk0418.html Slap]!
* ''[[Turn Signals
* [[Anthronauts]] recently gave us the unusual "''Ker-Squid''".
** Exactly what sound '''should''' a squid make when it crash-lands on somebody's head?
* ''[[
** [http://fancyadventures.com/2009/08/31/page-120/ *STRUGGLE STRUGGLE*]
*
** '''[http://dizzy.pestermom.com/?p=thcomic96 KER-SLAMUEL!]'''
** And now, [http://dizzy.pestermom.com/?p=csa01marisa0002 JOKE STOLEN VERBATIM!]
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* Lucy Knisley makes good use of this one, particularly in "Some Thumb Sucking", in which she uses 'stress stress stress', 'calm', 'suspicion' and 'sneaky' (not to mention the variant 'sneeeaky' and then some more 'calm') as sound effects in only 9 panels.
* Used and abused by ''[[Chicanery]]'', with such sterling examples as "*spork*", "STEVE!", and "Brain refusing to function noises".
* ''[[Hark!
* ''[[Hanna Is Not a
* ''[[
** [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] (uh, sort of) a little later, when Wayward Vagabond hears "EGG" and thinks "it sounds like a giant egg just materialized in the sky and fell to the ground" or something along those lines.
** Inverted with PCHOOOOO, which John believes is a blast-off rocket sound effect, but it's actually the captcha code for the rocket pack.
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** [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=005199 "DEAD."] is a pretty spectacular example, along with a continuation of the comic's tradition of emoticon soundeffects.
*** [http://mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=005233 And again], now accompanied by a [http://mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=005225 "KO'D."]
*** And [
** [http://mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=005243 "HOPESPLODE!"]
** [[Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff|griiiiinb]]
* In ''[[Sonichu]]'', the abilities are presented as such, as is teleporting in. Lampshaded in the Audiobooks when Dethchemist describes a character as using "TELEPORTS IN."
* ''[[Brawl in
* Steve of ''[[
* ''[[Keychain of Creation]]'' gives us the [http://keychain.patternspider.net/archive/koc0280.html "Bro"] fist bump.
* ''[[The Way of the Metagamer]]'' includes "Temporarycollapse!" several times.
* ''[[Planescape Survival Guide]]'' has many, including [http://planescapecomic.com/Prologue9.html "Dulcet Tones"] for the sound of a banjo being used as a club.
* ''[[A Loonatics Tale]]'' has [http://static2007.deviantart.com/art/Stone-Cold-Crazy-69-129780175 BWARB], along with a "Twitch" sound effect for... well, whenever Riley's eye twitches.
** And in [http://zibaricon.org/animation/therapy/therapy.php this animation]{{Dead link}}, we see that the twitch DOES make an actual sound.
* In ''[[
* [http://woodsforthetrees.comicgenesis.com/d/20061213.html Generic collision noise!]
* ''[[Curvy]]'' has quite a few of these, including (NSFW) [http://c.urvy.org/?date=20100522 plug] for a shark being used to plug a hole in a ship, and [http://c.urvy.org/?date=20100529 inflate] for someone being magically inflated so she can breathe underwater.
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* Occasionally seen in ''[[A Miracle of Science]]'', though the comic usually uses onomatopoeic sound effects. Like "crumple." on [http://www.project-apollo.net/mos/mos328.html this rather spoilery page].
* ''[http://www.firmanproductions.com/ Moe]'' has several, including [http://www.firmanproductions.com/?p=671 'BRIBE SLIDE']
* ''[[
* ''[[Dragon Mail]]'' gets off to a running start with this trope, using "[http://dragonmail.fadri.org/index.php?pg=3&lg=en Quicky Quicky!]" on the third page.
* ''[[Far Out There]]'' has featured several, including but not limited to:
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20130917143657/http://faroutthere.smackjeeves.com/comics/1067778/page-151-hey-at-least-its-not-all-going-to-waste/ Look Look]
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20120813075329/http://faroutthere.smackjeeves.com/comics/1068884/page-163-dont-hit-your-head-while-jumping-to-conclusions/ DOES NOT COMPUTE]
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20120813075334/http://faroutthere.smackjeeves.com/comics/1068899/page-177-i-wonder-if-those-are-spacely-sprockets/ BegBegBeg]
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20120813075339/http://faroutthere.smackjeeves.com/comics/1071292/page-223-pieced-it-together-yet/ REALIZATION'D!]
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20120813075344/http://faroutthere.smackjeeves.com/comics/1071304/page-234-sorry-wrong-door/ EMOTIONAL SNAP]
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20120813075957/http://faroutthere.smackjeeves.com/comics/1072511/page-262-little-zombie-little-zombie-let-us-come-in/ DOOR OPENING SOUND]
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20120813080001/http://faroutthere.smackjeeves.com/comics/1072516/page-266-maybe-they-got-lost/ Eerie Silence]
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20120813080006/http://faroutthere.smackjeeves.com/comics/1080544/page-285-gulp/ ANGRY ROBOT NOISES]
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20120813080011/http://faroutthere.smackjeeves.com/comics/1281813/page-378-because-it-was-so-much-fun-the-first-time/ HEYGUYSISOUNDLIKEI'MGONNABLOW!]
* ''[[Bob the Angry Flower]]'': [http://angryflower.com/birpar.html *mumble* *disperse*]
* ''[[Awkward Zombie]]'': [http://www.awkwardzombie.com/comic1-072009.php BELAY!], and [http://www.awkwardzombie.com/comic1-060109.php ANGST!], among others.
* In ''[[Overcompensating]]'', an olfactory assault makes a [
* Whenever some machinery activates in ''[[
* Played with in this ''[[
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20140406204453/http://mountaincomics.com/2010/07/19/refractions/ This] Mountain Time offers "gentle descent!" and "suspenseful ascent!"
* ''[[Vexxarr]]'' has "{{
* ''[[Rusty and Co
* When pookas go back to being visible in ''[http://mopsy.com/ Never Never]'', they go "[[Sdrawkcab Name|Foop!]]"
* ''[[Fruit Incest]]'' uses a few, including the frequently occurring "Explosion" and "Barge In".
* ''[[Life
* Not sure if this was on purpose, but when a character in ''[[Ménage à 3]]'' [http://www.menagea3.net/d/20110205.html suggests] that Gary enjoyed an accidental [[Ho Yay]] encounter, Gary chokes on his drink, which makes the sound [https://web.archive.org/web/20130929150119/http://www.nasponline.org/advocacy/glb.aspx Glb!]
* ''[[Wapsi Square]]'' once [http://wapsisquare.com/comic/08132004/ used] the sound effect [[Chirping Crickets|cricket cricket]].
* "Chibi!" tends to be a favorite of ''[[Fiyora Nya]]''.
* ''Quest'' by Elsie "Lady Sol" Denton has used [http://quest.comicgenesis.com/d/20110328.html "levitate" and "heal"], among others.
* ''Luke Surl Comics'' has "[https://web.archive.org/web/20121202055627/http://www.lukesurl.com/archives/2566 unbuckle]".
* In one of Mike Russell's [http://culturepulp.typepad.com/culturepulp/the-sabretooth-vampire/ "Sabretooth Vampire"] strips, there is [http://culturepulp.typepad.com/culturepulp/2011/05/he-comes-prepared.html "RUMMAGE!" "PRODUCE!" and "AFFIX!"]
* [http://www.jacqofallblades.com/ Jacq of all blades] uses these excessively, in between normal written sound effects. In just the last 3 strips:
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** [http://www.jacqofallblades.com/?page=75#comic DETACHABLE HAND!Burning dopplegoo!]
** [http://www.jacqofallblades.com/?page=76#comic OVERKILL! DUE DILIGENCE! RAGDOLL PHYSICS TEST!]
** It may actually be easier to link to strips that don't use this trope.
* ''[[Ratfist]]'' : [https://web.archive.org/web/20110825003340/http://ratfist.com/01-page-103/ BRUCK-HEIMER]
* ''[[Servants of the Imperium]]'' includes such unsounds as [https://web.archive.org/web/20100218162504/http://www.servantsoftheimperium.com/comic/index.php?comicid=77 GLARE] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20100218162804/http://www.servantsoftheimperium.com/comic/index.php?comicid=62 WHIRL]
* ''[[Sarab]]'' has STEP, HOLD, JUMP, SLASH, THRUST, SWING and TREMBLE just on the ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20120720110159/http://sarab.co/pages/chapter-01-changes/page-01-split-second/ first page]''.
* ''[[Blip]]'' constantly parodies this, often reacting to real onomatopoeias in-universe.
* ''[[Goblins]]'': [http://www.goblinscomic.com/09162011/ KERSPLOSIONFORNOREASON!]
* In ''[[
* ''[[Arthur, King of Time and Space]]'' has "[http://www.arthurkingoftimeandspace.com/0683.htm UPSIDE]".
* Unsound effects occur regularly in ''Not a Villain'': for example, [http://navcomic.com/archive/page-76/ "ELONGATE" and "IGNORE"].
* ''[[Swords And Sausages]]'' used both "shove" and "violence!" in a [[Big Ball of Violence]].
* ''[[
* [
* ''[[Frankie and Stein]]'' uses this frequently, purposely misspelled, to hysterical affect. [https://web.archive.org/web/20160309095655/http://frankieandstein.com/2011/12/08/page-1-2 THUNDER!!] [https://web.archive.org/web/20160313042141/http://frankieandstein.com/2011/12/24/page-11 Dust off]. [https://web.archive.org/web/20170223131650/http://frankieandstein.com/2011/12/29/page-12-2/ Poke.]
* ''[[Lackadaisy]]'' has it in a Christmas special! [[Word of God]] [http://lackadaisycats.com/exhibit.php?exhibitid=331 says so!]▼
▲* [[Lackadaisy]] has it in a Christmas special! [[Word of God]] [http://lackadaisycats.com/exhibit.php?exhibitid=331 says so!]
* '' [[Octopus Pie]]'' gives us [http://www.octopuspie.com/2012-02-15/513-altercate/ ALTERCATE]
* ''[[Our Little Adventure]]'' [http://danielscreations.com/ola/comics/ep0163.html uses STAB.]
* In ''[[Scandinavia and The World]]'', Finland doesn't really talk much so there is a lot of this trope around him like. "VIHTA!!!" "SNOW!!!" "WEAK PROTEST!!!" and "crocodile tears to get ice cream." There are also non-Finland-related ones like "kiss of beer."
*
* In ''[[Does Not Play Well With Others]]'', John Johnson, the muscle wizard, attacks with a [http://www.doesnotplaywellwithothers.com/comics/pwc-0169 Ka-Fist!].
* ''[[Inverloch]]'' has "[http://inverloch.seraph-inn.com/viewcomic.php?page=23 {{small-caps|silence}}]".
== Web Original ==
* Some hovertext on [https://web.archive.org/web/20131112095506/http://cuteoverload.com/2009/09/08/so-dr-charmin-my-old-nemesis/ CuteOverload] includes "Perforate! Unspool!" and then goes into "Verb! Another verb! Yet another completely different verb!"
* During [[
* ''[[Cracked
* At [http://www.fiveminute.net FiveMinute.net], "GAK!" is always the sound of a character dying, regardless of how they die.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[The Fairly
** Unsound Effects are practically a [[Running Gag]] at this point; they show up in nearly every episode.
** The words written on the "Poof" clouds when Cosmo and Wanda (actually any magic-using character, actually) does something with magic are usually related to a wish or another event. Norm the Genie, on the other hand, only has "GONG!". The Pixies have "PING!", as well. Unsound effects show up a great deal in the Crimson Chin comics, which of course are parodies of normal superhero comics, which love this trope.
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* Appearances by Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy on ''[[
** NAP!
** KING ME! when the characters were playing checkers.
** Not to mention the production values of their old show: PROP! CARDBOARD! LAME!
* The ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' short "Now Hear This" climaxes with a gigantic explosion, accompanied by the words [[Rule of Funny|"GIGANTIC EXPLOSION"]] appearing onscreen
** When Bugs first sees the spaceship in "The Hasty Hare", he says "[[Loud Gulp|Gulp!]]"
* When the townspeople of ''[[South Park]]'' get upset, they form a mob and just yell "[http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/153618 RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE!]"
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* In the ''[[Space Ghost Coast to Coast]]'' episode "Batmantis", Space Ghost notes the presence of word balloons out of the 1960s Batman series: "Oh, look! Shoot a ray, and you get a word." He then produces word balloons reading "Obvious Parody!", "Insipid!", "Kenny Rogers!", and three paragraphs of unreadably-small text on the theory of evolution.
* The ''Self-Medication'' episode of ''[[The Venture Brothers]]'' features a bar fight chock full of these: examples include "Judo!" "Cower!" and "Torn Meniscus!"
* A [[Scott Pilgrim]] parody on ''[[
* In the ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
* The "Good Manners with Max" shorts on the old Playhouse Disney block always began like this:
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* ''[[Family Guy]]'' got in on the act with a '60s Batman cutaway reference, with [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|four "Teabag!" exclamations]] directly following Peter standing over a knocked out Riddler.
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