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This is the '''Unsound Effect'''. It's a humorous technique, although it is also seen in fight scenes ("Block!" "Slash!").
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 '''Unsound Effect'''. Japanese writers will use sound effects to denote sounds, like heartbeats or door slams, but also to represent more abstract events like "smiling" ("niko niko"), "sudden realization" ("ha"), "the sound of silence" ("shiiiiiiin") or even "the sound of blushing" ("kaaaaa"). These are known as phenomimes when they describe external phenomena and psychomimes when they describe psychological states. Some [[Anime]], generally the more surreal sort, turn these into actual sound effects.
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** ''[[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!]]'' asked what kind of sound effect they would want to have if they were in a comic, Kevin Pereira admitted he would want the word "SKANK!" to pop up when he slapped someone in the face.
* ''[[The Muppet Show]]'' did a sketch entirely in action and spoken sound/unsound words. It started with a creature (possibly played by Animal) 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.
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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-Slidey Ice World|Ice Cave]]. You do this by shoving her. The sound effect shown in the text box for this? "'''Shove!'''"
* [[
* The instruction manual for the [[PlayStation 2]] game ''[[Flower, Sun, and Rain]]'' includes screenshots accompanied by ordinary sound effect words, until one image gets the effect "KATHARINE!"
* [[Final Fantasy VI|*gobble* *snarf* *snap* HP/MP restored, and status ailments like Poison cured!]]
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* ''[[Irritability]]'' used DETERMINATION!
* Used in place of actual sound effects most of the time in ''[http://www.realityexperiment.com Reality Experiment]'', particularly "Sound of window smashing!"
* ''[[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.
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* ''[[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
* ''[[Dandy and Company]]'': Christmas decorations appear with a massive [http://www.dandyandcompany.com/2007/11/26/november-26-2007/ JINGLE!]
* ''Tails From The Mynarski Forest'' inverts this by using real words and names that ''sound'' like real sound effects, such as "GDANSK!"
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** [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
** [http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp03162003.shtml "Sound of liver having an orgasm".]
** [http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp03302007.shtml "Insert the sound of fat being angrily displaced."]
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== [[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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