History Main / GaleForceSound

* Some children's entertainers invoke this trope after asking the kids to yell as loud as they can: during the scream, the entertainers throw themselves against a wall as if there is a strong wind.

* Zigzagged with the Scream-Scream Devil Fruit in ''Anime/OnePieceTheMovie''; lore-wise, it lets the user, BigBad [[SpellMyNameWithAnS El Drago]], scream so loudly that it hits like a turbo-charged battering ram, punching through whatever is in the screamer's way. However, it's visually depicted as just a generic energy blast that happens to be [[BreathWeapon launched from the user's mouth]].

* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' 4th and 5th Edition have Thunder damage, which was known as Sonic damage in 3rd edition (the change was to make it sound more fantasy and less science fiction). Many spells and effects that cause Thunder damage also have the effect of knocking the target away from the caster, like the first level wizard, sorcerer, and Tempest cleric spell Thunderwave.

* The famous [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2WcBi9mu6A "Blown Away Guy"]] Maxell tape commercial from 1980. Also done in print form (and in the UK, the guy listening to the music is Music/PeterMurphy!).

* Pistol shrimp use their claws to form a cavitation bubble that then explodes and stuns or kills their prey with a shockwave.

* Jay Garrick, the original [[Franchise/TheFlash Flash]], is fond of using him signature winged helmet as a weapon. One of the methods is to "aim" the inside of it at someone then punch the top of it, creating a loud sonic boom.

* Near the beginning of the first ''Film/BackToTheFuture'', Marty hooks up an electric guitar to a ludicrously huge speaker. He plays a single chord and is physically hurled backwards by the sound (the speaker is destroyed in the process).

* In the ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' mini-episode featuring Punk Rocket, Punk Rocket's guitar playing acts like this.
** Another episode has a downplayed example where Beast Boy and Cyborg are arguing continually and in attempts to drown-out the noise, Robin has a boombox playing music loud enough to make his hair get pushed back with every beat.
* Blaster in ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformers'' often used sound like this to attack, as opposed to Soundwave, who was more of a BrownNote user. At one point, he uses a pair of amplifiers to shake an entire building down.
* From ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'', there's the rock battle between Optimus Prime and Soundwave, in "Human Error, Part 2".

* ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'':
** In "Captain Hardrock", [[TheRockStar Luka]] turns up his amp loud enough to flip cars with a single power chord. [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome This results in]] [[PoliceAreUseless Officer Roger]] [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome paying a visit to the Couffaines' houseboat]].
** In "Party Crasher", [[BlackAndNerdy Max]] and his RobotBuddy Markov reroute all the power in [[BigFancyHouse Adrien's mansion]] to the speakers in his room, which also flips cars out on the street, [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome and once again gets the police involved]].

** In "Squid on Strike", when Squidward yells at [=SpongeBob=] through a megaphone when he inadvertently lets a scab worker cross the picket line and take his old job.

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsRainbowRocks'': When Rainbow Dash repeats "my band" [[RunningGag one time too many]], all the other Rainbooms yelling "OUR BAND!" together is enough to blow Dash's hair back.

This, though, is that feeling taken [[BeyondTheImpossible beyond what's possible in real life]]. A sound or series of sounds, if sufficiently loud, will push someone or something around as would the wind of a hurricane or tornado, well beyond what would happen in the RealLife. This trope is almost always [[RuleOfFunny played for laughs]], but the RuleOfCool has it weaponized now and then as a [[ElementsOfNature type of non-standard elemental damage]] combining aspects of BlowYouAway, GlassShatteringSound, and ExplosionPropulsion.

* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': Happens in "Good Neighbors" when Squidward screams to [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick: "[[GetOut GET OUT OF MY HOUSE!]]"; it's so loud it even ''blows the two away.''

** The episode Draft Horse: The doctor tells the titular horse to [[ExactWords say 'ahh'.]] The result: the horse screamed so loud and strong it was like wind blowing intensely in front of the doctor's face.

Contrast this trope to BrownNote and LoudOfWar, where the sound has a purely psychological effect on the target, as opposed to the physical effect of gale-force sound. See also GlassShatteringSound, where the effect is limited to glass. MakeMeWannaShout has a similar effect, but only caused by a person's voice, and it's less frequently used for comedy, and MusicalAssassin, who may use their music for this effect (but just as likely play BrownNote music).

* In ''Literature/GelsominoInTheLandOfLiars'', Gelsomino's voice is extremely loud all the time. When he actually tries to make it loud, this trope ensues. At one point, his singing demolishes an opera theatre like a hurricane would.

* In ''Series/BlackBooks'', Manny bets Bernard that he can sell a book to the next person to enter the shop; he tries it, but doesn't even get as far as "hello" before the customer unleashes a furious rant about not wanting to be pestered by salespeople in shops, the force of which blows Manny's hair back.

* [[Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} The Other Wiki]] talks about [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma_City_sonic_boom_tests Operation Bongo II]] over Oklahoma City which led to the US halting SST development.

* ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory'': During the "Strange Things" sequence, Rex learns how to properly roar like a dinosaur and blows Potato Head's accessories off his face.

* The Killer Wail from ''VideoGame/{{Splatoon}}'' exhibits this effect, but only against entities who have [[DeflectorShield deployed a Bubbler]] or [[SuperMode transformed into a Kraken]], due to the invincibility effect provided by those. It is impossible to tell if this effect works on normal Inklings, [[BrownNote typically because they do not last long enough]].

* Near the beginning of the first ''Film/BackToTheFuture'', Marty hooks up an electric guitar to a [[UpToEleven ludicrously huge speaker]]. He plays a single chord and is physically hurled backwards by the sound (the speaker is destroyed in the process).

* ''Videogame/SpaceAce'' has Kimberly do this ''[[UpToEleven over videophone]]''

** Blaster in ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformers'' often used sound like this to attack, as opposed to Soundwave, who was more of a BrownNote user. At one point, he uses a pair of amplifiers to shake an entire building down.