History Main / LoudGulp

** Rainbow Dash does this in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E16SonicRainboom Sonic Rainboom]]" when the part of her performance to perform her legendary Sonic Rainboom to win the competition to impress and hang out with the Wonderbolts for a day.

* In ''Disney/LiloAndStitch,'' Pleakley gives a very visible gulp after dodging a door-piercing ImprovisedWeapon thrown by Jumba (who was aiming at Stitch, but missed).

* In ''Disney/TheLionKing'', there's a group hyena gulp during the Simba/Scar confrontation at the end.

* ''Disney/OlafsFrozenAdventure'': Elsa audibly gulps as she resists the urge to vomit at the sight of Kristoff's holiday tradition (licking the forehead of a mud statue of a moss troll and making a wish).

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* ''Webcomic/PixieAndBrutus'': [[RascallyRaccoon Randal]] lets out an audible gulp after hearing the threat Brutus makes upon learning that he threatened [[CuteKiten Pixie]].

* The 2019 HalloweenEpisode "The Homestar Runner Enters the Spooky Woods" makes a RunningGag out of The Homestar Runner loudly gulping in fear.

* Gatsby does one in ''Film/TheGreatGatsby'' during tea time with Daisy and Nick, probably due to nervousness.

* Roger, the title character in Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit, does this in the opening cartoon Somethin’s Cookin. After a bunch of [[KnifeOutline knives pin him against the wall]] one final knife, a meat cleaver, hits the wall in between his legs [[GroinAttack just barely missing his crotch]]. His eyes bug out and dart to the cleaver as he gulps loudly.

* In Disney/TheLionKing, there's a group hyena gulp during the Simba/Scar confrontation at the end.

'''Hyenas:''' Gulp!

* ''Series/WareHouse13'':

** Rainbow Dash does this in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E16SonicRainboom Sonic Rainboom]]" when the part of her performance to preform her legendary Sonic Rainboom to win the competition to impress and hang out with the wonderbolts for a day.

* Topper Harley emits one in ''Film/HotShots'' after some of Ramada's flirting.

Also see SpitTake and SayingSoundEffectsOutLoud. Not to be confused with GiganticGulp.

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* Several times throughout ''TheWonderYears'', whenever Kevin had an OhCrap moment, the narrator would simply say, [[SayingSoundEffectsOutLoud "Gulp!"]]

* In ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'', the titular character (twice), 1-Up, Fightgar, Gunhaver, Silent Rip and Crackotage say it out loud. Often preceded with an "Mmmmmm".

* VinceMcMahon, Wrestling/{{WWE}} owner, has turned this into an art.

** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS7E10ARoyalProblem A Royal Problem]]", after [[spoiler:switching Pincesses Luna and Celestia, and thus their roles for a day]], Starlight Glimmer says "There! Now you'll know exactly what it's like to... be each other." Followed by a loud, pained gulp.

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* In ''Lightnovel/FullMetalPanic'', [[OneManArmy Sousuke]] visibly gulping can only mean one thing: [[{{Tsundere}} Kaname]] is '''PISSED'''.

* Appears in ''Anime/SpiritedAway'' when Chihiro has to pick out which of the pigs are her parents

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* [[Franchise/AceAttorney Phoenix Wright]] in ''WebAnimation/TurnaboutStorm'' reacts with this after hearing that dragons exist in [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Equestria]] and Twilight Sparkle's (the one responsible for him being dragged there) assistant Spike happens to be one.

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-->'''Scar''': Simba? Simba! Oh, I'm a little surprised to see you...''alive?'' (''glares at the hyenas'')\\
'''Hyenas''': Gulp!

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* ''Ichi the Killer''
* Episode 1 of ''StarWars'' has the entire Gungan army do this when they see the droid army deploying their infantry. Captain Tarpals then tells Jar Jar [[ThisIsGonnaSuck "Ouch time."]]

* In ''ProblemChild 2'', Ben Healy Jr. (John Ritter) gulps audibly when asking nurse Amy Young (Amy Yasbeck) out on a date out of nervousness.

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* ''WareHouse13'': Claudia has an epic one when she offhandedly mentions a few major recent incidents at the Warehouse, and Mrs. Fredericks asks her to "debrief" her on them.

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* A cheating student in ''ComicStrip/{{Zits}}'' does this when her teacher suspects her of using a (fictional) cheating website, www.bootleg.com, in order to get better grades in school.

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* VinceMcMahon, Wrestling/{{WWE}} owner, has turned this into an art.
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* Happens in [[OnceAnEpisode every episode]] of ''WesternAnimation/MoralOrel'', just before Orel's father beats him as punishment for whatever he did wrong that day.
** CharacterDevelopment ensues when he stops reacting with this trope and starts to respond with a deadpan response.

** Rainbow Dash does this in ''Sonic Rainboom'' when the part of her performance to preform her legendary sonicrainboom to win the competition to impress and hang out with the wonderbolts for a day.
** In [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E6BoastBusters "Boast Busters",]] Twilight Sparkle does this when she realizes she has to fight [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever an angry bear about a hundred times her size.]] She then [[BadassBookworm defeats the giant bear quite handily.]]
** Rainbow Dash manages to get a flamingo to do this during a DrillSergeantNasty routine in [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E7MayTheBestPetWin "May the Best Pet Win!"]].

* Rainbow Dash does this in ''Sonic Rainboom'' when the part of her performance to preform her legendary sonicrainboom to win the competition to impress and hang out with the wonderbolts for a day.

* In ''TheRoadToElDorado'', Miguel and Tulio both do it when they have to play a ball game they've never played before against fifteen of the best players in the city, and are expected to win since they are gods.

* Early, extreme example in the OswaldTheLuckyRabbit cartoon ''The Fowl Ball'' (1930). As nervous Oswald loudly gulps, his Adam's apple bobs in his throat—and it's shaped like a ''real'' apple, complete with stem.

* Disney has two stock sound effects of this that often appear in either the ClassicDisneyShorts, or their [[Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon classic animated films]] up to at least the late 1970s. In fact, this is DonaldDuck's standard OhCrap ReactionShot.