History Main / LoudOfWar

Also see SensoryAbuse, BrownNote, DreadfulMusician, MakeMeWannaShout, NoIndoorVoice, and MusicToInvadePolandTo. SisterTrope to TormentByAnnoyance, which is the same concept but with something other than music. {{Supertrope}} of the StukaScream, at least in its original incarnation. RightThroughTheWall often has similar results, but the annoying noise in question is specifically sexual in origin.

* ''Fanfic/AbraxasHrodvitnon'': [[Characters/AbraxasHrodvitnonHumans Madison Russell]] uses the ORCA at the Berezniki battle to painfully disorient [[spoiler:Keizer]] Ghidorah, giving Godzilla and his allies an advantage against it.

* ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'': In an effort to disorient Ghidorah and save her father's life, [[Characters/MonsterVerseFamilies Madison Russell]] sends the ORCA, which communicates with the {{Kaiju}} using bio-acoustics, into overdrive, causing Ghidorah to writhe around in pain and fury, and almost leading him to shoot the copter carrying Madison out of the sky to make the noise stop.

* One pre-''ComicStrip/TheFamilyCircus'' Bil Keane comic depicts a man holding a giant megaphone behind his back while talking to the receptionist in a TV network building.

* You defeat the final boss of ''VideoGame/{{MOTHER|1}}'' by singing.

* ''Fanfic/AbraxasHrodvitnon'': [[Characters/AbraxasHrodvitnonHumans Madison Russell]] uses the ORCA at the Berezniki battle to painfully disorient [[spoiler:Keizer]] Ghidorah, giving the heroic monsters an advantage against it.

* The bad toys in ''Film/SmallSoldiers'' did this. In between various homemade guns, flame-throwers, cannons and whatnot that they used to lay siege to the good guys' home, there were two large speakers. Upon powerup they started playing "Wannabe" by the Music/SpiceGirls, prompting one of the good guys (a company tech, his password was 'gizmo') to exclaim "psychological warfare!" while the tipsy wife of the electronics fetishist exclaimed "I love this song!"
* The Billy Wilder comedy ''Film/OneTwoThree'' features "Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini" being used as a torture device by the Communist Volkspolizei.
* In ''Film/Ghost1990'', Patrick Swayze's character Sam Wheat gets Whoopi Goldberg's character Oda Mae Brown to help him by singing "Henry the Eighth" over and over again, all night long. This later becomes a plot point, as he had previously done the same thing to his wife.

* The sound of NailsOnABlackboard in ''Film/ThePinkPantherStrikesAgain''.
* In ''Film/{{PCU}}'', Droz locks everyone into [[StrawmanU the university's]] faculty party, after setting "Afternoon Delight" on repeat and cranking the stereo up to 11. The partygoers eventually throw a chair through a window just to escape the song.
* In ''Franchise/StarWars Episode V: Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'', Chewbacca is locked in a small cell and tortured by use of a loud, high-pitched siren. This is only shown on-screen as it is ending, but the novelization describes just how excruciating it was for his acute Wookiee hearing.
* In the GagDub movie ''Film/JMenForever'' the evil Lightning Bug's rock and roll music runs cars off the road, destroys buildings and eventually the Moon [[TimTaylorTechnology after he cranks up his stereo too loud]].

* In ''Film/AceVenturaWhenNatureCalls'' the title detective's interrogation technique involves scratching a fork and knife on a plate.

* In ''Film/ResidentEvilRetribution'', the captured Alice is tortured by having an ear-splitting shriek played over the intercom of the interrogation room.
* ''Film/BattleBeyondTheStars''. The Malmori ground troops have a Sonic Tank that causes the Akiran defenders to bleed through the ears. Fortunately two of the aliens defending the planet are from a species that communicates via heat, not sound, so are able to get close enough to destroy the tank.
* The climax of the film ''Film/AClockworkOrange'' has a man who had been assaulted by Alex in the past torture him by locking him in a room and playing Beethoven at him (it MakesSenseInContext).

* ''Film/{{Screamers}}''. The eponymous {{Killer Robot}}s are called this because of the earsplitting scream they emit while attacking. You can either cover your ears or fire your weapon at them, but it's difficult to do both.
* ''Film/KellysHeroes'': Oddball's tanks all come equipped with loudspeakers. Oddball claims that playing very loud music calms his men down. If that's true or Oddball's just nuts is up for debate, but watching three Shermans roll through an exploding German railyard to the tune of "I've been working on the railroad" needs to be seen.

** Music/BarbraStreisand sang until Cartman told her the location of the Triangle of Zinthar in "[[Recap/SouthPAarkS1E12MechaStreisand Mecha-Streisand]]".

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* Nora reveals in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13858618/1/ Attack on Titan A New Path]]" that whenever Ren doesn't feel like hanging out she sings "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" to him. Of course her being incredibly [[HollywoodToneDeaf off-key]] makes it very effective.
* ''Fanfic/GuysBeingDudes'': In case Spark and Arlo have sex during the first night they spend together at Team GO Rocket HQ, Sierra specifically gives Arlo permission to blast whatever music he wants as loud as he wants in an effort to avert RightThroughTheWall. So, Arlo, being the {{Troll}} he is, chooses to blast a meme song that Sierra hates, heavily implied to be [[Music/LilNasX "Old Town Road"]], at maximum volume.

* ComicBook/{{Deadpool}} once jumped to the conclusion that Comicbook/{{Cable}} was going to transmit an endless loop of the Backstreet Boys. Upon learning this, Cable was actually tempted to [[MoralEventHorizon do so]].

* ''FanFic/AChanceMeetingOfTwoMoons'': Artemis, when extremely angry with his brother, turns on his music to ''very'' loud levels and leaves off the sound-muffling spells that would normally keep the noise confined to his own room.

* ''FanFic/ThePiecesLieWhereTheyFell'': In chapter 27, Rex gives Wind Breaker a special alarm he can use to wake everyone up in case of emergencies and startle and disorient those attacking them. A demonstration is eventually made in chapter 44, in which it is revealed as an ''extremely'' loud foghorn... and that was the ''lowest'' setting (it's also a ShoutOut to the one in ''FanFic/ThisBites''). According to Rex, had it actually been set off while they were in the forest, it would have been heard all the way back in Canterlot.

* ''FanFic/ThisBites'': In Chapter 31, Cross discovers that his Snail Transceiver has a foghorn button built in. He very quickly comes to love it. Everyone else, not so much.

** In [[Film/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy the movie]] while Ford Prefect is in aural agony, Arthur Dent is completely immune to it and has a confused look on his face. On the other hand, in the TV miniseries, both Arthur ''and'' Ford are [[SuckinessIsPainful badly affected by it]].

* Negan tortures Darryl in ''Series/TheWalkingDead'' by having ''EasyStreet'' played endlessly. For those curious about the effects it might have, there's a ten-hour loop of the song available online.

* ExpandedUniverse novels for ''TabletopGame/BattleTech'' have this happening...naturally, it's the [[BraveScot Northwind Highlanders]] who do this, complete with making deployment drops while their DropShip fleet plays stirring bagpipe music over every broadcast channel. At maximum volume. Doubles as communications jamming since their enemies are unable to hear each other over their radios with the bagpipes on every frequency, and several on the receiving end of the tactic have noted it gives them headaches.
** From the same universe, the [[http://www.sarna.net/wiki/Gabriel ''Gabriel'']] [[FragileSpeedster Light Reconnaissance]] [[HoverTank Tank]] was named due to an accidental discovery by pilots that if they angled the forward fans ''just so'', it made a wailing trumpet sound from the pitch-back noise.

* The Flanders&Swann song "Ill Wind" is pretty much a report of one of these in progress. The first verse goes "I once had a whim and I had to obey it, to buy a French Horn in a second-hand shop/ I polished it up and I started to play it in spite of the neighbours who begged me to stop." and the issue only escalates from there.

* ''Film/StarTrekBeyond'': To counter the baddie's swarm of attack ships, the crew blast "Sabotage" by the Beastie Boys over the same frequency the enemy ships use to coordinate their movements. [[Spoiler: The result is a massive fireball as the attack ships crash into each other.]]

* In UsefulNotes/AmericanFootball, it is common for the fans to scream during certain plays in an attempt to disrupt the opposing side. The Seattle Seahawks are notorious for this, such that their fans are nicknamed "The 12th Man". In Germany - yes American Football in Germany exists - there are laxer regulations on what is allowed in a stadium, so in most places the fans will bring all the drums, horns, pipes and whatnot they can carry. The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-shQCwDUs90 resulting noise]] is seriously unnerving.

* ''VideoGame/SaintsRowIV'' has a Dubstep Gun, which fires wubs that force anything hit by them to dance themselves to death. Leave to the Saints to find a way to weaponize dubstep.

* In one of WebVideo/ThomasSanders' WebOriginal/{{Vine}}s, he demonstrates that loudly flipping your test paper over in class equals yelling "I'm better than you!" at his classmates with a loudspeaker.

* ''VideoGame/{{Splatoon}}'' has the Killer [[{{Pun}} Wail]] as one of its super weapons. After it charges, placing it down will have it emit an ungodly screech in the direction it was placed. Of course, if a player is caught in it, they get immediately splatted. [[spoiler:It even features in single player, where [[FinalBoss DJ Octavio]] uses it against the player.]]

* In ''Film/{{Ghost}}'', Patrick Swayze's character Sam Wheat gets Whoopi Goldberg's character Oda Mae Brown to help him by singing "Henry the Eighth" over and over again, all night long. This later becomes a plot point, as he had previously done the same thing to his wife.

* Taken UpToEleven in the GagDub movie ''Film/JMenForever'' where the evil Lightning Bug's rock and roll music runs cars off the road, destroys buildings and eventually the Moon [[TimTaylorTechnology after he cranks up his stereo too loud]].

* The video for Music/MichaelJackson's "Black Or White" opens with a father insisting his son turns his music off, only for the son to set up a ridiculously large guitar amp and crank it all the way to "[[UpToEleven Are You Nuts??!?!!11]]", with rather destructive effects.

* Occasionally happens at protests or similar situations, as competing sides attempt to drown each other out - and may even be a deliberate attempt to cause disruption to communication or drive away business while using the shelter of free speech. One example that comes to mind is anti-Wicca activist Bill Pricer's attempt to prevent the performance of an equinox ceremony by attending it himself. With a truck, and a sound system cranked UpToEleven, and a CD of Christian rock. And, just to be sure, a group of friends who walked around chanting Bible verses. The attempt was a success: [[http://www.witchvox.com/va/dt_article.html?a=cabc&id=8514 One cannot conduct a ceremony if the words are inaudible]]. There have been reports of an escalation of the Muslim call to prayer in some areas following the introduction of amplified speaker technology - as mosques competed to have the loudest call, the arms race led to some in areas of high mosque-density reaching the levels that can cause hearing loss to nearby residents.

Also see SensoryAbuse, BrownNote, DreadfulMusician, MakeMeWannaShout, NoIndoorVoice, and MusicToInvadePolandTo. SisterTrope to TormentByAnnoyance, which is the same concept but with something other than music. {{Supertrope}} of the StukaScream, at least in its original incarnation.

Also see SensoryAbuse, BrownNote, DreadfulMusician, MakeMeWannaShout, NoIndoorVoice, UpToEleven, and MusicToInvadePolandTo. SisterTrope to TormentByAnnoyance, which is the same concept but with something other than music. {{Supertrope}} of the StukaScream, at least in its original incarnation.

* Heineken ran an ad in the UK featuring a Godawful TastesLikeDiabetes Carpenters pastiche, played by Creator/PaulDaniels of all people, ending with a caption reading "Buy more Heineken or we'll keep playing this song".

* Some speculate that the majestic '''''[[MoreDakka BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRT!]]''''' of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairchild_Republic_A-10_Thunderbolt_II A-10 Thunderbolt II]]'s truly monstrous [[{{BFG}} GAU-8 Avenger Autocannon]] serves as a form of psychological warfare on its own, but for those who it's been called on to protect, it is a MostWonderfulSound. Imagine in the heat of battle, you're hiding behind whatever flimsy shelter you can find, and in the distance, all you can hear is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvIJvPj_pjE this]]. With every passing minute, you hear the sound again, but it's getting closer, and closer, ''and closer''. It becomes the last thing you hear as the aircraft finally strafes your position, effortlessly chewing you to pieces with bullets the size of beer bottles, and the sound of your demise will only serve as further terror for your comrades.

* Some speculate that the majestic '''''[[MoreDakka BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRT!]]''''' of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairchild_Republic_A-10_Thunderbolt_II A-10 Thunderbolt II]]'s truly monstrous [[{{BFG}} GAU-8 Avenger Autocannon]] serves as a form of psychological warfare on its own. Imagine in the heat of battle, you're hiding behind whatever flimsy shelter you can find, and in the distance, all you can hear is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvIJvPj_pjE this]]. With every passing minute, you hear the sound again, but it's getting closer, and closer, ''and closer''. It becomes the last thing you hear as the aircraft finally strafes your position, effortlessly chewing you to pieces with bullets the size of beer bottles, and the sound of your demise will only serve as further terror for your comrades.

* ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekLowerDecks'': In "Temporal Edict", Ensign Beckett Mariner plays her electric guitar at such a high volume that the sound causes tremors throughout the ship.