History Main / ScreamingWoman

** Spoofed when General [[PunnyName W. R. Monger]] is showing the President of the United States footage of all the monsters he's got locked up. ''Every time'' he shows one, the coffee lady screams in terror and drops her tray. Finally Monger has had enough and orders her thrown out of the room. He then shows his next clip, that of "Ginormica", a [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever 49 ft, 11 inch woman]]. Whereupon there's an identical high-pitched scream... from [[ScreamsLikeALittleGirl the President]].

* ''Series/StargateSG1'' episode "Bad Guys" spoofs this slightly by having the usually diplomatic Daniel shout at the screaming girl to shut up.

** Leela's MomentOfAwesome might just be when she slaps one of these in ''The Horror of Fang Rock''.

A woman's scream is a powerful auditory bomb: nothing conveys terror quite like it. However, it can easily become {{Narm}}ful when overused, especially if {{Stock Scream}}s are used. See EekAMouse for one example of something that can trigger this phenomenon. Actresses frequently cast in the role of the Screaming Woman are often called "Scream Queens."

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A woman's scream is a powerful auditory bomb: nothing conveys terror quite like it. However, it can easily become {{Narm}}ful when overused, especially if [[StockScream stock screams]] are used. See EekAMouse for one example of something that can trigger this phenomenon. Actresses frequently cast in the role of the Screaming Woman are often called "Scream Queens."

* The woman in the monster movie [[Paranorman Norman]] watches at the beginning has no lines, just a lot of terrified shrieks.

* Employed several times in the first two seasons of ''Fringe'', with opening scenes regularly depicting female nurses screaming at the horrifying case-of-the-week. Stretches suspension of belief, since an emergency room medical professional in a major urban hospital would be trained to deal with the unexpected and horrible.

* Blanche Barrow in ''Bonnie and Clyde''. 95 percent of Estelle Parson's oscar winning lines were ear splitting screams while the gang was fleeing from the police

A woman's scream is a powerful auditory bomb: nothing conveys terror quite like it. However, it can easily become {{Narm}}ful when overused, especially if [[StockScream stock screams]] are used. Actresses frequently cast in the role of the Screaming Woman are often called "Scream Queens."

''*Transcribed from the Jagger accent, sort of their own version of VampireVords.''

* Inverted in the movie ''Film/{{Watchmen}}''. When Dr Manhattan is shown turning Moloch's mooks into sticky gore hanging from the ceiling, a close-up is shown of one of his bar girls who is not screaming hysterically as one would expect, but is staring with the same terrified religious awe as the VC soldiers shown [[AGodAmI bowing before Dr Manhattan]] when he single-handedly wins the VietnamWar.

** In Season 6, while going into danger alone, River Song tells the Doctor he shouldn't worry, because she's "quite a screamer." Considering how flirtatious she is, and the fact that she's a genuine ActionGirl, we think she's talking about a different kind of scream.

* Parodied in the movie ''Troma's War'', where a screaming woman appears during the opening... and is promptly shot.
* In the SciFi BMovie ''It Came from Beneath the Sea'', said woman was a marine biologist, utterly convinced a gigantic monster octopus was terrorizing the coast. After spending the day ''swimming in the ocean looking for it'', said monster finally made an appearance when she was standing on shore with the men... and she promptly started screaming like a little girl. One wonders what she would have done had she found it while in the water.

* Subverted in the ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'' episode "Babel". Shriek uses a device which messes with the hearing or everyone in Gotham. A construction crane falls off a skyscraper and is falling straight towards a traffic cop, about to crush him into strawberry jam. An elderly, meek-looking woman notices this and yells at him trying to get his attention, but when it doesn't work she proceeds to jump into the middle of the road [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome without a thought of incoming traffic]], and pulls the idiot out of the way and to safety. BadassBystander? I think so.

* In the youtube series ''OneHundredYardStare'', Avery becomes one of these when she sees [[TheSlenderManMythos Slenderman]] for the second time.

However, it can easily become {{Narm}} if [[StockScream stock screams]] are used. Actresses frequently cast in this role are often called "Scream Queens."