History Main / StockSoundEffects

* The Dynamite Explosion, which is also used as a random ambient noise in ''VideoGame/{{Marathon}} 2: Durandal's'' volcanic levels, and for grenade/rocket explosions in the ''TombRaider'' series and ''SoldierOfFortune: Payback''.
** The ''Marathon'' "cyborg exploding" sound also appears in ''TombRaider'' when you kill an enemy with explosives.

* There's also the rusty metal trapdoor sound. Heard as a [[ScareChord scare sound]] in the ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'' series on Flood-infested levels. It, or something similar, is also used in the ''TombRaider'' series.

** Also used in ''[[Videogame/Warcraft]]'' 's RTS games, more specifically, the second installment, as the Dragon's stock roar sound effect, with edited versions

* The Necropolis siren in ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 1}}''(BZZZZZZURRRRRRRRM!), heard in the OST track [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64ZBkuOJPpY "City of the Dead"]], and later in the soundtracks to ''{{FEAR}}''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1qTEoWarsY ("Docks Ambient")]] and ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas''("Mutant Massacre"). Another stock siren sound is used in "Metallic Monks", the Brotherhood of Steel's theme.

** Anguirus' roar has also become a bit of a stock roar, being heard in the ''StreetFighter'' games (Fei Long's stage), ''SuperMetroid'' (Draygon's screech), and a few non-Godzilla films.

* Security alarm sounds. The alarm sound in the Nintendo 64 adaptation of ''VideoGame/GoldenEye1997'' is also used for the gates in ''{{Gradius}} IV'''s High Speed Stage, and appears in the ''VideoGame/DanceDanceRevolution'' song "Dead End". Another stock alarm sound is used in both ''VideoGame/TomorrowNeverDies'' (the game) and ''PerfectDark''.

* Yet another siren: in "Drop Out" from ''DanceDanceRevolution'' and "Robotix" from ''InTheGroove 2''.

** ''Franchise/StarWar'' Episode 1 when the kids are playing around the pod racer before the race.

* ''HalfLife''

* ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty: Modern Warfare'' -- goes off around Chernobyl if you try to leave.

** HalfLife Fans just had a funny reaction.

* The Half-Life 2's RPG launch sound effect is often used as a generic explosion sound effect, even in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fz1BXF7bVpM#t=3m26s music videos]]

* There's that one gun sound which appears pretty much ''everywhere'', whether clear or in some variation (most gun sound websites list it as ".357 magnum" or similar). Just to name very few examples, multiple rail-shooters, the magnum in Film/TheGodfather video game, the Red 9 in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4'' uses a variation, the .357 Magnum in ''VideoGame/{{Half-Life 2}}'', Desert Eagle and Steyr AUG in ''VideoGame/{{Counter-Strike}}'', and so on.

* Every time an eagle screech is needed, it's almost always actually a red-tailed hawk cry that's used, not a real eagle cry.

** A somewhat higher-pitched alarm can be found in shows like ''Series/{{Bones}}'' (usually during EstablishingShots of the lab), and especially Japanese {{Tokusatsu}} shows.

* The chirp-chirp-chirp sound made by a helicopter's drive belts as they slow down and disengage. The ''only'' helicopter that actually makes this sound is the Bell 47-G. It's the one you see on {{MASH}}.

* The siren-like sound of an airplane going down. This particular sound is applied to a number of films (both contemporary to the war and after the fact) set in World War II and up until around the time of the Vietnamese War, to show airplanes in a dive or after being shot down. This is almost always the Stuka Ju 87 "Jericho Trumpet" being heard, a propeller-driven siren designed for that particular dive bomber as a psychological weapon by the Luftwaffe.

->'''Singhez-Things''': ''Pardon me, sir. There is a European fireman hiding in the waiting room.''
->'''Major Bloodnok''': ''Well, tell him to wait in the hiding room while I paste these photographs into my hat. Paste! PASTE! (aside to listeners) Well, there's no sound effect for paste, is there..?''
->'''FX''': ''(creaky door)''
->'''Seagoon''': ''No, but there is one for doors opening!''
-->-- ''TheGoonShow'', "The Burning Embassy"

** Pixar AFLAC ''ToyStory3'' commercial, around May 2010

* A siren is sometimes used on Game Shows to mark failures. Notable examples are on shows like TheCrystalMaze, where alarms mark strikes in games with automatic lock-in conditions, and FortBoyard, where an alarm is used for the "Burglary" game.

* The siren-like sound of an airplane going down.

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* Whenever a child's innocent laughter needs to feature in a scene, it's almost always the same sound clip. Used in a Dannon yogurt commercial, ''Film/{{Rambo}}'' (2008), the opening sequence to ''VideoGame/DiddyKongRacing'', and one of the alternate Windows 95/98 shutdown sounds, among numerous other places. It's also the same sound used in:

** Star Wars Episode 1 when the kids are playing around the pod racer before the race

* The "Drone Preparing to Fire" sound from ''{{Marathon}} 2'' is also used as the Cypher drone activation sound in ''GhostRecon: Advanced Warfighter''.

* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsNaR6FRuO0 That little musical sequence modems make]]. [[UnsoundEffect Kriiiii-doooo-bedoobedoobe-doooo...]]

* The Necropolis siren in ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 1}}''(BZZZZZZURRRRRRRRM!), heard in the OST track [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64ZBkuOJPpY "City of the Dead"]], and later in the soundtracks to ''{{FEAR}}''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1qTEoWarsY ("Docks Ambient")]] and ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas''("Mutant Massacre").

* Nuclear reactor alarms. One is used in ''VideoGame/{{Doom}} 3''.