History Main / PreviewsPulse

* Raging Silence's ''Rise of the Robots'' album features a blaster beam bass drop in its eponymous intro track and several others.

* Music/JeanMichelJarre uses a THX Deep Note-style organ glissando at the beginning of "Music/{{Oxygene}} Part 20", and a more traditional pulse in "The Watchers", the intro track of ''Equinoxe Infinity''.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zts54fT7w0U "Rancor"]] by Radiarc uses the ''Inception'' pulse to excess.

[[AC:For added atmosphere, play the music from [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAbI4w95cTE this trailer ]]
while reading on.]]

* The {{Unbuilt|Trope}} UrExample is [[http://youtu.be/DGAHtWV7Ua8 likely the trailer]] for ''{{Film/Alien}}''. Here, it is a remixed and drawn out sonar ping, and is much more high pitched and unnerving.

* The second ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'' trailer [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOrNdBpGMv8 had some instances of this]], coupled with Loki's HannibalLecture. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8PVqw2jfrI So did its third trailer]].
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yt7ofokzn04 So does]] ''Film/BattleLosAngeles''.

* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbTgbusuNmM Russian trailer]] for ''Film/TheCounselor''.

* ''{{Film/District 9}}'''s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6PDlMggROA second trailer]] featured pulses of many sizes. They're in-universe, to boot - they're the sounds the ship makes. [[spoiler:One shatters every window in Johannesburg.]]

[[AC:For added atmosphere, play the music from [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y Ab I4w95c TE this trailer ]]

* The [[UnbuiltTrope Unbuilt]] UrExample is [[http://youtu.be/DGAHtWV7Ua8 likely the trailer]] for ''{{Film/Alien}}''. Here, it is a remixed and drawn out sonar ping, and is much more high pitched and unnerving.

[[AC: For added atmosphere, play the music from [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y Ab I4w95c TE this trailer ]]

[[AC:For added atmosphere, play the music from [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAbI4w95cTE this trailer]] while reading on.]]

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* The second ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'' trailer [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOrNdBpGMv8 had some instances of this]], coupled with Loki's HannibalLecture. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8PVqw2jfrI So did its third trailer]].
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yt7ofokzn04 So does]] ''Film/BattleLosAngeles''.

* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbTgbusuNmM Russian trailer]] for ''Film/TheCounselor''.
* ''Film/CowboysAndAliens'''s is fairly muted, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IV-mii_IrKc but it culminates at 2:07]].
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Note The Deep Note]] is the Ur-ominous sound before nearly every movie. You may know it better as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWkJ86JqlPA the THX sound effect.]] Its ominousness comes from the fact that it sounds louder than it actually is, since it's made of a spectrum of frequencies that grow from small to large.
* ''{{Film/District 9}}'''s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6PDlMggROA second trailer]] featured pulses of many sizes. They're in-universe, to boot - they're the sounds the ship makes. [[spoiler:One shatters every window in Johannesburg.]]
* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbw9hlBnG74 trailer]] for ''Film/EuropaReport'' has it (second half).
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjKO10hKtYw The second trailer]] for ''{{Film/Godzilla 2014}}'' has them, during the scene where Franchise/{{Godzilla}} is revealed from within an enormous smoke cloud. By contrast, [[http://tinypic.com/player.php?v=10z69o0&s=5#.Utb7v-ChBFL the first trailer]] played the same scene without any pulses, instead playing Ligeti's ''Requiem'' during then.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VdONYkKFmQ Many also]] in ''{{Film/Immortals}}''.
* ''{{Film/Inception}}'' is one of [[TropeCodifier the most famous examples]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hP9D6kZseM featuring a distinctive sound in the trailers]] that [[MemeticMutation became memetic]]. [[http://inception.davepedu.com/ Buttons for it exist]].
* ''Film/PacificRim'' has one [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vKz7WnU83E in its first trailer]], though it's much less loud and more high than most examples.

* ''Film/RedRidingHood'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PM8V3cHdSC4 goes for the horn]].
* ''Film/RiseOfThePlanetOfTheApes'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3tidwW1gGM&t=1m13s Sound familiar]]? The chord does show up in the film once, as spear-wielding apes appear on a roof.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBCSASJrB6I A trailer for]] ''Film/Saw3D''
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDmLLGTQlXY It's not just the shark that attacks]] in ''Film/SharkNight 3D''.
* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxVIhsLdcC8 trailer ]] for ''Film/{{Snowpiercer}}''.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1OpwEu7luk This trailer for]] ''Film/TheThing2011'' has two different ones, a low one for suspense and a loud one for attack.
* ''{{Film/Transformers}}'', particularly the trailers for ''[[Film/TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen Revenge of]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vi1rMw-2hx4 the Fallen]]'' and ''[[Film/TransformersDarkOfTheMoon Dark of]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZY_nPE2EQ80 the Moon]]''.
* ''Film/TRONLegacy'' plays one [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiRPWfz3HZw as Sam first enters the Grid and sees a Recognizer]]. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=40jX-9zc7Ec Its trailer isn't free of them either.]]
* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5U9KmAlrEXU#t=50 trailer]] for ''Film/UpstreamColor'' has it.

** ''Film/TheWolverine'''s first trailer features one, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toLpchTUYk8 1:20 minutes in.]]

* ''Film/TwelveYearsASlave'': Pops up around [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIqodUJ-UfM thirty seconds in]].
* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZhYjRHllxk trailer]] for ''Disconnect (2012)'' has it.
* ''Film/WorldWarZ'' has a distinctly electric variant in its [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcwTxRuq-uk first trailer.]]

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* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6aNEIZwPFc The pulses signal]] the end of the peacefulness in ''Series/TerraNova''.
* In a ''Series/TenOClockLive'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVWhZ_qGD7g segment]] on the media's treatment of the Japan earthquake in 2011 showed Sky News doing this with a preview for its upcoming coverage, accidentally underlining their own tastelessness in dramatizing a real disaster in such a way when it was immediately followed by a trailer for ''Series/GameOfThrones'' that used exactly the same style.

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* Music/DiabloSwingOrchestra's "Justice for Saint Mary" (the final track off ''Pandora's Piñata''). [[http://youtu.be/3UIJmJB0GEU?t=5m45s At 5:45 into the song]], just after the final chorus, there are two low-pitched trombone notes, signaling to the listener that the song is about to kick it up a notch.

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* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=CZ5xW-Yo720#! This trailer for]] ''{{VideoGame/Prototype}}''.
* ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty: VideoGame/ModernWarfare 3'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uAEn8zKpMg Another chord]] from Music/HansZimmer himself.

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* ''Anime/PrincessMononoke'' begins with two reverb-heavy bass drum pulses.

* Creator/DingoPictures movies sporadically throw in blaster beam-sounding chords [[SoundtrackDissonance at the most unexpected moments]], such as Mii and Wabuu giggling in ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCxWXm_b8-k The Countryside Bears]]'' after Teddy falls from the tree. No, these were not inserted by WebVideo/{{Phelous}} during his riffs, they're actually part of the soundtrack.

* Creator/DingoPictures movies sporadically throw in blaster beam chords [[SoundtrackDissonance at the most unexpected moments]], such as Mii and Wabuu giggling in ''The Countryside Bears'' after Teddy falls from the tree. No, these were not inserted by WebVideo/{{Phelous}} during his riffs, they're actually part of the soundtrack.

* Creator/DingoPictures movies sporadically throw in blaster beam chords [[SoundtrackDissonance at the most unexpected moments]], such as Wabuu rolling over and giggling in ''The Countryside Bears''. No, these were not inserted by WebVideo/{{Phelous}} during his riffs, they're actually part of the soundtrack.

* ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty: VideoGame/ModernWarfare 3'': [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uAEn8zKpMg Another chord]] from Creator/HansZimmer himself.

[[AC:For the proper reading experience, play the music from [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAbI4w95cTE this trailer]] while reading on.]]

* Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesOutOfTheShadows'' uses the classic blaster beam pulses in the beginning of its [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeaugHGd1Kw trailer]].

** In ''VideoGame/{{Halo 2}}'', a blaster beam hit is heard when the Covenant blow up the Malta and Athens space stations. There's also the bass pulse in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVsn4BjK6Jk "Impend"]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5jPy-GmyUc "Heretic, Hero"]].

* ''VideoGame/ForzaMotorsport 6'''s soundtrack has pulses obviously cribbed from ''Inception'' in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6pmOj-Va5Y "Starting Grid"]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p377MY_P408&index=24 "Blow the Lid Off"]], though no pulses were used in the actual trailers.

* The [[UnbuiltTrope Unbuilt]] UrExample is [[http://youtu.be/DGAHtWV7Ua8 likely the trailer]] for ''{{Film/Alien}}''. Here, it is a remixed and drawn out sonar ping, and is much higher pitched and unnerving.

* ''Film/TwelveYearsASlave'': Pops up around [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIqodUJ-UfM thirty seconds in]]

* ''Film/TheWolverine'''s first trailer features one, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toLpchTUYk8 1:20 minutes in]].

* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MBjAN7jqsQ trailer]] to Michael Bay's ''[[Film/ThirteenHours 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi]]'' (2016) has it.