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* In the intro of ''{{Tekken}} 4'', Kazuya is beating up a bunch of Mishima Commandos with camera attachments, while his father, Heihachi, watches incredolously from a chopper viewscreen (and with good reason, considering that he last saw his son when he threw him into a friggin' volcano, minutes before eruption). After using the camera on the last goon to declare his intention to 'Take it all back', Kazuya smashes his fist through the camera (and presumably the guy's head), causing the screen in Heihachi's helicopter to turn to static.
* In ''TheWorldEndsWithYou'', the perspectives of characters who get "erased" are shown as a gray static-filled screen.
* Perhaps the climax of ''{{EarthBound}}'''s {{final boss}} counts. There's no in-story feed, but the whole thing is such a [[BreakingTheFourthWall fourth-wall-breaking]] {{mindscrew}} that the static, snow, and final cutout has a similar effect.

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* The switch from analog to digital [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTUDSG8L5Jw#t=38 looked]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvGkE6azzWQ#t=1m04s like]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=us3_aCFOV08&feature=related this]].

This effect was the precursor to the infamous Blue Screen Of Death.

* ''TheIncredibleHulk'': when General Ross's soldiers try to take on the Abomination.

* "A communications disruption could mean only one thing: invasion." Governor Sio Bibble in ''StarWars: The Phantom Menace''.

* Happens in the movie version of ''{{Watchmen}}''.

** And used earlier in ''{{Failsafe}}''. The President is on the phone, having ordered a nuclear strike on New York in order to prevent the Russians from launching their own nuclear attack following an accidental bombing of Moscow. The audience hears the squeal caused by the phone on the other end of the line melting.
* Also from ''The Empire Strikes Back'', a three-dimensional example: the bridge of one of the Star Destroyers is taken out by an asteroid strike while Darth Vader (aboard the flagship) is hosting a video conference. The hologram of the stricken ship's captain flickers and fades out.

* In DistortedTravesty whenever you run low on health this effect occurs, along with the music and sound effects becoming slower/lower pitched. It's surprisingly unintrusive, especially compared with other games CriticalAnnoyance.

* Used in ''SchlockMercenary''.

* In ''DoctorWho'' episode "The Stolen Earth", when Harriet Jones is [[HeroicSacrifice killed by the Daleks]] her feed turns to static. Justified in that there was a psychic link driving the video-conference.

* In the 2010 BBC adaptation of ''DayOfTheTriffids'', the flash of light that blinds most of mankind also causes a loss of TV signal, and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJ_W9b9E0DA TV technicians watch with rising alarm as all the screens go full of static]].

* In the ''{{Babylon 5}}'' season two finale, ''The Fall Of Night'': A minor character had spent the entire season trying to find the ship that caused the death of his commander. The last shot of the season is the gun camera footage, indicating that [[CuriosityKilledTheCat he found it.]]

* ''The Suffering'' and it's sequel. The cameras are in on the scares. Sometimes they will only work until the proganist checks out the feed and sees something scary. Then static.

* The switch from analog to digital [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTUDSG8L5Jw&feature=related looked]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHBJj30WGaQ&feature=related like]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=us3_aCFOV08&feature=related this]].

* In the intro of ''{{Tekken}} 4'' Kazuya is beating up a bunch of Mishima Commandos with camera attachments, while his father, Heihachi, watches incredolously from a chopper viewscreen (and with good reason, considering that he last saw his son when he threw him into a friggin' volcano, minutes before eruption). After using the camera on the last goon to declare his intention to 'Take it all back', Kazuya smashes his fist through the camera (and presumably the guy's head), causing the screen in Heihachi's helicopter to turn to static.

* In the intro of ''{{Tekken}} 4'' Kazuya is beating up a bunch of Mishima Commandoes with camera attachments, while his father, Heihachi, watches incredolously from a chopper viewscreen (and with good reason, considering that he last saw his son when he threw him into a friggin' volcano, minutes before eruption). After using the camera on the last goon to declare his intention to 'Take it all back', Kazuya smashes his fist through the camera (and presumably the guy's head), causing the screen in Heihachi's helicopter to turn to static.

* The intro of ''{{Tekken}} 4'' (I THINK it was 4, but honestly, they all sorta' blend together after a while...) - 'Devil' Kazuya is beating up a bunch of Mishima Commandoes with camera attachments, while his father, Heihachi, watches incredolously from a chopper viewscreen (and with good reason, considering that he last saw his son when he threw him into a friggin volcano, minutes before eruption). After using the camera on the last goon to declare his intention to 'Take it all back', Kazuya smashes his fist through the camera (and presumably the guy's head), causing the screen in Heihachi's helicopter to turn to static.