History Main / SpaceIsNoisy

** The ''[[StarWars A New Hope]]'' novel justifies it the same way, as does the RadioDrama. The novelization uses the ''Hunting Party'' explanation during the Death Star escape to explain why the gunners can hear the scream of TIE fighters around the ship.
* And in some of FredSaberhagen's ''Literature/{{Berserker}}'' novels.

* The ''MobileSuitGundam'' series says everything you hear is the computer simulation in mecha for the pilots to raise awareness in combat.

* ''TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' rips this trope to shreds by driving it UpToEleven: even the space ''between'' space is noisy.
** {{Gunbuster}} also has noisy space.
* In ''{{Outlaw Star}}'' we see this trope played completely straight in one episode with an "Ad Ship" flying through space blaring music.
** In that particular scene the ship was blaring radio transmissions to the nearby ships, not actual noise through space, though.

* In ''{{Apollo 13}}'' a wind effect was used for extravehicular shots of the module in freefall, really as an effect that is {{Quieter Than Silence}}.

* ''{{Armageddon}}'' does this with ''everything''. Explosions, the shuttle flights, drilling on an airless asteroid and so on. Given that the film is stuffed with enough errors to give anyone with even a trace of scientific knowledge an aneurysm though this shouldn't really come as a surprise.
* ''{{Superman}} II'': Zod and his minions hold a conversation on the moon.
** Considering the [[NewPowersAsThePlotDemands kinds of powers]] that Kryptonians had [[PreCrisis in that era]], this doesn't seem too way out. At least it wasn't [[http://comiccoverage.typepad.com/comic_coverage/2009/01/the-superpowers-that-time-forgot-part-3.html Super Antiquing-Breath]].
*** It really has nothing to do with their powers. It's still a matter of the sound travelling through a vacuum from one person to another.
** They did attempt keep this trope in mind (sometimes) [[PostCrisis after the Crisis]]. After the Death of Superman, the Cyborg threw Doomsday out of the Solar System- it showed Doomsday laughing as he hurtled through space, but they had the narrator make a disclaimer along the lines of "You cannot hear sounds in space, but if you could...".

* In ElizabethMoon's ''Literature/FamiliasRegnant'' series it is mentioned that despite the soundlessness of space, the computer systems on warships are programmed to generate sound effects appropriate to ongoing events to provide audio cues for the crew. This allows them to take advantage of the considerable unused information bandwidth, without overloading visual readouts. At least one ship captain is said to have edited his sound effects to mimic that of an orchestra playing.

** AS do certain series of {{Mobile Suit Gundam}}.
** And in some of FredSaberhagen's ''Literature/{{Berserker}}'' novels.
** In {{Starship Operators}}, the sound effects are added at the insistence of the reality TV producers who sponsor the ship - with the claim that it's what their viewers expect - much to the annoyance of some crew members.
** The Literature/PaulSinclair novel ''Against All Enemies'' by JohnHemry used this, too:

* The 2003-2009 ''[[Series/BattlestarGalacticaReimagined Battlestar Galactica]]'' reboot series does not use silent space, but sounds in space are muffled. This is meant to represent the way explosions and fired weapons sound from the interior of the ships. Demonstrating the aforementioned "law of cinema", if a scene intercuts between shots outside and inside a fighter, the muffling increases inside the cockpit. The producers stated in interviews that they tried soundless space but it made transitions too jarring.
* The ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode "42" uses the silence of space for effect [[spoiler: when the two lead characters are in vehicles moving away from each other]], but elsewhere in the episode, even the sun makes noise.
** Stars have an atmosphere, and if you could enter it without being burnt to a crisp, it would sound very loud indeed.

* According to Gene Roddenberry, ''Franchise/StarTrek'' was originally planned without sound in the space scenes; the network required him to put sound effects in because without them, the scenes [[RealityIsUnrealistic "looked fake"]].
** In ''Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan'', you can hear thunder and see lighting in the nebula.
** ''Film/{{Star Trek IV|The Voyage Home}}'' is particularly egregious, its plot relying on whale songs traveling for light years through space for the BigBad to notice that the songs had stopped.
** ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'' had a particularly egregious example. One episode opens with Trip sitting in his quarters facing away from his window, ''hears'' a ship fly past outside and gets up to look at it.
* The Gerry and Sylvia Anderson series ''{{UFO}}'' (1970-1) accompanies all its [[strike:model shots]] spacecraft with noise, from the eerie pulsating whine of the {{Flying Saucer}}s to the roar of the interceptors. Scenes involving people in spacesuits tend to stick to the silence-in-space rule.
* ''{{Lexx}}'' followed this trope to its logical conclusion. Superhuman characters who could survive vacuum could also ''speak out loud'' there.
* ''{{Space 1999}}'': Notably in the episode "The Last Enemy" the Alphans can not only hear a spacecraft flying over the base, but cower on the floor with their ears covered as missiles fly overhead.

* ''{{Melody of Oblivion}}'' does a bit of LampshadeHanging when the characters are fighting in space:

* ''SailorMoon R the Movie''. Just... the whole thing after they teleport into space.
** It could have been worse. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5B4_VCeHfjo They could have been on outer space surf boards.]]
* Space in ''LegendOfTheGalacticHeroes'' is not only noisy, it also seems to be explicitly filled with air because it has (get this) WIND IN SPACE!
* ''CowboyBebop'' plays this trope completely straight.
* ''{{Planetes}}'' averts this. EVA scenes have only the sound of the focus character's life support system a la ''2001: A Space Odyssey'', as well as their communication and maneuvering systems. When it shows establishing shots of ships, stations, or Luna City, all we hear is music.
* Played with in ''GaoGaiGar''. Mic Sounders, a rock star robot with the ability to give the other Brave Robots status buffs with ThePowerOfRock. When he uses this power in space, it seems like this trope, but it's explained in his introduction that his guitar doesn't actually produce sound waves, but rather ''microwaves''. The rock music is actually a sort of TranslationConvention to show the invigorating effects of the microwaves on the robots' power systems in a human context.

* Exception in ''DCOneMillion'': Superman of the 853rd Century flies out of the atmosphere with a cry of "Up, Up and "

Very rarely will characters who find themselves outside of the ship require the use of the one way to talk to somebody in a vacuum without radio - going up to them and touching your helmet to theirs, allowing the vibrations to transmit directly from your suit to theirs. Even when distance, stellar activity, jamming, etc. are present, which would normally render most, if not all, radio communication impossible.

* Oddly enough, even though it's high up on the Science Fiction Hardness Scale, ''[[{{Halo}} Halo 2]]'' does this. The (foot) battle in space even violated canon! To be slightly fair, the sounds were muffled.

* In ''{{Spore}}'', battling in the very high atmosphere won't make any noise. However, battling in outer space will; partly justified in that outer space isn't meant to be realistic at all, and your spaceship is magnified to the same size as a planet or solar system.

* The film ''TombRaider'' features some space shots to illustrate that the planets are aligning. ''The planets themselves'' make a deep humming noise as they move through space; apparently they're cruising on impulse power.

* ''{{Gekisou Sentai Carranger}}'' had one episode where's the MOTW's plan was to use the noise of toots in order to piss off aliens to destroy earth.

* Averted in ''{{Firefly}}'', where space is pleasantly silent.

* ''{{RobotJox}}'': This {{MadeOfExplodium}} {{HumongousMecha}} {{XtremeKoolLetterz}} B-movie features a climactic battle where robots (with no legitimate reason to be space-capable) spontaneously launch themselves into orbit [[spoiler: only to blow your mind by AVERTING the trope! If you are watching for the first time and haven't heard about the blatant aversion, this singular nod to realism is so jarring you may literally fall out of your chair.]]
* ''Silent Running'' has audible nuclear explosions in space.

** Its sequel, ''2010'', plays this trope straight.
* The 1972 film, ''Silent Running'' is completely faithful to silent space - even in the case of a nuclear explosion.
* In the movie ''Robot Jox'' the two titular robot jox take their final battle up into space. The villain shoots the good guy with a missile and there is no accompanying kaboom in the wide shot, just the soundtrack.

* In the ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'' movies, there are some flight-cruising sounds, and in [[Film/AlienResurrection the fourth one]], an [[StuffBlowingUp explosion.]]

** "Parting of the Ways" also used the silence of space to good effect when [[spoiler:Lynda]] was exterminated. The Dalek appeared outside the space station window and we saw its lights flash ''as though'' it was saying "Ex-ter-min-ate!" before it shot the window out -- but we heard nothing except [[spoiler:Lynda]]'s scream.

* Lampshaded at the end of ''SonicColors'', when Eggman is stranded in the vacuum miles from Earth while robot minion Cubot rambles on and on.

* An early ''TheFarSide'' comic had a balding, lab-coated scientist jump up in the middle of a crowded theater shouting "Stop the Movie! Stop the Movie! Explosions don't go 'BOOM!' in a vacuum!"
** Which may be more of a LampshadeHanging than an exception, but we'll leave it here anyway.

* Averted in ''{{Firefly}}'', where space is nice and silent.

* ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'' makes sure to [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20010601.html get this one right]] (and pats itself on the back for doing so).