History Main / SpaceIsNoisy

* Averted the moment Sora removes the atmosphere in their game against Jibril in ''LightNovel/NoGameNoLife'', as both all sound effects and background music almost instantly disappears with only the characters internal voices being audible. Additionally, Jibril discovers to her horror when she tries to speak that not a single sound leaves her lips, thus putting her at risk of loosing the game.

* In ''LightNovel/StarshipOperators'', 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.

* In the ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' episode featuring ''Film/{{Starcrash}}'', there's so many explosions, laser fire and the like that Jonah groans out "In space, no one can hear you scream! It's so loud!"

* Averted in the ''ComicBook/{{Tintin}}'' story ''Explorers on the Moon'' where a meteorite impact on the moon is silent and the characters explain for the benefit of younger readers why this is so.
* {{Lampshaded}} in one issue of the ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics''' ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure2'' tie-in. Which points out that, while there is no sound in space, they're going with artistic license.

* In the third ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf'' movie, Weslie and Wolffy are accidentally sent outside of the candy spaceship and into space. They can still talk perfectly fine while in space.

* The Gerry and Sylvia Anderson series ''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.

** It's a [[Music/TheRollingStonesBand gas, gas]], [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091306 gas.]]
** B-flat is the key of most vuvuzelas. Sorta ruins the majesty of the astronomical phenomenon, don't it?
** Recently, [[https://twitter.com/NASAExoplanets/status/1561442514078314496 NASA actually managed to successfully record the sound produced from a black hole.]][[note]]This particular recording is amplified and mixed with other data[[/note]] [[HellIsThatNoise Enjoy the soothing sounds of a]] ''[[HellIsThatNoise real]]'' CosmicHorror!

* ''Film/{{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.

* Possible exception in the fifth season finale of ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'', where a fusion device is transported into space just before it explodes with a muted-but-audible thud. It seems likely that the writers were aware of this, but felt that the RuleOfCool warranted ''some'' kind of noise.

** It's a [[Music/TheRollingStones gas, gas]], [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091306 gas.]]

* ''Anime/LegendOfGalacticHeroes'', sounds of lasers and explosions abound.

* ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' rips this trope to shreds by driving it UpToEleven: even the space ''between'' space is noisy.

* Anything written by Bob Budinsky. Unlike many writers he always makes sure that absolutely no sound effects are present in space scenes. This even played a role in the plot of a ''[[ComicBook/TheTransformers Transformers]]'' issue he wrote where Blaster and Grimlock didn't notice a fight in a crater on the moon because they couldn't hear it.

* Played with in ''Anime/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.

* ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'', which provides the page image for this trope, makes sure to [[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2001-06-01 get this one right]] (and pats itself on the back for doing so). And again [[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2012-06-06 here.]]

* From the [[UsefulNotes/{{NASA}} Apollo Program]], there's an example of [[http://web.archive.org/web/20160402053419/http://blog.moonzoo.org:80/2011/07/18/sounds-on-the-moon hammer sounds on the Moon]]. Which may have been conducted through the ground, the astronaut, and into the mic. Solids are media too!

* Even mighty NASA, it seems, [[http://web.archive.org/web/20130607132523/http://lcross.arc.nasa.gov/audio/MissionOverview-HQversions.web.mov falls victim to this trope]]. Rocket noise and separation charges and so forth. They even seem to have launched up a record player along with it. There's air ''inside'' the ship, obviously. At least one documentary has explosions producing sound effects in space, though probably for dramatic effect.
* Although it is true that no sound could travel in an absolute vacuum, space is not a true vacuum, but is actually filled with an ''extremely'' thin gas. This means that [[http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/mystery_monday_030922.html sound CAN travel in space]] — although it takes a very loud sound and a very sensitive ear to hear it. As a notable example, the chaotic gas surrounding a particular black hole about 250 million light-years away produces a sound (detected by observing the ripples it causes with the Chandra X-ray Observatory satellite) — a [[http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/blackhole_note_030909.html B-flat]], to be precise.
** It's a [[Music/TheRollingStones gas, gas]], [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091306/ gas]].

* From the [[UsefulNotes/{{NASA}} Apollo Program]], there's an example of [[http://web.archive.org/web/20160402053419/http://blog.moonzoo.org:80/2011/07/18/sounds-on-the-moon/ hammer sounds on the Moon]]. Which may have been conducted through the ground, the astronaut, and into the mic. Solids are media too!
* At the very beginning of the universe, before expansion got very far, everything in existence was close enough together for sound waves to travel normally. Here's an approximation of [[https://youtu.be/kpchtF6KnMg the sound of the entire universe's first million years]].

* ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'', which provides the page image for this trope, makes sure to [[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2001-06-01 get this one right]] (and pats itself on the back for doing so). And again [[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2012-06-06 here]].

* In ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob'' there is [[https://bobadventures.thecomicseries.com/comics/44 a silent pop followed by a silent kaboom]].

** The otherwise superb ''[[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Star Trek TOS]]'' episode "Balance of Terror", both the Romulan and the Enterprise crews cut their ship's power to avoid detection. During this, the crews ''whisper'' so they will not alert the enemy. This is actually [[JustifiedTrope justified]] by the fact that starship sensors are established to be able to detect even very faint vibrations - such as heartbeats - from very long distances: the impact of loud voices hitting the hull could give them away.

* In the Transformers fanfic ''[[Fanfic/AChildShallLeadThem A Child Shall Lead Them]]'', Unicron's roar is audible even in space. Snarl points out a possible justification -- Unicron being a GodOfEvil, the laws of science might not apply to him.

* Zig-zagged in the film version of ''Manga/{{Akira}}'': the trope is played straight when Tetsuo begins to destroy SOL, not so much when SOL fires its laser on Neo-Tokyo beforehand.
* ''Anime/CowboyBebop'' plays this trope completely straight.

* Lampshaded in ''[[VideoGame/PuyoPuyo Puyo Puyo Tetris]]'', where on top of the characters going to space and communicating with each other with no problems, Ess becoming scared when she sees Suketoudara the anthropomorphic fish is accompanied by an UnsoundEffect reading "*screaming loud enough to be heard in the vast vacuum of space*".

* In ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob'' there is [[http://bobadventures.comicgenesis.com/d/20060812.html a silent pop followed by a silent kaboom]].

This is a subtrope of SpaceDoesNotWorkThatWay.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' episode "Bubbled", the characters spend much of the episode talking in a vacuum. The episode in general is a case of SpaceDoesNotWorkThatWay, complete with the titular magic bubble bouncing through an AsteroidThicket like a pinball.

* Averted, like many many more [[SpaceDoesNotWorkThatWay space tropes]] by ''Anime/{{Planetes}}''. Of course, it's hard to notice when the soundtrack is busy with dramatic orchestral tunes, quiet, contemplative melodies, or even the character's banter. Not to mention all the sounds that you actually can hear inside the space suit, such as the hissing of air.

** ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'' featured "seismic charges", essentially noise-bombs used in space. In the commentary track of the DVD, one of the filmmakers commented that they were aware there's no sound in space, but used them anyway because they're [[RuleOfCool so cool]].
** [[http://darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0294.html This]] ''Webcomic/DarthsAndDroids'' strip explains (or at least attempts to) how a sonic mine could work in space.

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* Zig-zagged in ''Film/{{Akira}}'': the trope is played straight when Tetsuo begins to destroy SOL, not so much when SOL fires on Neo-Tokyo beforehand.

* Averted in ''Roleplay/DarwinsSoldiers'' whenever space or the inside of a wormhole is involved. In one case, Ricky whispers his [[FamousLastWords last words]] to James, who can't hear them because they're in a wormhole.