History Main / UnsoundEffect

* [[http://derwen.deviantart.com/art/The-Contest-72255448 This cartoon]] from Website/DeviantArt utilizes a lot of unsound effects, like *drink*, *belch*, *incredible loud belch*, and *crickets chirp*. Strangely, it also includes the best onomatopoeia for a power belch ever seen.

* At Website/FiveMinuteDotNet, "GAK!" is always the sound of a character dying, regardless of how they die.

* ''Franchise/DespicableMe'':
** Gru [[SayingSoundEffectsOutLoud actually says "Lightbulb" whenever he gets an idea]].
** Gru is frequently [[CallingYourAttacks calling his attacks]]. [[LampshadedTrope Lampshaded]] in ''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe2'' when Lucy tells him he should announce his weapons ''after'' he fires them, "for example, [[HiddenWeapons Lipstick Taser!]]"

* [[http://dummcomics.com/2010/01/10/strawberrys-quest-part-10 This]] installment of ''[[Webcomic/DummComics Frog Raccoon Strawberry]]'' has "Whatever Sound Snow Makes When It Encapsulates People and Freezes!!"

* ''Webcomic/{{Demon}}'': [[http://www.shigabooks.com/demoncomment.php?page=449 ADDUCTION! ROUNDHOUSE!]]

* The instruction manual for the [[UsefulNotes/Playstation2 PS2]] game ''VideoGame/FlowerSunAndRain'' includes screenshots accompanied by ordinary sound effect words, until one image gets the effect "KATHARINE!"

** And someone was killed by the sound effect RROD referring to the [[UsefulNotes/Xbox360 Red Rings of Death]].

* IDW's ''ComicBook/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' comics use this a lot, especially in issues written by Katie Cook.

* In ''WebOriginal/JennyEverywhere'' comics, the sound of Jenny's "shifting" is sometimes rendered as simply "''Shift!''", although it's also been ascribed a variety of more conventional sound effects, including "''Womph''", "''Fzzzz''" and "''Splink''".

** Another strip has Linus telling Charlie Brown that it's "soppping wet" outside. Charlie Brown remarks "I think you mean sopping wet", followed by Snoopy walking in accompanied by sound effects of "SOPPP SOPPP SOPPP".

** A 1962 strip has Snoopy playing "polkas, schottishes and waltzes" on the accordion.

* ''Comicbook/{{Hawkeye|2012}}'' had "KGLASSSSSSS" to represent a SuperWindowJump.

* Frequently used in ''ComicStrip/TwistedToyfareTheatre''. Examples include Franchise/SpiderMan running across some assorted Beanie Baby animals. They make sounds like "Moo. Moo.", "Me-mew. Me-mew.", "Quack. Quack." and "Kangaroo sound. Kangaroo sound.". And when he gets them to stampede, it's "Angry Moo! Moo!", "Angry Baa! Baa!" and "Angry kangaroo sound! Angry kangaroo sound!".

** The ''[[CloningBlues Scientific Progress Goes "Boink"]]'' arc lampshades this with the sound the duplicator makes.

* ''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe'':

* Lucy Knisley makes good use of this one, particularly in [[http://www.lucyknisley.com/galleries/comics/images/2942 "Some Thumb Sucking"]], in which she uses 'stress stress stress', 'calm', 'suspicion' and 'sneaky' (not to mention the variant 'sneeeaky' and then some more 'calm') as sound effects in only 9 panels.

It's worth noting that {{manga}} has different conventions regarding onomatopoeia. Manga has much more that can be done with an Unsound Effect. Japanese writers will use sound effects to denote sounds, like heartbeats or door slams, but also to represent more abstract events like "smiling" ("niko niko", or just "ni!", or extended to "nikkori"), "sudden realization" ("ha"), "the sound of silence" ("shiiiiiiin"), "a menacing atmosphere" ("gogogo"), "the sound of staring" ("jiiiiiiiiii") or even "the sound of blushing" ("kaaaaa"). These are known as phenomimes when they describe external phenomena and psychomimes when they describe psychological states (both can be referred to in Japanese as ''gitaigo'', lit. "mimetic words", since they mimetize such cases). Some {{anime}}, generally the more surreal sort, turn these into actual sound effects, even if said sound effects are just the character saying the sound effect (like, for example, the character will actually say "jiiiiiiii" when staring at somebody).

** '''''SHIPWRECK!'''''

* ''Webcomic/GastroPhobia'': One strip has "MAKE-OUT SOUNDS!" when Phobia kisses the doctor.

* The anime versions of ''Anime/PaniPoniDash'', ''Manga/LuckyStar'', ''Manga/HayateTheCombatButler'', ''DD Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar'', ''LightNovel/OkamiSan'' and ''Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei'' have all used "staring" ("jiiiiiiiiii") as a vocalised sound effect, in ''[[Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei SZS]]'''s case as a RunningGag.

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* Not used in ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles3'', but for whatever reason is very frequent in the ''Future Redeemed'' DLC's cutscenes - where their contents are more like parentheticals that were just in the script for voice direction. Examples include but are not limited to:

* In ''Manga/OnePiece'', during the Alabasta arc, the camel in the last panel gets, appropriately, ''CAMEL!!(ラクダ!!)''
** As Corazon's power is to be QuieterThanSilence, he always gets the effect of "Shi~n!/No Sound!" when doing things with it.

* ''Webcomic/GhastlysGhastlyComic'': At least one subversion: "Fap! Fap! Fap!" is not [[ADateWithRosiePalms what]] the character entering the scene (and you) thought. It was [[spoiler:a perfectly innocent snowball fight with the snowballs hitting the house wall.]]