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** ...and is immediately captured.

* In ''{{Bioshock}}'', it's not always easy to see splicers slinking around the darkened corridors. They make life considerably simpler by constantly mumbling gibberish to themselves.

** {{It gets better}}; for the chorus, they form a... chorus line. And in at least one production, they pull ''hats with brightly glittering sequins'' from out of nowhere. In fact, considering the music, it takes a choreographer with superhuman self-control to ''not'' turn it into a kickline. There's a particularly good example [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4Wj2yMuTIU here]]. The fun really starts around the two minute mark.

The calling card of HighlyVisibleNinja. Compare SoMuchForStealth, when some small indication blows one's cover.

** On top of all this, it's even a ''subversion'' -- the sleeping Major-General "thought he heard a noise," goes out to check, [[FailedASpotCheck completely fails to notice the pirates and policemen hiding about the house]] (despite them laughing fortissimo at the Major-General's observation), and is about to go back to bed when his ''daughters'' wake up... and, well, just go see the show.

* Los Illuminados in ''ResidentEvil 4'' would often laugh or say "I got you!" in GratuitousSpanish when trying to sneak up behind you. Some of them actually shout [[LampshadeHanging "Behind you, you idiot!"]] in Spanish. Then again, maybe they were just too crazy to understand the benefits of a stealthy approach. Or, they were actively resisting the brainwashing.

* A vintage ChuckJones ''LooneyTunes'' cartoon "The Dover Boys" played with this trope, as the [[RunningGag Coward, Bully, Cad and Thief]] [[DastardlyWhiplash Dan Backslide]] saw the Dover Boys hiding under his pool table, and then shouting his dastardly plans at the top of his lungs.

* In the first two BrothersinArms games, when ordering the placement of your squads in an ambush, the player character would bellow loudly, even if the enemy was quite close and not alerted of your presence. The third game, Hell's Highway, averts this tendency by introducing a situational mechanic that makes the player character whisper to his squadmates if the enemy is unaware.

-->''QUIET! I'M TRYING TO SNEAK UP ON THEM!''
* The leading cause of justified team killing in online games is one member drawing attention to the group while trying to be a BigDamnHero. Regardless of if said person survives the attack they're sure to spend the rest of the match getting shot by their team.

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[[caption-width:240:The mouse will never see it coming.]]

-->''"I will have to use stealth instead" said L and jumped in the broken window screaming''
-->-- ''Fanfic/LightAndDarkTheAdventuresOfDarkYagami''

-->''Recite the Litany of Stealth to reduce your chances of being heard.''
-->-- ''[[{{Warhammer40000}} The Imperial Infantryman's Uplifting Primer]]''

* From the obscure '90s {{Muppet}} sitcom ''GregTheBunny'', Tardy the Turtle: "I am singing the quiet song, the quiet song, the quiet song..."

* In ''LesMiserables'', Jean Valjean sneaks out of the Bishop's house after stealing the silver.

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* The TropeNamer is the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4Wj2yMuTIU eponymous parodic song]] from GilbertAndSullivan 's ''ThePiratesOfPenzance''. In it, the titular pirates are sneaking up on Major-General Stanley's house, while singing '''at the top of their lungs''' (It's marked ''fortissimo'' in the score and has trumpets and crashing cymbals) about how quiet and sneaky they are being, with the occasional "shush! quiet!" for good measure.
-->''With cat-like tread'' ('''KER-THUMP!''')
-->''Upon our prey we steal'' ('''KER-THUMP!''')
-->''In silence dread'' ('''KER-THUMP!''')
-->''Our cautious way we feel'' ('''KER-THUMP!''')
-->''[[LampshadeHanging NO SOUND AT ALL]]'' ('''KER-THUMP!''')
-->''[[BlatantLies We never speak a word]]'' ('''KER-THUMP!''')
-->''A fly's foot-fall would be DISTIIINCTLY heard....'' ('''TRUMPETS''')
** On top of all this, it's even a ''subversion'' -- the sleeping Major-General "thought he heard a noise," goes out to check, [[FailedASpotCheck completely fails to notice the pirates and policemen hiding about the house]] (despite them laughing fortissimo at the Major-General's observation), and is about to go back to bed when his ''daughters'' wake up... and, well, just go see the show.
** {{It gets better}}; for the chorus, they (in some productions, anyway) form a... chorus line. Complete with leg kicks. And in at least one production, they pull ''hats with brightly glittering sequins'' from out of nowhere. In fact, considering the music, it takes a choreographer with superhuman self-control to ''not'' turn it into a kickline. There's a particularly good example [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4Wj2yMuTIU here]]. The fun really starts around the two minite mark.
** And the lines quoted above are followed by the policemen ''accompanying them'' ("Tarantara, tarantara") without the pirates realizing the policemen are there. Definitely Oper(ett)a Logic there.
*** In a YouTube video of the song, one can see a pirate actually ''discussing the plot with a policeman'', without realizing that it was a policeman he was speaking to! I know it's supposed to be nighttime, but ''come on!!!!''
** In the Broadway production, the Pirate King "accidentally" struck a cymbal in the Orchestra pit with his sword, even before the song started.
* The Aria most likely to be listed as the indended target of G&S's parodic attack is "Écoute, écoute, compagnons" from ''Carmen''. A very loud song about how sneaky you have to be to smuggle cigerettes.
* In ''LesMiserables'', Jean Valjean sneaks out of the Bishop's house after stealing the silver.
-->''Took the silver, took my FLLLIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHT!''
** ...and is immediately captured.