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* In ''Manga/DragonBall'', this trope preserves Son Goku's status as TheHero. His much weaker best friend Krillin has a signature attack, the Kienzan/[[DubNameChange Destructo Disk]], that can cut through absolutely anything, including the most powerful enemies... so long as it actually hits them. This should mean that Krillin can take out anybody in the series (well, [[HealingFactor almost anybody]]), with Goku needing to do no more than provide a distraction. The problem is, Krillin feels compelled, even when trying to launch an ambush (the only way he has much chance of hitting the bad guys who are invariably much stronger and faster than him), to [[CallingYourAttacks scream "KIENZAN!" at the top of his lungs]]. Thus, he never accomplishes more than slicing off an alien's tail early in ''Anime/DragonBallZ''.

* ''Manga/FairyTail'': "Subtle" is not in Natsu's vocabulary. When trying to sneak through Edolas, he keeps breaking cover and confronting people [[TooDumbToLive even though his powers don't work]].

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dpg9Ov5mfs Colonel Hathi's March]] in ''WesternAnimation/TheJungleBook1967''. While it's probably just for show the first time, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YF9Svk9yNY0 the second time]] their method when searching for Mowgli even gets a {{Lampshade Hanging}} by Shere Khan, who simply sneaks past them.

* In ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda2'', Po's attempt at "stealth mode" is... [[EpicFail less than stellar]]. Then again, what would you expect from a 300-pound Giant Panda voiced by Creator/JackBlack?

* ''WebAnimation/OverSimplified'': in the "Russian Revolution" video, Lenin asks his chief "financier" Josef Stalin to have a "Quiet" heist that won't attract attention from the authorities and criticism from the moderate Socialists. Stalin's idea of "quiet" is an attack in broad daylight with [[GunsAkimbo dual-wielding assault rifles]] and high explosives.
-->"If ''this'' isn't quiet, then I don't know what is!"

*** The King's Singers, an {{a capella}} group, once covered the Trope Namer on a G&S tribute album. They missed the point and sang very quietly. It was terribly disappointing.

* ''WebAnimation/OverSimplified''; in the "Russian Revolution" video, Lenin asks his chief "financier" Josef Stalin to have a "Quiet" heist that won't attract attention from the authorities and criticism from the moderate Socialists. Stalin's idea of "quiet" is an attack in broad daylight with [[GunsAkimbo dual-wielding assault rifles]] and high explosives.
--> "If ''this'' isn't quiet, then I don't know what is!"

* The Steiner Scout Squad shorts from the ''Tex Talks TabletopGame/BattleTech'' series is composed of a lance of [[HumongousMecha Atlases]] stomping through places, performing 'reconnaissance' by vaporizing everything in their path. [[InsaneTrollLogic After all, if there's nobody alive to detect you, then you weren't caught.]]

* On ''WebVideo/OutsideXbox'', it's become a RunningGag that Mike will never carry out a ''[[VideoGame/Hitman2016 Hitman]]'' objective in the stealthy, "correct" way when an option involving firearms or explosives is available.

** When Caboose goes to sneak by the Red Base, he makes a fairly good job of it except for the fact that he loudly whispers "I am sneaking, I am sneaking..." as he moves a matter of metres away from the Red team members. And then he moves his piece of cover with him, right along Grif's line of sight. Amazingly, Grif is the only one who seems to notice anything.

-->"You're ghosting us, motherfucker! I don't care who you are back in the world. You give away our position one more time, I'll bleed you real quiet and leave you here. Got that?"

* Dillon from ''Film/{{Predator}}'' gets chewed out by Mac for being clumsy while they sneak into a rebel base.

* Dillon from ''Film/((Predator))'' gets chewed out by Mac for being clumsy while they sneak into a rebel base.

* Dillon from ''Film/Predator1'' gets chewed out by Mac for being clumsy while they sneak into a rebel base.

* In ''Series/MariaLaDelBarrio'', Soraya beats up Calixta when she suspects that Calixta murdered her mother. Calixta reveals that she is her mother. Soraya tells her to stop her sniveling (SHHHH!) despite everyone in the neighborhood already hearing the loud noises.

* During ''WebAnimation/FinalFantasyVIIMachinabridged'', Yuffie screams "SURPRISE ATTACK!!" when trying to ambush Rude and Tifa. Rude's forehead blinded Yuffie long enough for the Turks to flee or knock her out, and Tifa just charges Yuffie and punches her face while she's gloating.

*** The King's Singers, an a capella group, once covered the Trope Namer on a G&S tribute album. They missed the point and sang very quietly. It was terribly disappointing.

* The Silk Road, an anonymous drug dealing ring, was [[http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/10/silk-road-mastermind-unmasked-by-rookie-goofs-complaint-alleges/ undone]] by a string of laughable slip-ups that defeated the whole purpose of using Tor for the server. Highlights include the head honcho using the same screen name on a website about shrooms and on a job offers website, asking at Stack Overflow for details on how to connect to Tor, and registering for all of the above with an email ''made of his full name and linked to his college profile''. He also discussed his illegal drug-selling website on his Linkedin page which also was created using his real personal information.

** Case in point, one of the alternatives in the covert operation to kill Osama Bin Laden carried out by the U.S. Government was to use their state-of-the-art B-2 Spirit stealth bomber to sneak over the Pakistan border and quietly deliver a few (read:'''32''') guided penetrator bombs, a.k.a. "Bunker Busters", to Bin Laden's compound, in order to both destroy the compound and any hidden escape tunnels or shelters the terrorist leader may have had. Apparently, the effects of the bombs would have been akin to a significant ''earthquake'' going on in the middle of the city. Thankfully, such a plan was wisely disregarded, likely because it would be much easier for the Pakistani government (the country where Bin Laden sought asylum in) to forgive a small, temporary incursion of special operations soldiers going after one man as opposed to cratering a chunk of one of their cities and the civilian casualties that would incur.

-->''Took the silver, took my [[IncrediblyLongNote flight!]]''

* The Aria most likely to be listed as the intended target of G&S's parodic attack is "Écoute, compagnon, écoute" from ''Theatre/{{Carmen}}''. A very loud song about how sneaky you have to be to smuggle cigarettes.
* In the Broadway musical ''Falsettos'', a sweet moment in the hospital between Whizzer and Marvin is interrupted by their friends, whose dialogue of increasing decibels is as followed:
-->'''Dr Charlotte:''' Sh... Maybe he's tired.\\
'''Cordelia:''' Sh... Maybe he's waiting for us.\\
'''Charlotte:''' Sh... Maybe he's waiting for a visit
:: By this point, Marvin and Whizzer have heard them, and welcome the two in to complete the romantic quarter.
* In ''Theatre/LesMiserables'', Jean Valjean sneaks out of the Bishop's house after stealing the silver... and is immediately captured.
-->''Took the silver, took my [[IncrediblyLongNote flight!]]''
* "The Battle of Yorktown" from ''Theatre/{{Hamilton}}'' is a loud, boisterous song about the acts of espionage, stealth and guile that the Americans needed to use to win the tiitular battle.

* The Aria most likely to be listed as the intended target of G&S's parodic attack is "Écoute, compagnon, écoute" from ''Theatre/{{Carmen}}''. A very loud song about how sneaky you have to be to smuggle cigarettes.
* In the Broadway musical ''Falsettos'', a sweet moment in the hospital between Whizzer and Marvin is interrupted by their friends, whose dialogue of increasing decibels is as followed:
-->'''Dr Charlotte:''' Sh... Maybe he's tired.\\
'''Cordelia:''' Sh... Maybe he's waiting for us.\\
'''Charlotte:''' Sh... Maybe he's waiting for a visit
:: By this point, Marvin and Whizzer have heard them, and welcome the two in to complete the romantic quarter.
* In ''Theatre/LesMiserables'', Jean Valjean sneaks out of the Bishop's house after stealing the silver... and is immediately captured.
-->''Took the silver, took my [[IncrediblyLongNote flight!]]''

* In ''Film/BackToTheFuture'', the Libyans decide they need to turn their lights on just as they are approaching the mall parking lot, allowing Doc to see them coming, but subverted in that even with this it doesn't give Doc enough time to escape. Even stranger, they had their lights on when they passed Marty and Red so they chose to turn their lights off some time in between but then turned them on at pretty much the exact time when they would have wanted to have them off. Given the unreliability of the van they were driving (failing to restart for several attempts after a stall), it may have had faulty wiring.

** Then later they climb down a long ladder into a chamber surrounded by laboratories where various scientists are labouring away without noticing them until Alternate Barry stumbles over a series of clang-y objects one after the other. Everyone starts at each other for a long moment until one of the scientists hits the BigRedButton to summon lots of guards with Kalashnikovs to shoot the infiltrators.