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* [[{{Warhammer 40000}} The Imperial Infantryman's Uplifting Primer]] on how to take out an enemy scout: "Recite the Litany of Stealth to decrease your chances of being heard."
** In defense of the Guard and a moment of FridgeBrilliance, if one looks in the back of the book, where the litanies, blessings, and prayers are, one will note the absence of a "Litany of Stealth". In other words, to kill an enemy scout without being heard, ''shut the warp up!''

* Somehow, [[TheLegendOfZelda Link]] can always stay unnoticed as long as he's out of sight no matter how loudly he grunts and screams.

* [[LooneyTunes "Be vewy vewy quiet, I'm hunting wabbits! Hu-hu-hu-hu-hu-hu-uh!"]]

* A large number of characters in James Fenimore Cooper's novels announce their presence by stepping on dry twigs. MarkTwain roundly mocked this, and other features of Cooper's work, in his critical essay ''FenimoreCoopersLiteraryOffenses''.

* A large number of characters in James Fenimore Cooper's novels announce their presence by stepping on dry twigs. MarkTwain roundly mocked this, and other features of Cooper's work, in his critical essays.

* A large number of characters in James Fenimore Cooper's novels announce their presence by stepping on dry twigs.

* One of the many reasons the Babylon5 episode "Grey 17 Is Missing" is considered one of the worst episodes of the show is that the "ultimate predator" is about as subtle as a sledgehammer in a bell factory.

* In ''{{Freefall}}'', the security AI at Ecosystems Unlimited has NoIndoorVoice and is in desperate need of a software upgrade. "[[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff1700/fc01634.htm Security guard: RECOGNIZED! Room 101 door: OPENED! Element of surprise: RETAINED!]]"

* A YuYuHakusho fic mentioned how mice are loud, and thus Hiei's stealth was more comparable to a fish.

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* Toward the end of the Snow Goons arc, CalvinAndHobbes sneak out of bed and go downstairs, shushing each other to keep quiet, then once they're out in the open, Calvin starts laughing loudly and yelling for the Snow Goons to die, waking his parents.

* NinjaBurger gives players a bonus to attacks if they're willing to shout a sufficiently impressive BattleCry during combat... the instruction manual notes that this is entirely antithetic to Ninjutsu, and even the game itself (where just being seen at all requires the player character to ''cut off a finger in dishonor''), but it's what the Ninja do in movies, so that's what the game runs with.

* 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.

* Can happen via GameplayAndStorySegregation in MassEffect 2, given the existence of a stealth mode and Commander Shepard's habit of loudly exclaiming whenever he/she finds some variety of weapon or loot. The volume of these exclamations seems to be unintentional, though, as they are considerably louder than most other examples of in-game dialogue.

* An episode of one of the Batman animated shows had him teaming up with Harley Quinn against the Joker. As they were sneaking into his hideout, Harley is behind the Batman saying "Sneak - Sneak - Sneak". She stops when Batman turns around and glares at her.

* Well it's not quite an attempt at stealth, but in MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic, Sweetie Belle sings a goodnight lullaby loudly enough to knock furniture over in "Stare Master".

* In XiaolinShowdown while Jack Spicer sneaks though the Xiaolin Temple.

* Well it's not quite an attempt at stealth, but in MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic, Sweetie Belle sings a goodnight lullaby loudly enough to knock furniture over.
-->"Hush now, Quiet now, LITTLE SLEEPYHEADS"
** In another episode, Pinkie Pie utterly ruins Rainbow Dash's attempt at stealth by getting her so irritated that she yells at Pinkie to stay quiet. This, of course, gets them found out.

* In the ''DoctorWho'' serial "Time and the Rani", a monster spends an episode and a half stalking the heroes, then finally gets the drop on them, pops up from behind a rock a foot away, and roars triumphantly for ten seconds.

* In the climax of ''StarWars: TheForceUnleashed'', Emperor Palpatine is trying to tempt Starkiller to turn to the Dark Side when Rahm Kota breaks his bonds, screams [[BigNo "No!"]], steals Palpatine lightsaber with the Force, and lunges and the Emperor. Palpatine looks up, momentary bewildered, before blasting Kota mid-lunge with Force Lightning, indicating that his attack could have worked if he hadn't yelled.

* Subverted in ''{{Naruto}}'', of all places. In a [[{{Highly Visible Ninja}} rare display of stealth]] the titular character has completely vanished off his enemy's radar. The foe in question looks confused, angry and a little scared, and spits out "Where did he go!?" At this point, Naruto belows at the top of his lungs, "I'M OVER HERE!", [[{{death from above}} drops from the trees]] and delivers a kick right to the dumfounded baddie's face, sending him flying.

* During Ace's cover story in OnePiece, when trying to infiltrate The Marine G2 base, he winds up blowing his cover by punching out a Marine who talked smack about Whitebeard.

--> '''Judge Dredd''': [turns around and shoot] Death. Court's adjourned.

* In ''TheEmperorsNewGroove'', Kronk sneaks out the palace with the unconcious Kuzco in a sack, humming his own dramatic theme music as he goes. At one point he hides against a wall, holding the current note while a couple of peasants wander past. Of course, the fact that the wall is covered with [[{{Mayincatec}} enormous stone figures]] all [[CrowningMomentOfFunny pointing at him]] doesn't help his cause.

* 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.