History SuperScream / Literature

* In ''Gelsomino in the Land of Liars'' by Gianni Rodari, the main character has a voice that makes fruit fall off trees, breaks windows etc. Eventually he learns to control it somewhat, since after the book's events he becomes an opera singer.

* The "divine wind" ability of Celestial dragons in the ''Literature/{{Temeraire}}'' series, which is demonstrated to be powerful enough to [[spoiler:cause a mini-tsunami]] in the case of skilled users. That can [[spoiler:sink an entire fleet of warships in one shot.]] Described as "not so much sound as force" the first time it occurs onstage.
* Buzzer from Literature/SuperMinion has sonic powers, albeit much more subtle ones than most examples. He can't produce a noise loud enough to hurt someone with his power, but he can do things like [[BrownNote annoy people with infrasound]]

* The Mandrakes of mythology and, among others, ''Literature/HarryPotter'', have screams of instant death.
%% * In ''[[Literature/MaximumRide Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports]]'', one of the mutant things had this ability.

* Oskar Matzerath in ''Literature/TheTinDrum''.
* Zhang Fei in the novel ''Literature/RomanceOfTheThreeKingdoms'' during his stand at Chang Ban bridge, shouted so loudly it halts the advance of Cao Cao's army. Also rumoredly, one peon DIES at the mere shout of it.
* The short-lived Ace Howler in the ''Literature/WildCards'' series.
** Drummer Boy from the later books gets a strange variant. He's a Joker-Ace (superpowered individual with obvious mutations) who got his powers soon after he got his first drum kit, which resulted in six arms and chambers in his body that produced percussion when drummed upon. He later found that he could generate hyperfocused vibration through proper manipulation of these chambers, [[spoiler: and used this to destroy the brain of a tyrant's pet Ace]].

* Literature/{{Discworld}}'s Agnes Nitt, AKA Perdita X Dream. She once threatened a man of screaming so hard that his brains will came out of his nose. And yes, she can do that.
* The Great Shout in ''Literature/TheRiddleMasterTrilogy'' by Creator/PatriciaAMcKillip can start avalanches (if you're not careful), knock down towers. and complete the year's nut harvest remarkably quickly if you do it right. Everybody is a potential Shouter - you just have to be sufficiently moved.
** Among the famous Shouts is that vented by Queen Cyone of An on her wedding day. Neither she nor the King ever told anybody just what inspired it.
* In ''Literature/TheRunelords'' books the big bad Raj Ahtan gets enough voice augments that he goes from having a compelling voice to a sonic weapon capable of bringing down castle walls.

* In Creator/JamesHSchmitz's ''Literature/TheWitchesOfKarres'', the Leewit (do ''not'' call her just "Leewit") can whistle at, and thereby break, almost anything. Glass, crystal, eardrums...
* In ''The King of Katoren'', the birds populating the city of Decibel have had this ability for so long that the city's inhabitants have gotten used to it by constantly using earplugs and shielding their walls and windows; Stach, the main character, notes that due to the ensuing loss of interpersonal communication across the years, the two people in town who actually more thoroughly studied the problem have ''[[PoorCommunicationKills never]]'' been able to share their plans and combine them into the actual solution to the problem.

* Part of Evelyn's superpowers from ''Literature/ChameleonMoon''.
* ''Literature/{{Manifestation}}'': A character in one key scene has the ability to generate sonic pulses with his voice.
* ''Literature/TheDinosaurLords'': The favoured mount of many dinosaur knights is a hadrosaurus, or a duck-bill, largely because it can generate a powerful infrasound "scream", which can be downright crippling to people and beasts caught in the blast.
* ''Literature/JourneyToChaos'': Eric describes Retis' voice as a physical thing that can knock people over.

* In ''[[Literature/JackelianSeries The Court Of The Air]]'', warrior-grade [[MechanicalLifeform steammen]] can modulate their voices to shatter glass, ceramic, or even rock. They don't advertise this ability, preferring to retain it as a surprise attack.
* Musician of the Forest, Cranberry, has sound control as her magic in ''LightNovel/MagicalGirlRaisingProject''. She mostly uses it for super hearing and vocal projection, but weaponizes it in her fight against [[spoiler:Swim Swim.]]
* In ''Gelsomino in the Land of Liars'' by Gianni Rodari, the main character has a voice that makes fruit fall off trees, breaks windows etc. Eventually he learns to control it somewhat, since after the book's events he becomes an opera singer.

** And in Literature/The TrialsOfApollo series, this is one of the few cases of the [[spoiler: otherwise mortal Apollo getting his power back]], screaming ''so'' loud at Commodus he is ''evaporated''.

** And in the Literature/TrialsOfApollo series, this is one of the few cases of the [[spoiler: otherwise mortal Apollo getting his power back]], screaming ''so'' loud at Commodus he is ''evaporated''.

* Buzzer from [[Literature/SuperMinion]] has sonic powers, albeit much more subtle ones than most examples. He can't produce a noise loud enough to hurt someone with his power, but he can do things like [[BrownNote annoy people with infrasound]]

* In the ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'' novel ''Percy Jackson and the Battle of the Labyrinth'' [[spoiler: Pan gives his panic causing cry to Grover, who uses it to help win the battle]].

* Apparently anybody and everybody in the world of ''Literature/TheRiddleMasterTrilogy'' can do this when sufficiently moved.

* Apparently anybody and everybody in the world of [[Literature/TheRiddleMasterTrilogy]] can do this when sufficiently moved.

* Apparently anybody and everybody in the world of [[Literature/RiddleMasterTrilogy]] can do this when sufficiently moved.

* In Creator/CatherineWebb's book ''{{Mirror D|uet}}reams'', Laenan Kite weaves a spell into his scream, manipulating the pressure of the air so that glass shatters and the [[{{mooks}} guards]] are killed.

* In Literature/MaximumRide: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports, one of the mutant things had this ability.

* In MaximumRide: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports, one of the mutant things had this ability.
* ''{{Magnus}}'' has the 'Sword of the Lord', a sonic scream powerful enough to trigger earthquakes.

* In CatherineWebb's book ''{{Mirror D|uet}}reams'', Laenan Kite weaves a spell into his scream, manipulating the pressure of the air so that glass shatters and the [[{{mooks}} guards]] are killed.

* The "divine wind" ability of Celestial dragons in the ''Literature/{{Temeraire}}'' series, which is demonstrated to be powerful enough to [[spoiler:cause a mini-tsunami]] in the case of skilled users.
** That can [[spoiler:sink an entire fleet of warships in one shot.]]

* Among the famous Shouts is that vented by Queen Cyone of An on her wedding day. Neither she nor the King ever told what inspired it.

* The Great Shout in ''Literature/TheRiddleMasterTrilogy'' by Creator/PatriciaAMcKillip can start avalanches (if you're not careful), knock down towers. and complete the year's nut harvest remarkably quickly if you do it right.

* The short-lived Ace Howler in the ''WildCards'' series.

* {{Literature/Discworld}}'s Agnes Nitt, AKA Perdita X Dream. She once threatened a man of screaming so hard that his brains will came out of his nose. And yes, she can do that.
* The Great Shout in ''Literature/TheRiddleMasterTrilogy'' by Creator/PatriciaAMcKillip can start avalanches (if you're not careful), knock down towers and complete the year's nut harvest remarkably quickly if you do it right.
* In TheRunelords books the big bad Raj Ahtan gets enough voice augments that he goes from having a compelling voice to a sonic weapon capable of bringing down castle walls.

* In Creator/JamesHSchmitz's ''TheWitchesOfKarres'', the Leewit (do ''not'' call her just "Leewit") can whistle at, and thereby break, almost anything. Glass, crystal, eardrums...