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11	->'''Bandy:''' May I have your attention please? This is your supreme overlord speaking.\
12	'''Worker #1:''' Y-Yes! Supreme overlord!\
13	'''Worker #2:''' You don't gotta say it if she can't see you.
14	-->-- ''Webcomic/{{Dregs}}''
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18	One of the sure signs of fascism or totalitarianism is big TV screens, radios and loudspeakers (occasionally mounted on vehicles) and posters plastered all over the streets, with speakers blaring [[PropagandaMachine propaganda and messages]] from the GloriousLeader reminding his subjects to obey authorities, [[HappinessIsMandatory smile because they live under the best leader in the world]], and report dissidents. This is different from having a PA system in a private location just broadcasting instructions to visitors or to the staff, because most of the time, people in free countries don't expect to have someone care about their actions and whereabouts at home, on the street, or in public transit.
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20	LaResistance may or may not get the chance to hack into the system and [[VoiceOfTheResistance broadcast a message of rebellion]].
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22	If this trope is PlayedForLaughs, then it may be an example of MegaphoneGag.
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24	Related to BigBrotherIsWatching. See also PropagandaPiece. Contrast LoudspeakerTruck, a passing vehicle makes a very loud noise to indicate awkwardness. There's also IntercomVillainy, which is when a villain will make passing comments or mock the heroes opposing them over the PA system they are using and give some personality to the what is happening on-screen.
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26	!!Examples:
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29	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
30	* In ''Anime/ErgoProxy'', fellow citizens of Romdo are encouraged to consume and make waste.
31	* Father Cornello's radio broadcast in ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' has shades of this.
32	* The third part of ''Anime/{{Genocyber}}'' has the citizens of what is implied to be the world's last surviving city being ordered to increase their production by 20% or be incarcerated.
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35	[[folder:Comic Books]]
36	* In ''ComicBook/AchilleTalon: Le Roi des Zôtres'', this is used as part of a ZeroApprovalGambit: the cheap-ass record is supposed to sound like adoring crowds mindlessly repeating their leader's call to war, but starts skipping in the middle. Every listener easily recognizes it as a fake (one noting it must be [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII at least forty years old]]) and revolts -- AllAccordingToPlan.
37	* In ''ComicBook/VForVendetta'', unlike the movie (see below), the public address system is used for a nightly broadcast from the Voice of Fate (which V enjoys toying with, first driving the man who provides the voice insane, and later hijacking it for his own address). Later, after Finch reports that [[spoiler:V is dead]], the government wastes no time getting that news out over the public address system.
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40	[[folder:Fan Works]]
41	* ''Fanfic/{{Origins}}'', the Republic Intelligence Service does this in areas they control. When [[spoiler:Sarah]] stumbles on facilities in places nobody would think to look, a looped message issues warnings about violation of the law and resulting imminent boardings.
42	* ''WebVideo/YuYuHakushoAbridged'': It turns this trope into a tool for the apparently quite proactive Neighborhood Watch Committee. They constantly pass by mounted in a truck with loudspeakers to inform everyone of their inane announcements.
43	-->"The Neighborhood Watch Committee would like to remind you that necrophilia is ''still'' illegal!"
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46	[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
47	* ''Anime/MacrossDoYouRememberLove'':
48	** Though not really propagandistic, the civilians aboard the ''Macross'' are on the receiving end of a couple throughout the film, usually warning that the ship is under attack/about to transform and that it would be a ''very'' good idea to seek shelter or shelter in place.
49	** A later sequence shows Admiral Global taking over the ship's civilian broadcasting network to announce the brokering of a peace treaty between the ''Macross'' and Vrlitwhai's[[note]]Britai/[[Anime/{{Robotech}} Breetai]]'s[[/note]] fleet.
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52	[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
53	* ''Film/TheAdventuresOfBuckarooBanzaiAcrossThe8thDimension'': There's a public address system inside the Yoyodyne facility that occasionally broadcasts brief messages and propaganda to the Red Lectroid workers.
54	* ''Film/BestSeller'': {{Subverted}}. In the opening, there's a political campaign truck driving through the streets blaring its message. It turns out to [[HiddenInPlainSight be full of robbers]] in rubber {{Nixon Mask}}s heisting the police HQ evidence room.
55	* ''Film/CarryOnBehind'': Major Leep sets up loudspeakers around Riverside Caravan Park to broadcast news to the guests and instructions to his staff. His announcement of this in his first broadcast is intercut with a montage of unimpressed guests smashing up or muffing the speakers so they won't interrupt their holiday.
56	* ''Film/ChernobylAbyss'': The Pripyat speakers broadcast the announcement that the city must be evacuated due to an explosion at the plant. The droning loudspeaker only heightens the tension as frightened townspeople board buses.
57	* Used for BlackComedy in ''Film/{{Dredd}}''. In the crime-plagued dystopia of Mega City One, a recorded voice cheerfully announces that the food court will be ready in half an hour, as an automated sweeper removes the blood and dead bodies for [[HumanResources recycling]].
58	* Used during the battle of Stalingrad by the Red Army as a means to bolster morale in ''Film/EnemyAtTheGates''.
59	* The infamous "Leave the Bronx!" sequence from ''Film/Escape2000''.
60	* In ''Film/FightClub'', Tyler Durden delivers some over a bullhorn to the first class of Project Mayhem.
61	-->'''Tyler Durden:''' Listen up, maggots. You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else. You are the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world.
62	* ''Film/InvasionOfTheNeptuneMen'''s "DO NOT PANIC. DO NOT PANIC." gets {{lampshade\|Hanging}}d by [[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 Mike Nelson]]: "Yeah, right."
63	* ''Film/{{Jonestown}}'': While in Guyana Jim Jones had loudspeakers set up so the members of Peoples Temple would hear his voice constantly, no matter where in Jonestown they were. When he wasn't giving speeches himself, the speakers were playing recordings of his previous speeches.
64	* ''Film/MadMax1''. The unseen female dispatcher primly announces directives that bear little relevance to the brutal gang-plagued world the underfunded Main Force Patrol is trying to keep in line.
65	-->''The Captains of the Hall have asked that pursuit officers refrain from using the slang "Bronze" for the Main Force Patrol. The word is considered disrespectful, and citizens should be actively discouraged from its use.''
66	* ''Film/MisterRoberts'': At regular intervals, an unseen crewmember laconically announces "Now hear this, now hear this" followed by Captain Morton's latest act of petty tyranny. This serves as a ChekhovsGun for the IsThisThingStillOn moment, when the captain inadvertently broadcasts to the entire crew how he coerced Roberts into toeing the line.
67	* The film version of ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour'' starring John Hurt features loudspeakers endlessly announcing production quotas [[BlatantLies that never seem to match the impoverished condition of the country]]. And of course there's the ubiquitous telescreens that [[BigBrotherIsWatchingYou double as surveillance devices]], constantly broadcasting propaganda or the 'confessions' of those caught by the Thought Police. At the end of the movie after being broken in mind and spirit, we see the protagonist's public confession as well.
68	* ''Film/ReformSchoolGirls'': The speaker tower in the middle of the compound is known as 'the Voice of God', as Warden Sutter uses it solely to broadcast moralistic religious homilies to the school.
69	* The Nazi propaganda tower in ''Film/SavingPrivateRyan''.
70	-->'''Capt. Miller:''' ''[repeating]'' "The Statue of Liberty is kaput." Well, that's disconcerting.
71	* ''Film/StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry'' has a mundane example in the form of PA announcements aboard the ''Enterprise'' informing crewmembers to remain on watch due to the ship being outside of friendly territory.
72	* ''Film/{{Underwater}}''. When the UnderwaterBase is damaged the automated PA warnings are affected as well, so they vary between relevant information like ''"Structural failure is imminent!"'' or useless corporate PR like when everyone's staring at the giant undersea monster advancing on them: ''"Tian Industries: We have big things in store for you!"''
73	* There are large loudspeakers all over London in ''Film/VForVendetta'', which implies that the Norsefire government engages in this trope. They get used by the government a grand total of ''once'' in the very beginning, announcing that a "yellow-coded curfew is in effect". Otherwise, the only use they get is when V hijacks them to provide a soundtrack for his fireworks-laden bombings.
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76	[[folder:Literature]]
77	* In ''Literature/EightySixEightySix'', the Republic of San Magnolia's state-owned media broadcast falsely reports that the country's military is taking zero casualties against the Legion on a daily basis, and always ends each broadcast reminding the citizens to [[PatrioticFervor take pride in their nation's might and glory]].
78	* According to ''Literature/TheAccusation'', the North Korean government has speakers located everywhere to blast propaganda 24/7. Even the Ohs' tiny farming village has one loud enough to be heard from their house.
79	* ''Literature/BraveNewWorld'' has the standard version. The author's later ''Island'' (a [[{{Utopia}} positive counterpart]]) features a variant -- trained parrots, which recite uplifting slogans.
80	* ''Literature/CharlieWilsonsWar'': After the Soviet Union pulls out of Afghanistan, the country collapses into CivilWar [[FullCircleRevolution involving widespread atrocities]]. The book presents the disturbing image of loudspeaker trucks for the US government's cross border program following in the wake of the mujahedeen armies, urging them to respect the human rights of the Afghans they were slaughtering.
81	* The telescreens from ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour'', which double as [[BigBrotherIsWatchingYou surveillance devices]] so you're not allowed to turn them off.
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84	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
85	* ''Franchise/{{Arrowverse}}'':
86	** ''Series/{{Arrow}}'':
87	*** When the Arrowcave gets a PA system, Felicity jokingly announces over it: "This is your overlord, Felicity Smoak..."
88	*** As required for any brainwashing-enforced utopia, the residents of the HIVE UndergroundCity in Season 4 have to listen to this trope.
89	** ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'': In "[[Recap/LegendsOfTomorrowS5E13TheOneWhereWereTrappedOnTV The One Where We're Trapped on TV]]", the Fates have rewritten history so Earth is a ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour''-type dystopia.
90	--->'''Loudspeaker:''' The Fates are always watching. Relinquish free will. The world is perfect.\
91	'''Gary:''' ''[wearing sandwich board saying THE WORLD IS WRONG!]'' The world is wrong! Can't you people see? None of this is how it should be!
92	* ''Series/BabylonFive'': In "[[Recap/BabylonFiveS04E18IntersectionsInRealTime Intersections in Real Time]]", at one point the interrogator leaves [[spoiler:Sheridan]] alone overnight with a loudspeaker that speaks the following statement in the interrogator's own voice:
93	-->'''Interrogator:''' ''[repeating over loudspeaker]'' You will cooperate with the State for the good of the State and your own survival. You will confess to the crimes of which you have been accused. You will be released and returned to society a productive citizen if you cooperate. Resistance will be punished, cooperation will be rewarded.
94	* ''Series/TheBarrier'': The streets of Madrid have many loudspeakers. Recurring messages includes reminders to not drink water from unsanctioned wells, to social distance in all but name (implcitly because of story's iteration of ThePlague) or that [[FascistsBedTime the curfew]] is coming up.
95	* ''Series/BlakesSeven'':
96	** "[[Recap/BlakesSevenS1E1TheWayBack The Way Back]]" opens with a [[BigBrotherIsWatchingYou security camera]] panning over [[GovernmentDrugEnforcement drugged and docile citizens]] walking zombielike through white-painted corridors to the cheerful sound of muzak and a voice announcing various government directives.
97	** In "[[Recap/BlakesSevenS2E1Redemption Redemption]]", our heroes are captured by the [[TheComputerIsYourFriend computer-controlled dystopia]] that built the Liberator. Despite not being in the Federation they have all the standard tropes of a sci-fi dystopia: black-clad FacelessGoons, bases that look like British nuclear power stations, and this trope calling on guards to capture and eliminate [[SlaveLiberation a group of rogue slaves]] (it serves a foreshadowing when one of these slaves turns up to help them).
98	** In "[[Recap/BlakesSevenS2E7Killer Killer]]", as a SyntheticPlague sweeps through a Federation base, tannoy speakers announce that the situation is under control and everyone is to remain at their post, [[BlatantLies after a scene where people are shown fleeing in panic and dying in the corridors]].
99	** In Season 4, the Terran Federation has [[TheWarOfEarthlyAggression spread its empire]] due to GovernmentDrugEnforcement. In "[[Recap/BlakesSevenS4E12Warlord Warlord]]", secret resistance video shows Federation citizens with zombie-like expressions and [[YouAreNumberSix numerals stamped on their foreheads]], moving listlessly up and down elevators while a soothing voice tells them, "You are cared for. You are loved." [[MoodDissonance The voice continues]] even when the guards get bored and [[KickTheDog start shooting people for fun]].
100	* ''Series/{{Chernobyl}}'' uses the real audio of the order to evacuate Pripyat after the titular disaster, beginning with "Vnimanie, vnimanie" (attention, attention). Loudspeakers mounted on military vehicles drive through the city, announcing to the populace that they need to take a few days' worth of luggage for a "temporary evacuation", which ended up being permanent as the town was too irradiated to be safe for human life for the foreseeable future. The ominous announcement is also used in the show's trailer.
101	* While ''Series/{{Community}}'''s loudspeaker announcements are usually basically the kind of announcements you'd get in a community college with as much craziness as Greendale, when a social rating app leads to Greendale becoming a dystopia straight out of 1970s science fiction, so do the loudspeaker announcements.
102	-->'''The Dean:''' Tranquillity is Advancement. A Happy Three is a Future Four.
103	* ''Series/Daredevil2015'': In "[[Recap/Daredevil2015S3E4Blindsided Blindsided]]", a prisoner disguised as a guard helps Matt Murdock get out of prison in the middle of a riot. "Code 33... Code 33... Code 33... Lockdown is now in effect!" sounds throughout the scene until Matt finally exits the prison to the outside.
104	* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
105	** This trope is omnipresent in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS4E7TheMacraTerror The Macra Terror]]". Bonus points for half of the canned orders being in the form of catchy, earworm-style jingles! Of course, the other half are straight-up BigBrotherIsWatchingYou...
106	** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E6TheAgeOfSteel The Age of Steel]]", an unpleasantly angry voice can be heard over the Cyberconversion factory's PA system:
107	--->'''"Chamber 5 now open for human upgrading. Chamber 7 now open for human upgrading. Chamber 12 now closed for sterilisation. All reject stock will be ''incinerated''."'''
108	* ''Series/TheExpanse'': Used for the SilentCredits of "[[Recap/TheExpanseS01E03RememberTheCant Remember the Cant]]" after Havelock is attacked and left for dead (though he survives). There's just the murmur of the crowd and a voice announcing over and over: ''"This is a Star Helix security directive. Curfew is now in effect on Medina Level. Unauthorised personnel will be detained or arrested on sight."''
109	* ''Series/ElInternadoLasCumbres'': After gym class at the BoardingSchoolOfHorrors, a recording reminds the students that a five-minute shower is required and that good personal hygiene is a sign of respect to oneself and others.
110	* [[Administrivia/TropesAreFlexible Non-villainous example]] in ''Series/{{MASH}}'', via various loudspeaker announcements from whoever was being the CommunicationsOfficer ([[https://www.metv.com/stories/these-are-the-actors-who-made-pa-announcements-on-m-a-s-h usually not Radar but the similar-voiced Todd Susman]]). This also happens in the [[Film/{{MASH}} 1970 film]], to the point where it's even employed in place of closing credits!
111	* The Mirror Universe in ''Series/TheMiddleman'' has giant screens broadcasting propaganda messages from [=FatBoy=] Industries.
112	* ''Series/ThePrisoner1967'' has the eternally cheerful PA announcer (Creator/FenellaFielding) announcing public events and giving dire warnings of possible rain showers. Occasionally (as in "[[Recap/ThePrisonerE6TheGeneral The General]]"), the PA system is given over to other propaganda voices.
113	* ''Series/RaisedByWolves2020'': A flashback to the war devastating Earth has a siren and a female voice announcing: ''"This is an emergency broadcast. Oxygen levels have made this zone inhospitable to human life. Evacuate to the nearest Green Zone until further notice."''
114	* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'':
115	** This always seems to be happening on [[ScaryDogmaticAliens Cardassia Prime]]. According to the Literature/StarTrekNovelVerse, a permit is required to ''not'' have them playing in any public space, such as a restaurant. They even play them in mess halls aboard Central Command starships.
116	** In the episode "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS03E07CivilDefense Civil Defense]]", Sisko, O'Brien and Jake are working in one of the old ore-processing centers when O'Brien accidentally triggers a leftover Cardassian program designed to put down a Bajoran workers' insurrection. [[Characters/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineGulDukat Dukat]] repeatedly pops up in pre-recorded videos telling the "workers" to surrender before they get killed. Sisko attempts to surrender, initially resulting in another pre-recorded message from Dukat praising the decision; however, they are unable to supply the proper Cardassian security codes to confirm their "surrender", resulting in ''yet another'' pre-recorded message from Dukat lamenting their choice as the program releases a lethal gas into the ore processing chamber. The program eventually sends out a pre-recorded distress signal, which the real Dukat receives. He transports onto the station, gloats about their impending doom, and tries to transport back out; the transport fails, and one final pre-recorded message plays, this time from Dukat's then-superior in the Cardassian government. The message excoriates Dukat for trying to flee the station, revokes all of his security codes, and encourages him to die like a Cardassian. Dukat's phrase "ATTENTION BAJORAN WORKERS" has become a meme in ''Franchise/StarTrek'' fan circles.
117	* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': In "[[{{Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS3E15YesterdaysEnterprise}} Yesterday's Enterprise]]", an AlternateHistory is created where the Federation is at war with the Klingon Empire. This trope is heard with the RevealShot that Ten Forward has turned into a soldiers mess.
118	-->''Now hear this. Fleet formation briefing in main war room at fifteen hundred hours. Doctor Joshua Campbell, report to station ops. Ensign Toms, please forward combat information. Ensign Thomas to CIC.''
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121	[[folder:Music]]
122	* Music/{{Negativland}}'s song "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDfrrgqy_Eo Christianity Is Stupid]]" takes the piss out of [[Film/IfFootmenTireYouWhatWillHorsesDo a terrible Christian propaganda film]] ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5o_LwqX77I see it here]]) by {{Sampling}} a sermon by Rev. Estus Pirkle. The preacher describes what he thinks the U.S. would be like under totalitarian Commuist rule, with loudspeakers constantly blaring "Christianity is stupid! Communism is good! Give up!". The remix repeats these words obsessively and completely out of context over a musical backing of insistently pounding drum machines and ominous HeavyMetal guitars. Conceived and produced by the late Richard Lyons after he found an album by Pirkle in a thrift shop, it was later used to create [[https://thedailywrazz.wordpress.com/2009/12/21/we-dont-have-enough-data-negativlands-helter-stupid-20-years-later/ one of the group's more massive scandals]].
123	* "Shut Up, Be Happy", the intro to Music/IceT's ''The Iceberg/Freedom of Speech... Just Watch What You Say'', samples the mock-dystopian announcements from [[Music/DeadKennedys Jello Biafra]]'s "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Scsboubr7Q Message from Our Sponsor]]" over the riff of Music/BlackSabbath's self-titled song. "SHUT UP. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO THINK, OR DEPRESSION MAY OCCUR." [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYy4mdw8GEc Here's the 2020 Updated Version]] for the Coronavirus era.
124	* A variation occurs in "Kilroy Was Here", the opening movie for Music/{{Styx}}'s ''Caught in the Act Live'' concert. Here, a holographic projection of [[BigBad Dr. Righteous']] face gives an "uplifting speech" during a rock-burning bonfire.
125	* Used by Music/TheProtomen. "WE HAVE CONTROL. WE KEEP YOU SAFE. WE ARE YOUR HOPE."
126	* In Utata-P's [[Music/{{Vocaloid}} Hatsune Miku]] song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWIjvPuY2jo "This is the Happiness and Peace of Mind Committee"]], a lot of the chorus is they line "BEING HAPPY IS YOUR DUTY" repeated over and over. [[spoiler:They'll kill you if you don't comply.]]
127	* Music/PinkFloyd's ''Music/TheWall'': "We are waiting to convene at 1:15 outside Brixton Town Hall, where we shall be waiting..."
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130	[[folder:Radio]]
131	* One episode of ''Radio/TheNavyLark'' has periodic announcements made on the ship's comm for Leading Seaman Riddle to report to the bridge, which leads to the joke near the end when the announcer realizes that ''he is Leading Seaman Riddle''.
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134	[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
135	* In ''TabletopGame/{{Paranoia}}'', Friend Computer has always used the PA system set up throughout Alpha Complex to [[LostInTransmission efficiently broadcast]] timely and pertinent [[DystopianEdict official messages]] and [[PropagandaMachine mandatory quarter-hourly morale enhancement]] to the citizenry. The introduction of personal data devices to each citizen merely makes this system [[BlatantLies more perfect]]. [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial Naturally, these messages are always useful and coherent and are never bizarre, unworldly gibberish, nor does a Troubleshooter's personal data device ever deliver such messages when he is trying to sneak somewhere]], and anyone claiming that such things take place [[AllCrimesAreEqual is a traitor and should be executed]].
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138	[[folder:Video Games]]
139	* ''VideoGame/AliceMadnessReturns'' has some mad orders broadcast in the factory levels of the first chapter.
140	* ''VideoGame/BioShock1'' features corny "Rapture Reminder" {{Public Service Announcement}}s and messages like, "Andrew Ryan asks: Are you a ''man'', or a ''slave''?" being broadcast over Rapture's PA system. ''VideoGame/BioShock2'' has Sofia Lamb using the PA system to broadcast similar messages.
141	* ''Franchise/BatmanArkhamSeries'':
142	** In ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamAsylum'', Joker takes over the PA system along with the rest of the island. [[spoiler:He does the same in the prequel ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamOrigins'', this time in Blackgate Prison.]]
143	** Various rules are spoken out throughout ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity'' by Dr. Hugo Strange throughout your time in the city, including the countdown to Protocol 10. [[spoiler:Once Protocol 10 is initiated and Strange is later killed by Ra's al Ghul, the announcements stop.]]
144	* ''VideoGame/BeyondGoodAndEvil'': The leader of the Alpha Section on the floating screens in the market. He even comments on your missions, claiming responsibility for benefits and blaming you for damages.
145	* ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands}}'':
146	** In ''VideoGame/Borderlands1'', all of the major [[MegaCorp arms manufacturers]] seem to enjoy doing this (particularly Atlas and Jacobs, who have both featured prominently in DLC).
147	** Hyperion-controlled locations in ''VideoGame/Borderlands2'' tend to have this; the content of the recordings vary depending on where you are and whether the area is populated mostly by robots or people (yes, they speak canned orders over PA to robots; [[MST3KMantra don't think too much about it]], [[RuleOfCool it's cool]]). Mostly it's delivered by an automated voice, although sometimes it's a recording of [[BigBad Handsome Jack]] instead, and in Lynchwood it's always the Sheriff or [[OnlySaneMan Deputy Winger]].
148	--->'''Overlook:''' Hyperion is proud to announce the size of your bi-yearly medicine shipment has [doubled]! Congratulations on your [second] bottle of aspirin.\
149	'''Robot-controlled locations:''' "A dying puppy". "A baby in tears". If the previous statements elicited any emotional reaction, please report to your supervisor for summary destruction.\
150	'''Wildlife Exploitation Preserve:''' Exercise caution when unloading slag barrels. [[VillainousDemotivator The life you save may be more monetarily valuable than your own.]]\
151	'''Lynchwood:''' A few of you have learned that Handsome Jack is my boyfriend. If you think I'm just a pretty face who got this town as an anniversary gift, [[BloodKnight you know where to find me]].\
152	'''Opportunity:''' Hey kids, do you know what your mommies and daddies gave up to live here in Opportunity? Literally nothing! You're paid to be here! I provide all the food and protection you need. [[ItsAllAboutMe Remember, we should all love our parents, but love me more.]]
153	** Parodied in a quest of ''VideoGame/BorderlandsThePreSequel'' wherein an unfortunate female announcer is saying ridiculous stuff (like "booty salads") because she just sits in a dark room and reads what's she's given, and who's giving her stuff is some bored Dahl soldier {{Mooks}}. Naturally, in true ''Borderlands'' fashion, [[ViolenceIsTheOnlyOption she hires you to kill them]].
154	* ''[[VideoGame/CityOfHeroes City of Villains]]'':
155	** The arrival area of Grandville, capital of the Rogue Isles, has large screens with Lord Recluse giving a rousing speech on his philosophy.
156	** Whenever the players visit the Axis Earth/Council Empire dimension in instanced missions, the streets are lined with loudspeakers. However, they are broadcasting motivating military drumbeats instead of propaganda.
157	* Chinese Speaker Towers in ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerGenerals''. They ''heal'' friendly units who hear them. You can even install them on the Overlord tanks and Helix choppers to turn them into pseudo-Medics.
158	* A secondary Objective early in the ''VideoGame/{{Crysis}}'' spinoff campaign Warhead has the player character, Psycho, tasked with blowing up a mobile radio jammer the North Koreans are using to spam instructions to surrender to the American Marines. At that point in the campaign, you don't have any anti-vehicle guns, so you can accomplish it by stacking landmines under it and setting them off with a grenade.
159	* The player can build their own loudspeakers in ''VideoGame/CultOfTheLamb'', which increase the work speed of any follower close by.
160	* In ''VideoGame/DeusEx'', there are prominent screens displaying propaganda slogans in a data entry office of a prestigious biotechnology company.
161	* In ''VideoGame/{{Dishonored}}'', not only are there canned orders over loudspeaker, but you also hear one of the main villain's announcements. One of the Low Chaos options you have is to make the guy playing the recordings switch them out and play a rather revealing message that shows the main villain for what he really is. You can also assassinate the voice of the recordings and they will be replaced by a different person in later missions.
162	* In ''VideoGame/TheDivision2'', the enemy factions will set up propaganda loudspeakers that you can attack and seize to replace with friendly propaganda.
163	* In Propast of ''VideoGame/DreamfallChapters'' the loudspeakers continually tell people to stay home and connected to the Dreamachine.
164	* Enclave Eyebots roam the Capital Wasteland of ''VideoGame/Fallout3'', blaring propaganda and patriotic music from the Enclave radio station (while zapping raiders, vicious wild animals, and rampaging robots to build the people's trust).
165	* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'': The Al Bhed's (the rebellious tech-using faction) home is attacked while you're present, and you have to fight your way out while a loudspeaker keeps repeating something in the Al Bhed language. It's not pro-regime propaganda (they're the ones attacking), but it's no less annoying.
166	* ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas'': This is the way Mike Toreno communicates with Carl during missions. It's quite amazing how he manages to have a loudspeaker just where a plane-dropped package fell, despite it being carried away by wind quite a bit.
167	* ''VideoGame/HalfLife2'':
168	** The usual orders from Overwatch to the Civil Protection troops (which are transmitted over loudspeakers for everyone else to hear) are often mixed up with short motivational speeches and warnings of the consequences of resisting Combine rule. ''Episode 1'' hints that Overwatch is some sort of AI, as damage to the Citadel causes her to malfunction, issuing gibberish orders in the same stilted monotone and repeating phrases over and over. By ''Episode 2'' she's been replaced with a new system who speaks in a terse, colder tone.
169	** [[LesCollaborateurs Doctor Breen's]] "Breencasts" certainly fit as well, since they praise the regime of "Our Benefactors". Sure enough, LaResistance hacks them at one point, and [[AbsentMindedProfessor Dr. Kleiner]] begins broadcasting a message of hope, rebellion, and whatever else happens to come to mind at the moment of recording, including a very [[SesquipedalianLoquaciousness sesquipedalian]] recap of events thus far in the storyline and urgings to take advantage of the collapse of the Combine suppression field to, ahem, do your part for the re-population of humanity. Which is unfortunate, since it's supposed to be brief evacuation notice.
170	* ''VideoGame/HaloInfinite'': One of the objectives you can fulfil is the destruction of Banished Propaganda Towers, which broadcast messages from a Grunt communications officer. Their propaganda messages are a mix of the communications officer giving some insight into life in the Banished's forces and demoralising remarks towards the scant UNSC remnants still on the ring. As the player progresses, these reports gradually devolved into hilariously transparent attempts to cover up the Master Chief's dismantling of the Banished's garrisons and leadership.
171	* ''VideoGame/ImprobableIsland'': On the [=FailBoat=], a recorded voice of the Watcher blares every ''minute'', reminding the battered and bruised contestants that they won't be leaving until either they succeed at retraining (earning the Watcher's favor by defeating monsters below decks) or the day ends, and until they do, the contestants back on the island are stealing their spotlight.
172	* ''VideoGame/JakIIRenegade'' does this; Baron Praxis spends most of the game "motivating" the populace over the city's public address system. Occasionally he addresses Jak specifically, probably to the confusion of everybody else.
173	* Baby Panau's broadcasting vans in ''VideoGame/JustCause2''. Absent from the rest of the game; however, not even the bases have a PA system, just alarms.
174	* ''VideoGame/LegoMarvelSuperHeroes2'': Kang has loudspeakers allowing him to broadcast his thoughts to the entirety of Chronopolis, including telling someone who beat his high score at a video game that he hates them, or asking the citizens to throw stuff at the Avengers. Everyone, including the [=NPCs=], acknowledge how annoying they are, and a sidequest involves smashing the loudspeakers.
175	* ''Franchise/MassEffect'':
176	** The {{Trope Namer\|s}} is ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'', in which you hear Jedore, a Blue Suns officer, doing this during the mission on Korlus. None of your team members are impressed, and one of them inevitably serves up a LampshadeHanging. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzj7uRNzLrs/ Here is a list]] of all the squad reactions to hearing the loudspeaker for the first time [[DevelopersForesight (including characters that you shouldn't have at that point in the game)]]. Even the henchmen get in on it after a while, noting it'd be more helpful if their boss came out and fought instead of yelling at them.
177	** In ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'', as you storm through Grissom Academy, the Cerberus commander in charge for attacking the facility and abducting the last few students remaining attempts to demoralize and sway the students over the intercom. You can shut him up if you find and shoot the generator powering the computer that's hijacked the academy's PA system, which then allows Kahlee Sanders, the level's MissionControl, to do a heroic version of this trope.
178	** ''VideoGame/MassEffectAndromeda'' has three separate examples.
179	*** During the side mission "Dissension in the Ranks", they find canned orders sowing discontentment and treason through the ranks of the kett. Ryder tries to track down the source of the signal, only to find that they were intentionally led to a bunker with a communications system set up by the Primus, the kett's [[DragonWithAnAgenda second-in-command]]. The Primus wants to help Ryder take down the Archon (for her own benefit) and will attempt to strike a deal. Alternatively, should the player leave this mission till after taking down the Archon, the mission plays out differently -- Ryder finds many Archon loyalists executed, and messages from the Primus detailing her plan of action is now that she's in charge: Kill any remaining Archon loyalists, then call home for backup.
180	*** During Jaal's LoyaltyMission, Jaal's former friend-turned-AbsoluteXenophobe, Akksul, has anti-alien propaganda blaring over speakers through his base. Ryder's team lampshades how annoying the repeated message is and that, knowing the type of person Akksul is, there's probably no way of turning it off.
181	*** The mission to the Archon's ship has a kett blaring out angry instructions over the loudspeaker as Ryder and their team massacre their way through the ship. They eventually stop when Pathfinder Zavin Raeka introduces herself to the guy via her guns.
182	* In ''VideoGame/NierAutomata'', the Council of Humanity gives occasional uplifting broadcasts from their moon base, urging the Android forces to continue the fight against the alien-built Machines occupying Earth. [[spoiler:By the middle of the game, you learn that [[HumanitysWake humans are long extinct]] and the "Council of Humanity" is a sham put up by Androids' leadership to keep their army from falling into despair. ''Then'' you play through an operation that becomes an absolute fiasco, and get to hear one of the "encouraging" Council of Humanity messages while your character is [[ControllableHelplessness limping away to find a quiet place to die]], just for a bit of salt in the wound.]]
183	* ''VideoGame/Persona5'' has a variant of this in one of the final dungeons in the game: [[spoiler:Shido's canned speeches campaign slogans over loudspeaker.]]
184	* ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'': Aperture Science CEO Cave Johnson made numerous recordings to automatically play as his [[DisposableVagrant valued test subjects]] navigated Aperture's [[DeathCourse Enrichment Spheres]], offering his [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} characteristic]] brand of encouragement. In the ''Lab Rat'' tie-in comic, it looks like even after Cave's death, the company modified speakers to issue orders in his voice.
185	* In a couple of spots in ''VideoGame/Prototype2'', a soothing voice reminds the citizens of the Green Zone that [[BlatantLies Gentek is their only hope for a cure, which is almost ready anyway]], and at least they're not in the Red or Yellow Zones.
186	* The ''VideoGame/RainbowSixSiege'' map "Border" includes looping audio complete with the memetic line "Do NOT attempt to board the helicopter!" Choosing to shoot out the speakers or not is a gameplay decision, since the sound can cover up some of the quieter operators' movements.
187	* ''VideoGame/RedFaction'':
188	** The EDF have... let's see... [[PropagandaMachine the Voice of Mars]], an almost unnoticeable military announcer (usually drowned out by explosions or gunfire) for base [=PAs=], the obviously-canned ''[[BlatantLies "Get out of the vehicle and you will not be harmed!"]]'' vehicle [=PAs=], and finally another civilian announcer for the curfew timer and other minor notifications, such as asking civilians to report suspicious activity. After a sector is liberated, the announcements change to friendlier (and often pro-Red Faction) announcements.
189	** The first game has Ultor using the mines' PA system to boss miners around.
190	* In ''[[VideoGame/SimSeries SimCopter]]'', you can broadcast canned orders over your helicopter's loudspeaker by pressing the F-keys. These range from "Heavy traffic in this area. Use alternate routes." to "Get out of here now, before you all die. Or Worse!!" to "I'd like a room with a shower please."
191	* In the ''VideoGame/SniperElite'' franchise, Nazi loudspeakers loudly broadcast orders and propaganda. In some of the games, they are loud enough to muffle gunfire.
192	* In ''VideoGame/SplinterCellChaosTheory'', during the mission in Seoul, North Korean troops have set up a series of loudspeakers that are blaring poorly-translated propaganda. Sam can shoot up the loudspeakers as a bonus objective, and will eventually find the broadcasting station by a command vehicle on the way to his primary objective, allowing him to permanently deal with ''that'' annoyance.
193	* ''VideoGame/{{STALKER}}'' features a few.
194	** A military roadblock in the Cordon, at the south end of the Zone, mixes warnings for the general populace to stay away from the dangerous Chernobyl Exclusion Zone and a drunken officer yelling at his troops.
195	** The other factions - namely, the militaristic Duty and the anarchistic Freedom - spew propaganda to encourage neutral stalkers to join. It's most notable in ''Clear Sky'', the second game.
196	* ''VideoGame/StarCraftII'' has Dominion holoboards on the first mission, which seem to be loudspeaker but with a hologram of the Emperor saying his own propaganda lines. A later mission on Korhal displays the classic loudspeakers.
197	* Federation Starbases in ''VideoGame/StarTrekOnline'' have a pool of [=PSAs=] that play randomly over the PA, just audibly enough to remind players that, "unaccompanied tribbles are an environmental hazard," or that "starship traffic has right of way". One of them is, "security to the transporter room," intoned with a complete lack of urgency.
198	* ''VideoGame/SystemShock2'': Xerxes is the Von Braun's onboard computer. It continually broadcasts prerecorded messages -- all keyed in by [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Captain Korenchkin]], both before and after becoming [[BodyHorror controlled]] by [[PuppeteerParasite The Many]]. See if you can tell which is which!
199	-->'''This is Xerxes.''' [[MegaCorp Tri-Optimum]] reminds you that there are only one-hundred-sixty-three shopping days until Christmas. An extra work cycle just twice a week will give you the spending money you need to make this holiday a very special one.\
200	'''This is Xerxes.''' Remember, replicator restrictions are in place for the good of all of us. All unauthorized database interactions will be dealt with to the utmost degree of the law.\
201	'''This is Xerxes.''' Can you not feel the glory of the flesh? Do you not yearn to be free of the tyranny of the individual?
202	* The Announcer in ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' will praise/berate the RED/BLU teams depending on their match progress.
203	* ''VideoGame/{{Warframe}}'':
204	** The Grineer deploy Regulator drones in certain tilesets that broadcast a constant stream of propaganda. The propaganda actually buffs nearby {{Mooks}}.
205	** The [[spoiler:Kuva Fortress, the seat of the Grineer's power, has video screens throughout that occasionally display broadcasts from [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen the Worm Queen]].]]
206	** [[spoiler: The Narmer faction, from ''The New War'' into the ''Veilbreaker'' questline, utilize propaganda drones in many of their maps. In fact, during a specific map, Kahl can activate these drones to lure away [[DemonicSpiders Narmer Deacons]] from his intended path.]]
207	* ''Videogame/Warhammer40000SpaceMarine'' has some in buildings that were not damaged too much by the Orks.
208	* One of the first puzzles in ''VideoGame/ZorkGrandInquisitor'' involves turning up the volume on a propaganda-spouting loudspeaker in Port Foozle to [[CacophonyCoverUp drown out the sound of a burglar alarm]].
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212	* ''Webcomic/{{Dregs}}'': Bandy often conveys orders with an intercom system set up throughout the entire sewer.
213	* ''Webcomic/SleeplessDomain'': A system of flower-shaped loudspeakers is set up across the City, which is used to announce the beginning and end of the [[FascistsBedTime nightly curfew]] and the {{Magical Girl}}s' shift.
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217	* ''Website/SCPFoundation'':
218	** In the fan film ''WebVideo/SCPOverlord'', the voice of the leader of a New Age cult can be heard as the MTF team move in to investigate the UnknownPhenomenon. The recording continues even after they've shot the cult leader concerned, much to their annoyance.
219	** [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1678 SCP-1678]] is a replica of VictorianLondon placed underneath the real London. It's intended to serve as an Apocalypse Bunker, a fact revealed from the pre-recorded propaganda message that plays whenever someone enters it. Other announcements play every hour, [[BigBrotherIsWatchingYou warning citizens to be vigilant]] about various SCP threats.
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223	* In the [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E2TheCutieMapPart2 Season 5 premiere]] of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', the Mane Six are trapped in a cell where they are exposed to a loudspeaker repeating the villain's exhortations to give up their cutie marks and special talents.
224	* The intro narration to the ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003'' episode "Same as It Never Was" consists of one of these.
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228	* For one day in October 2010, [[http://gizmodo.com/5658048/call-this-urban-speaker-tomorrow-and-broadcast-yourself-to-new-york-city a loudspeaker was set up in New York City and connected to a cell phone]], so that random people all over the world could issue their own canned orders via loudspeaker.
229	* Some villages in China had speakers installed in private homes during the Mao era for this purpose. This is reportedly ''still'' the case today in North Korea. It is hard to verify whether North Korea has propaganda loudspeakers at homes (radio and TV seem to suffice for most) but they are commonplace around cities and workplaces. Truck-mounted speakers were also reported by travelers. There was also the infamous "Propaganda Village" just north of the South Korea border, so called because there used to be loudspeakers constantly blaring propaganda about how much better it is in the North. The South Koreans retaliated by [[LoudOfWar drowning it out with cheesy pop music]] and the situation escalated until neither side could stand the racket anymore and they called a ceasefire.
230	* Transit hubs worldwide follow this trope, with pre-recorded messages in multiple languages -- usually that country's official language(s), plus English if that isn't already included -- reminding travelers not to leave luggage unattended and to report any suspicious activity to the authorities. Such announcements come in for a lot of mockery from frequent travelers, as "unattended luggage" is much more apt to be ''stolen'' long before it'll be reported.
231	* In Japan, ultra-nationalists occasionally drive around cities in vans decked out in the imperial sunburst, blaring propaganda from speakers.
232	* Some modern fire alarm systems work this way. An alarm chime sounds, followed by a pre-recorded polite message along the lines of "[[ThisIsNotADrill A fire has been reported in your area. Please evacuate immediately.]]"
233	** Done after a number of incidents where people died because they didn't know the alarm they were hearing was a fire alarm. A study done for British television showed that most department store shoppers hearing a standard fire alarm assumed it had [[BystanderSyndrome nothing to do with them]] - many thought it was a warning that a shoplifter had been caught, while for others the alarm didn't even register.
234	** In some areas, such as the [[FlyoverCountry American Midwest]], the loudspeakers won't even bother with the canned orders, but will instead blast out a deafening siren across the landscape. These typically serve a single purpose, which the local population will be familiar with. In the case of the American Midwest, that would most often be [[DoNotTouchTheFunnelCloud tornadoes]], with the siren warning the population to seek shelter immediately.
235	* Since the year 2000, this has been used in those parts of Israel that were bombarded almost daily by rockets launched from the Gaza strip. When a rocket is detected in the air, a recorded female voice comes on the loudspeaker and repeats in monotone: "Color Red. Color Red. Color Red", over and over. If you hear this, it means there's a missile heading for you. You have less than 15 seconds or so to get to the nearest shelter (if there is one), or risk being hit by the bomb or its shrapnel.
236	* Grocery stores, shopping centers and malls on occasion do something similar, whereby the PA system is used to announce sales, employment benefits or in general just tell the customer how great the store they are currently shopping in is.
237	* [[http://en.valka.cz/files/veh_uskfor_humvee.jpg There you go.]] [=PsyOps=] HMMWV: Canned orders over loudspeakers in the field. Damn things are loud, too. You'll hear one long before spotting it. Also useful for throwing parties.
238	* Some communities have electronic warning sirens that can also issue voice messages.
239	* In Ireland, announcements that smoking is illegal on buses are regular on Dublin Bus. Also, several hospitals have an oppressive loudspeaker at the door telling people not to smoke.
240	* Some cities have implemented traffic signs with prerecorded voices that tell which street is safe to cross and announce the countdown until it's not. While most only do this if the button is pressed, others are set to constantly do this around the clock.
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