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| 5 | [-[[caption-width-right:288:Iron Man armor: [[ElementalRockPaperScissors strong against fire and bludgeoning, weak to sonic kittens.]]]]-] |
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| 7 | ->''"That's Senti's voice. Very distinctive. It damages the hearing regardless of the transmission method."'' |
| 8 | -->-- '''Su''', ''VideoGame/HonkaiImpact3rd'' |
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| 10 | Usually, this trope is used for comedic effect, because it's hard to see it coming. |
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| 12 | An extremely cute and/or tiny animal turns out to have a surprisingly loud cry. A gorgeous person has a voice that is grating beyond all possible belief. It often causes fear in other characters until one sees the speaker and is amazed such a horrifying noise could come out of something so innocuous. |
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| 14 | This trope is the flipside of KillerRabbit, wherein the cute thing looks innocent, fluffy, and harmless, but is actually vicious and deadly. Note that some Cute but Cacophonic animals are ''also'' {{Killer Rabbit}}s. [[BewareTheNiceOnes Beware the Cute Ones]]. |
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| 16 | TruthInTelevision, as anyone who has ever encountered a cat who wants food knows. Also, having a surprisingly loud cry to scare the crap out of predators is a terrific defense mechanism if you are a tiny, cute animal who can't do much else. Some animals combine this with the ability to seemingly [[GameFace suddenly transform into a vicious monster]]. Either way, it isn't good for a predator's nerves. |
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| 18 | A common trait of MisterMuffykins, particularly the older, nastier versions. A CatConcerto can induce this, especially at nights. Not to be confused with NoisyNature. ''Everyone'' is louder than they need to be in Noisy Nature. |
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| 20 | In {{anime}}, this can combine with a NoblewomansLaugh for a truly fearsome effect. |
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| 22 | See also LoudOfWar. SubTrope of VocalDissonance, and often the result of NoIndoorVoice. Not to be confused with a SillyAnimalSound. If the sound rises to the level of a weapon in itself, see SuperScream. Contrast BeautifulSingingVoice. |
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| 24 | '''For RealLife examples, [[Administrivia/NoRealLifeExamplesPlease do not add people as examples of this trope.]]''' |
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| 26 | !!Examples: |
| 27 | |
| 28 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 29 | |
| 30 | [[folder:Advertising]] |
| 31 | * In the 1980s, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqyt2_vPGy0 a series of animated ads]] for Trio (a British chocolate biscuit bar) was launched, featuring a girl named Suzy who seems like a cute kid - until she opens her mouth and starts bellowing: |
| 32 | -->TRIO!\ |
| 33 | TRIIIO!\ |
| 34 | I WANT A TRIO AND I WANT ONE NOW! |
| 35 | [[/folder]] |
| 36 | [[folder:Anime & Manga]] |
| 37 | * The protagonist of ''Anime/{{Aggretsuko}}'' is a cute female red panda who sings metal songs in an angry male voice to express her rage at her annoying coworkers. |
| 38 | * Koyomi (Yomi) from ''Manga/AzumangaDaioh the Animation'' is reasonably attractive, and has an okay speaking voice, but is quite dreadfully bad at singing, as her friends discovered when she took her turn on a karaoke video game... save for Tomo, who knew, and registered alarm when she announced her intention to sing. Which is made even more hilarious by the fact that [[IronyAsSheIsCast her actress is actually quite good]], as you hear in Yomi's image songs. As if Creator/RieTanaka couldn't sing. |
| 39 | * ''Anime/LauraThePrairieGirl'': Both Laura and Carrie are small children, but Laura is a GenkiGirl who gets overly carried away with herself, and Carrie shreiks whenever she's upset. |
| 40 | * Lizzy Midford from ''Manga/BlackButler'', as well as Finny and Bardroy. |
| 41 | * ''Manga/CellsAtWork'': Red Blood Cell [=AE3803=] has a tendency to let out a horrified shriek whenever something goes wrong, whether it's being attacked by germs or getting yelled at by one of the Killer T Cells for making a wrong turn. |
| 42 | * A mild example exists in ''Anime/CodeGeass'' when it comes to [[DelicateAndSickly Nunnally's]] [[Creator/KaoriNazuka "meows".]] |
| 43 | * Mana Aida from ''Anime/DokiDokiPrecure'' can and does do a lot of amazing things, but singing is not one of them, no matter how much or loudly she tries. |
| 44 | * ''Manga/DragonGoesHouseHunting'': Pip is an adorable baby bird, but he's capable of letting out a cry so strong it causes grown men to faint. Unlike most examples of this trope, he typically only uses this ability deliberately. |
| 45 | * [[Creator/KotonoMitsuishi Excel Excel]] from ''Anime/ExcelSaga'' fits this to a T, so much so that it caused English VA Creator/JessicaCalvello to blow out her vocal cords halfway through the series. The Japanese Excel isn't quite so bad, but Calvello apparently thought "sandpaper on chalkboard" was the right direction to take things, which had the aforementioned effect on her larynx. |
| 46 | * Ryuuko from ''Literature/GroundControlToPsychoelectricGirl'' is a teenage GenkiGirl complete with CuteLittleFang. Just don't let her cheer you on unless she's a good ten or twenty feet away. |
| 47 | * Aoi from ''Manga/HanamaruKindergarten's'' Sakura class has watched her fishmonger parents at work for long enough that she can do quite the sales shout herself. |
| 48 | * [[FormallyNamedPet Mr. Puffin]], [[IJustWantToBeNormal Iceland's]] [[VitriolicBestBuds friend]] and constant [[NonHumanSidekick companion]] from ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers,'' both [[PollyWantsAMicrophone speaks and acts roughly]] despite his very cute appearance. It's most evident in his attempts at hijacking Iceland's character song, ''With Love, From Iceland.'' |
| 49 | %%* Tsubasa from ''Manga/HisAndHerCircumstances'' -- or, at least Creator/MayumiShintani's version. |
| 50 | * In ''Toys/{{Jewelpet}}'', Labra is a cute little baby polar bear who ordinarily isn't grating levels of loud. If she's sad, however, she produces a massively loud cry that can destroy buildings and other nearby physical objects. |
| 51 | * Nonon Jakuzure from ''Anime/KillLaKill'' is a cute pink-haired girl whose voice is an interesting mix of rasp, growl, and squeak, tending towards the former two when she's angry. |
| 52 | * Tokino from the ''Anime/KujibikiUnbalance'' OVA is a blonde {{Kawaiiko}} who has a singing voice [[https://youtu.be/Gnri1Wp5sOc like an angel]]... ''of the apocalypse''. |
| 53 | * ''Manga/LuckyStar''[='=]s Konata speaks in a manner (both endearing and irritating in equal measure) befitting her character, but her... unorthodox [[https://youtu.be/F9TWgO0iTHg interpretation]] of the ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' theme can [[DreadfulMusician sour milk at five paces]] and will have you reaching for the ear bleach. Her [[Creator/AyaHirano voice actress]] is quite the accomplished vocalist and sang both [[AwesomeMusic/{{Anime}} insert songs]] featured in ''Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya''. Incidentally, some fans just ''adore'' this version because of the exact same reason. [[JustForFun/OneOfUs Konata incarnates the soul of a true amateur karaoke singer]]. |
| 54 | * ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaStrikers'' has cute, adorable CheerfulChild [[Creator/KaoriMizuhashi Vivio]], who moments after being faced with the prospect of Nanoha leaving for a few hours to go to work, cried like a, well... cried like a real six-year-old actually, which as anyone who had lived with one will tell you, isn't exactly the most pleasant sounding of things. |
| 55 | * The title giant beast from ''Anime/MyNeighborTotoro'' is cute, but has a loud bellow some children find frightening. |
| 56 | * Creator/FourKidsEntertainment’s Anime/OjamajoDoremi dub is known for its terrible voice acting, but Pop Harukaze/Caitlyn Goodwyn's voice is quite a migraine to the ears, even when compared to the main characters. |
| 57 | * ''Manga/OnePiece'': |
| 58 | ** Although a filler character, Kobato is a cute young woman with an ear-piercingly loud scream. |
| 59 | ** Also [[CuteGhostGirl Perona's]] personal pet peeve. She adores all her [[NightmareFetishist macabre]] living stuffed animals (which she calls "cute"), but hates their monstrous voices and forbids them from talking. The cuter they are the less they're allowed to talk, such as her favorite companion, a man-sized stuffed bear named Kumashi. Ironically, for that matter, Perona herself is a pretty cute young [[OlderThanTheyLook woman]], but her voice can get pretty loud and high-pitched. |
| 60 | ** Shirahoshi always has a very shrill cry, despite her arguably cute voice. |
| 61 | * ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'': |
| 62 | ** In ''Anime/PokemonTheOriginalSeries'', Misty's Togepi had an annoying cry when upset, notably in the mini-movie ''Pikachu's Vacation'' and even "All Fired Up". |
| 63 | ** Marill lets out an ear-shattering cry when scared, in ''For Cryin' Out Loud!''. To make matters worse, ''this'' particular Marill (an especially shy and [[ProneToTears easy-to-scare crybaby]]) is paired with Misty; she's driven crazy by the loud and incessant crying, and flips out on the poor thing, freaking it out ''again''. |
| 64 | ** Ash's Larvitar also has an ear-piercing cry. |
| 65 | ** In ''The Ancient Puzzle of Pokémopolis'', the day is saved by a gigantic Jigglypuff (with an EXTREMELY deep voice) singing the two battling giant Pokémon to sleep. |
| 66 | ** In ''Anime/PokemonRangerAndTheTempleOfTheSea'', Manaphy, no doubt, has a really shrill voice and cry, including the scene where it threw a tantrum over May's absence before it uses [[FreakyFridayFlip Heart Swap]] on Ash and Jackie. |
| 67 | ** Nebby from ''Anime/PokemonTheSeriesSunAndMoon'' has an almost supersonic cry. |
| 68 | ** Casey is an energetic, cute young girl [[FanGirl who adores the Electabuzz baseball team]], and the best way to show her love for her favorite team is to sing their victory songs in her shrill and loud voice. Ash and the gang always watch in embarrassment as she loudly sings the Electabuzz fight songs, and at one point Misty actually had to stop her because her singing was so bad. |
| 69 | * In Chapter 53 of ''Manga/PokemonAdventures'', when Ratty evolves into Raticate, a very distressed Yellow starts bawling at a volume that greatly startles Blue and said Raticate, eventually tiring herself out and falling asleep. |
| 70 | %%* C-Ko of ''Anime/ProjectAKo''. |
| 71 | * Like Excel above, Poemi Watanabe of ''Anime/PuniPuniPoemi'' is very screechy and motormouthed, so much so that it caused her English VA to blow out her vocal cords on the first day of recording. |
| 72 | * ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'': [[Creator/SaekoShimazu Kodachi Kuno]] technically has a NoblewomansLaugh, but the shrill edge she has to it in the anime (particularly the first season) is so bad that it gives her an honorary placement here, even though many fans think she's not particularly cute. She gets better (well, less cacophonic) as the seasons pass, though. |
| 73 | * ''Anime/SailorMoon''[='=]s [[Creator/KotonoMitsuishi Usagi]] and [[Creator/KaeAraki Chibi-Usa]] manage to ''stun a monster'' with their screams -- and Usagi has it '''as a weapon''' in the SNES fighting games. The game usage is probably a MythologyGag, referencing her first fight as Sailor Moon, in which Usagi actually manages to stun a youma and its mind-controlled horde of drained humans with her ''crying.'' |
| 74 | ** It is said that, when they (Moon and Chibimoon) are transformed, their screams are amplified by the red hairclips they have on their odango and turned into supersonic waves, which is how they manage to cause so much damage. However, it does require a cry loud enough to activate this "weapon", apparently. |
| 75 | * Meru Otonashi from ''Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei'' appears to be an extremely shy girl who is practically mute and can only communicate with others via e-mails and cellphone texting. When she does send messages to others online, she turns out to be [[{{Troll}} insulting and abusive]]. Eventually, Meru is forced into a part of the classroom with no cellphone reception and when Kaere forces her to talk, the [[BlackSpeech result is]]... [[https://youtu.be/iSSxCLuTCD8 not pretty.]] |
| 76 | * Reiko from ''Literature/ShominSample'' may be TheOjou when speaking, but never, ever let her sing. |
| 77 | * ''Literature/{{Slayers}}'': |
| 78 | ** Naga the Serpent has shrill tones, loud enough that it sounds like she's screaming more than she's laughing, and obnoxious as all hell. What's more, [[Creator/MariaKawamura Naga]] is such a stuck-up, egotistical {{Cloudcuckoolander}} that she's convinced that her laugh is a thing of wonder and beauty, growing quite offended at those who voice their disgust with it and mocking those who can't laugh like her. |
| 79 | *** In one episode she gets cloned off about ten times. When faced with her giggling doppelgangers she calmly takes in what she's seeing for a moment before declaring them self-evident shams. Although the laugh sounds identical to the originals to our untrained ears, Naga critiques everything wrong with ''their'' laugh -- whereupon they immediately attach themselves to her. Now, imagine Naga amplified by about eleven times. Even the guy who created the clones for his nefarious purposes is horrified. Just for fun, it's hard to catch since Naga Prime and her knockoffs are laughing the whole time, the scene where they come charging to the castle to rescue Lina is underscored by a OneWomanWail which makes it ridiculous, yet somehow still manages to communicate the utter horror of eleven of ''that woman'' coming to ''laugh'' at you. |
| 80 | *** In one episode she pimp-slaps a stuck-up noble girl, who instantly becomes her submissive servant (bringing with her the equally masochistic bandit chief and sorcerer whom she "enthralled" in the exact same manner) and proceeds to teach ''both'' of them how to laugh exactly like her, leading to a scene where the three of them are laughing into the sunset. The horrified Lina promptly envisions a scene of dozens of people, young, old, women, and men, all wearing Naga's outfit (including a geriatric old guy, a fat woman, and a burly man) and all voicing their own equivalent of Naga's laugh. |
| 81 | ** Lina Inverse is pretty in a petite sort of way, but her temper is so hair-trigger that sometimes people are surprised she even ''has'' a normal tone of voice. |
| 82 | * The mayor's son in ''Anime/TigerAndBunny''. Cute little baby, who cries loudly when left to be looked after by a group of rather clueless heroes (Kotetsu ''is'' a dad, but Sam wants his mummy ''and'' Kotetsu's child is a preteen so he hasn't taken care of babies in a while). Said baby is also [[MindOverMatter telekinetic]], so his screaming causes things to go flying. |
| 83 | * Never upset [[Creator/YuiHorie Maria Ushiromiya]] from ''VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry''. If you do, you will quickly understand why Rosa has a short fuse. |
| 84 | [[/folder]] |
| 85 | |
| 86 | [[folder:Asian Animation]] |
| 87 | * ''Animation/NoonboryAndTheSuper7'': Kikibory, Lukybory's little sister, actually has this as a superpower. It's best to cover your ears when she does her sonic screech... |
| 88 | * ''Sheriff Biscuit'': The Queen has a very high pitched voice, and is capable of screaming ''incredibly'' loudly. |
| 89 | [[/folder]] |
| 90 | |
| 91 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 92 | * ''ComicBook/BlackCanary'', a blonde with [[SuperScream her own hypersonic scream]]. |
| 93 | * Schecherazade, a small pet bird in Ralf König's ''Conrad and Paul'', is taken for pet-sitting to the title character's home. She's very precious, but whenever she opens her beak, the "chirp" fills most of the page section. Trust it to her to completely kill any and all sex life going on in that apartment. Probably in the neighbouring flats too. |
| 94 | * In ''ComicBook/MarvelAdventures: Super Heroes'', being thrown into the "Kitten Cacophony" pit is ComicBook/IronMan's CoolAndUnusualPunishment for failing Kree Karaoke in an extreme sports contest. (Yes, really. We've got the picture up there to prove it.) For several panels after that, he is deaf. |
| 95 | -->'''Iron Man:''' [[RunningGag WHAT?]] |
| 96 | * ''Comicbook/XMen'' character Syren is a gorgeous redhead with [[SuperScream screaming powers]]. |
| 97 | |
| 98 | [[/folder]] |
| 99 | |
| 100 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 101 | * In ''Ghosts of the Past'', sequel to ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'', this becomes a RunningGag - ComicBook/JeanGrey, teenage, already growing into a stunning beauty, tends to get ''extremely'' loud when particularly emotional (usually, when she's annoyed). This consistently leaves whoever's unfortunate enough to be nearby with a persistent ringing noise in their ears. |
| 102 | * ''Fanfic/MaFille'': As an infant, Katrina was a loud crier, and once kept Joe up all night while she was teething. |
| 103 | [[/folder]] |
| 104 | |
| 105 | [[folder:Films -- Animation]] |
| 106 | * The Soviet/Russian 1972–1995 animated series ''The Adventures of Baron Munchausen'' has it in ''The Peacock'' episode. The whole plot kicks off because Munchausen wants to listen to the song of the peacock. When he does hear what it sounds like, he faints (TruthInTelevision –- see the RealLife section on peacocks). |
| 107 | * The baby raccoon in ''WesternAnimation/BrotherBear2'' lets out a piercing scream of "MAMA!" after Nita gets her amulet back from it. |
| 108 | * Darla Dimple from ''WesternAnimation/CatsDontDance'' is cute (and is a visual AffectionateParody of Shirley Temple), but has a harsh, grating voice. This may be a reference to the villainess in ''Film/SinginInTheRain'', as there are several other [[{{Homage}} homages]] to classic musicals in the movie. |
| 109 | * ''WesternAnimation/GlistenAndTheMerryMission'': Marzipan is a precious child, but Grizz feels the need to often tell her that she is quite noisy. [[spoiler:She soon takes advantage of this to start an avalanche against the wolves.]] |
| 110 | * "Vanessa"/Ursula from Disney's ''WesternAnimation/{{The Little Mermaid|1989}}'' once she loses possession of Ariel's voice. |
| 111 | * Baby Lickity-Split from ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTheMovie1986'', supposedly. |
| 112 | * The film ''WesternAnimation/{{Up}}'' has Kevin on this. She sounds like something awful's happening to a parrot. |
| 113 | [[/folder]] |
| 114 | |
| 115 | [[folder:Films -- Live-Action]] |
| 116 | %%* Creator/KathyIreland, particularly in ''Film/AlienFromLA.'' |
| 117 | * Subverted slightly in ''Theatre/BornYesterday''. Judy Holliday is a crooked tycoon's trophy mistress with a voice that can peel paint. She ends up [[spoiler:educated by a tutor hired to "smarten her up." She uses her newfound smarts to take the tycoon to the cleaners]] and amazingly, even though it's still in the same register, by the end of the movie her voice isn't as near as annoying as it was in the beginning (Holliday got the Best Actress Oscar that year). |
| 118 | * Creator/ClaraBow, the It Girl, was considered the sexiest woman in film. According to urban legend, her career died when sound film came into popularity. In reality, her voice work was considered decent, and her sound films were popular. It was a nervous breakdown from mental illness and a bad reputation with Hollywood insiders that killed her career. |
| 119 | * ''Film/GalaxyQuest'': |
| 120 | ** The little "Psycho Teletubby" creatures on the alien planet. They also fit the KillerRabbit trope, as they turn out to be noisy ''and'' vicious. |
| 121 | ** When the female Thermian Laliari is first introduced, her translator is broken but her humanoid disguise is otherwise still active. Suffice it to say, since they are [[StarfishAliens based on undersea animals]], the Thermians' native language is... ''screechy''. |
| 122 | * Gizmo from ''Film/{{Gremlins}}'' may be a RidiculouslyCuteCritter, but his screaming is like nails on a chalkboard. |
| 123 | * In ''Film/GrownUps'', the wives spend at the entire water park visit trying to get an extremely sexy lifeguard to walk their way. And then they find he's from Canada, eh? |
| 124 | * Eve Draper from ''Film/HotFuzz'' is your run-of-the-mill cute blond but has a 'very distinctive laugh'. Only natural as she is played by Lucy Punch, who tends to go for those types of characters anyway. |
| 125 | * ''Film/TheIncredibleMrLimpet'' is about a guy who gets turned into an UglyCute cartoon fish who can produce a "whale buster" strong enough to fight enemy submarines. |
| 126 | * ''Film/JamesBond'' girls had a tendency to be like this towards the late '80s, the most notable example being Stacey Sutton played by Tanya Roberts (''Film/AViewToAKill''), followed by Kara Milovy played by Maryam d'Abo (''Film/TheLivingDaylights''). |
| 127 | * The hooker from ''Film/TheManWithTwoBrains''. Gorgeous body, but her voice makes it all too easy to contemplate murdering her. |
| 128 | -->"Duke Duke Duke Duke of Oyul, Oyul, Oyul..." |
| 129 | * The Desi Arnaz Jr. movie ''Marco'' had a mysterious, silent princess to whom Marco Polo was attracted... until they had a rendezvous, she opened her mouth... and had a screechy voice that shattered all his illusions. |
| 130 | * When ''Film/TheMask'' is startled by an impatient motorist whaling on his car horn, he retaliates with a small bike horn... loud enough to blow out all the windows of Mr. Impatient's car. |
| 131 | --> '''''AH-WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO-GAH!!!!!''''' ''[[[SmokingBarrelBlowout blows]]]'' |
| 132 | * Officer Hooks from the ''Film/PoliceAcademy'' films has a light, soft, and very pleasant voice when she isn't angry. When she is angry, she terrifies even Hightower, the 8-foot cadet. Doesn't help that she also trends towards SuddenlyShouting, meaning people often get caught off-guard. |
| 133 | * In the 2005 version of ''Film/TheProducers'', CampGay director Roger [=deBris=] (played by Gary Beach) speaks in a light, cultivated voice most of the time. Until he summons his production team to meet Leo and Max, when he bellows like a longshoreman, losing his posh accent in the process. |
| 134 | * Lina Lamont from ''Film/SinginInTheRain''. "... An' I CEAAAAAAN'T STEEEEEEAND 'im!" This is a major plot point since she's a movie star at the time when sound films come into the mainstream. |
| 135 | ** Her actress, Jean Hagan, was actually a talented vocalist, as heard in scenes where Lina's spoken dialogue is being dubbed over to sound less shrill. |
| 136 | * Madison from ''Film/{{Splash}}''. While she normally sounds fine, when she tries to speak her name in her native language (she's a mermaid) she ends up shattering the screens of all nearby televisions. |
| 137 | * ''Franchise/StarWars'': |
| 138 | ** R2-D2 is a TinCanRobot who communicates in beeps and whistles most of the time, but will let loose with a shrill scream when distressed. |
| 139 | ** When Luke Skywalker enters the Dark Cave in ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'' a fairly loud roar is implied to emanate from a small lizard. |
| 140 | * During the filming of ''Film/WarOfTheWorlds2005'', Creator/DakotaFanning's scream when she sees the alien probe reportedly forced several sound technicians to rip off their headphones. |
| 141 | %%* Strangely, [[http://youtu.be/SD5i7-iPaYE the title character as a child]] from ''Film/WhateverHappenedToBabyJane''. |
| 142 | [[/folder]] |
| 143 | |
| 144 | [[folder:Gamebooks]] |
| 145 | * ''Literature/FightingFantasy'': The Jib-Jib is basically a ball of fluff the size of a cabbage that runs around on two cute little feet. It also has a shriek that can be heard over a mile away and its default reaction when frightened is to start screaming, in hopes that either this will frighten away whatever threatens it or that an even bigger nasty will show up to eat whoever set off the Jib-Jib. |
| 146 | [[/folder]] |
| 147 | |
| 148 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 149 | * This is one of the defining traits of [[OneOfTheBoys Ruth Rose]] in the ''Literature/AToZMysteries'' books. On the surface, she's a sweet, ten-year-old girl who loves to wear outfits and accessories of one color. But when she's loud, she is ''loud.'' In ''The Bald Bandit'', she even weaponizes this trope -- when the titular villain (who's a six-foot-plus, muscular man) tries to take her hostage, she unleashes a scream so loud that it makes him (and everyone else in the room) physically recoil. |
| 150 | * In the Creator/DrSeuss story ''[[Literature/TheCatInTheHat The Cat In The Hat Comes Back]]'', the cat gets rid of a ring of pink cake icing in the tub by doffing his hat to reveal a smaller Cat A, who does the same for Cat B, on and on, who only spread the ring around and turn all the snow in the neighborhood pink -- until Cat Z is revealed...he's microscopic in size, but under ''his'' hat is something called VOOM, which loudly cleans the mess up. |
| 151 | %%* The title creature from the Creator/DickKingSmith story ''The Guard Dog''. |
| 152 | * ''Franchise/HarryPotter'': |
| 153 | ** The merpeople sound like these above the water. They can hardly be described as "cute", though. |
| 154 | ** ''Literature/HarryPotter'' has a lot of creatures like this in ''Literature/FantasticBeastsAndWhereToFindThem.'' For example, there's the Fwooper, a colorful bird whose call makes listeners [[BrownNote go insane]], and the Aughrey, another bird whose call is rumored to be the last thing you hear before you die (in truth, they just react to impending foul weather). One wizard, [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Uric the Oddball]], decided to experiment by living in an aviary full of ''both'' birds, and thought he had died the morning the Aughrey were all crying. He then preceded to knock himself out cold by walking into a wall because he thought he was a ghost, and suffered "a concussion of ten days' duration." |
| 155 | * In ''Literature/TheHobbit'', Bilbo gives out a warning cry "which is surprisingly loud for a creature of their size." |
| 156 | * From the ''Literature/JeevesAndWooster'' story "Clustering Round Young Bingo", wherein Bertie breaks into Bingo Little's house and encounters [[MisterMuffykins a Pekingese dog]]: |
| 157 | --> It was a small dog--the sort of animal from which you would have expected a noise like a squeaking slate-pencil; but it was simply baying. It had retired into a corner, and was leaning against the wall with bulging eyes; and every two seconds it chucked its head back in a kind of pained way and let out another terrific bellow. |
| 158 | * Christine in ''[[Literature/{{Discworld}} Maskerade]]''. She's pretty. She's rich. And when she sings, [[DreadfulMusician the universe cringes in horror.]] |
| 159 | * In the Literature/NeroWolfe novel ''Might as Well Be Dead'', Archie describes a suspect like this: "It was hard to believe, the contrast between what my eyes saw and my ears heard. Any man would have been glad to walk down a theater aisle with her, but there would have to be an understanding that she would keep her mouth shut." She also drank [[DrinkBasedCharacterization gin and ginger ale]], which Archie insists he "wouldn't drink to get the low-down on Lizzie Borden." |
| 160 | * In ''Literature/{{Mirabile}}'', Leo raises an alien "bird" from the egg, and names it Mabob (short for "Thingamabob"). It's UglyCute but equipped with a hundred-decibel inbuilt airhorn. '''''GRONK!''''' |
| 161 | * Subverted in ''[[Literature/LandOfOz The Patchwork Girl of Oz]]''. The Woozy claims to be one of these, but when put to the test, has only a very small roar indeed. |
| 162 | * ''Literature/{{Redwall}}'' |
| 163 | ** Dorothea Duckfontein Dillworthy (or Dotti for short) from ''Lord Brocktree'' is a very sweet and pretty hare-girl who just happens to have the worst singing voice ever. Nobody has the heart to tell her. |
| 164 | ** Rosie from ''Mariel of Redwall'' and ''The Bellmaker'' (both of which were published before ''Lord Brocktree'', but take place later chronologically) is another cute female hare whose singing leaves a lot to be desired. She also has a very loud laugh which she likes to let rip at every opportunity. |
| 165 | * This is applied to an entire sentient species in Creator/AlanDeanFoster's ''Taken'' trilogy -- they're basically {{Cat Girl}}s ([[DudeLooksLikeALady even the guys]]) but have voices comparable to garbage disposals. In this case, symbolism rules, as they're initially quite charming [[CuteMonsterGirl and cute]], but they're a ProudWarriorRace and their sanity is somewhat dubious. |
| 166 | * In ''Literature/WatershipDown'', Fiver, one of the smallest of the rabbits, falls into a psychic-coma during the climax. As he loses consciousness, he lets out such a terrible, alien sound it penetrates the burrow and scares the [[AnimalTalk hraka]] out of the invading rabbits outside. Given what rabbit cries typically sound like (See RealLife, below) that says a lot. |
| 167 | [[/folder]] |
| 168 | |
| 169 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 170 | %%* Cordelia on ''Series/{{Angel}}''. |
| 171 | * Milked for laughs on numerous occasions on ''Series/AreYouBeingServed'', with the grating Cockney-accented voice of the otherwise pretty Miss Brahms. |
| 172 | * Bernadette on ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'', who has a pipsqueaky voice befitting of her tiny stature talking normally, but is a dead-ringer for Howard's screechy mom when she yells. |
| 173 | -->'''Someone off-screen''': WHO IS IT?! |
| 174 | -->'''Sheldon''': It's me, Sheldon, Mrs. Wolowitz! |
| 175 | -->'''Howard''': That's not my mom, it's Bernadette. |
| 176 | -->'''Sheldon''': Really? That's very unsettling. |
| 177 | * In ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' and ''Series/{{Angel}}'', no-one played by Creator/MercedesMcNab could be ugly, but Harmony's name is thoroughly inaccurate. At one point Lorne [[LampshadeHanging nicknames her "Cacophony"]]. |
| 178 | * ''Series/DoctorWho'' |
| 179 | ** Sixties companion Victoria Waterfield has a notoriously powerful scream. In one episode, she, the Doctor and Jamie are on an oil rig being attacked by killer seaweed, so the Doctor hooks a microphone up to a sonic gun and has Victoria scream into it. This kills the seaweed. |
| 180 | ** Equally high-pitched, but never weaponized, was Mel's scream. At the end of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS23E3TerrorOfTheVervoids "Terror of the Vervoids"]] part 1 [[https://youtu.be/kVW6u2bpl88?t=215 her scream was timed]] to segue into the closing credits' opening sound effect-- and Bonnie Langford could match its pitch. |
| 181 | ** The Chimeron princess from "Delta and the Bannermen" has the ability to produce a shrill warning cry to which the Bannermen ([[MonsterOfTheWeek the story's antagonists]]) seem particularly sensitive. The Doctor exploits this by using some sound equipment to amplify her cry, leading to the defeat of the Bannermen. |
| 182 | ** Donna was also known for screeching when annoyed (she was played by Catherine Tate, after all), though she did it less as her CharacterDevelopment continued. Even the Doctor would lean away from her, wincing, when she got going. |
| 183 | ** Tallulah from "Daleks in Manhattan" and "Evolution of the Daleks" is an attractive woman, but her voice could peel paint. |
| 184 | * ''Series/DrKen'': Julie has a comedically high-pitched voice that gets even higher when she lies. But if the lie gets too big, her voice comes around the other side and drops an octave to a more normal pitch (aka Katie Simses's real voice). |
| 185 | * Jool from ''Series/{{Farscape}}'' has a scream that can literally melt metal. This is often used to amazing effect by other characters. |
| 186 | * Janice from ''Series/{{Friends}}'' was very attractive, but had an annoyingly nasal voice. |
| 187 | ** Not to mention her laugh... |
| 188 | ** Or when she experiences labor pains... |
| 189 | * On ''Series/GrowingPains'' Mike sees an extremely hot girl at a school dance. When he talks to her, he's alarmed at her annoying high and squeaky voice, on top of not being very bright. Mike tries to put up with it because she's so gorgeous but finally can't take it after a while. |
| 190 | * This was common on Creator/AnimalPlanet's ''Series/ItsMeOrTheDog'' and something that dog-trainer Victoria Stilwell often had to help dog owners deal with. |
| 191 | * ''Series/ModernFamily'': Gloria, Jay's beautiful young wife, can get both screechy and condescending at times. Jay finally admits this in the episode where he is forced to admit he is losing his hearing -- while Gloria is forced to admit her sight is failing. After some friction, they decide it's better this way. |
| 192 | -->'''Jay:''' I won't be able to hear her. She won't be able to see me. We'll be together forever. |
| 193 | * ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'': Back when [[TeamMom Gypsy]] was played by Jim Mallon in most of the original series, She speaks with an [[LarynxDissonance incredibly grating and jarring falsetto voice]] that could easily give [[VideoGame/WiiParty Wii Party's Party Phil]] a run for the money. |
| 194 | * Creator/FranDrescher's voice in ''Series/TheNanny''. Or anywhere else, for that matter. She engages in a little SelfDeprecation in her guest appearance on a ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' Halloween special where she played a golem who, upon hearing her own voice, describes it as "like a cat got caught in a blender". "Hello," indeed. |
| 195 | ** She also played with it in a scene in "Val's Boyfriend", where [[http://youtu.be/1DJ8B1ek_L0 Fran Fine overdosed on wasabi at a Japanese restaurant and her voice changed]] to a much sultrier voice -- for a few seconds, anyway. |
| 196 | * ''{{Franchise/Power Rangers}}'' had [[{{Large Ham}} Rita Repulsa]], who was played by a cute actress but spoke with a very obnoxious and screechy dubbed voice. |
| 197 | * Kate from ''Series/RobinHood'' delivers her lines in a shrill, whiny, screechy voice. This may have been done to make her as annoying as humanly possible since the actress speaks normally in other roles. |
| 198 | * ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' alumna Victoria Jackson is also known for being cute with a girlish, high-pitched voice that sounds whiny and irritating. Other female ''SNL'' cast members like this include: Rachel Dratch, Creator/AbbyElliott (especially when she plays Anna Faris, Joan Cusack, and Khloe Kardashian), Nasim Pedrad (especially when she plays Creator/KimKardashian), and the late Creator/GildaRadner (often when she played little girl characters, like Judy Miller). |
| 199 | * Kelly Kapowski of ''Series/SavedByTheBell'' was pretty and had a pleasant speaking voice, but when she ''sang''... |
| 200 | * ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'' has Josephina, an "incredibly [[FunSize fun-sized]] intern", (roughly 4'10") who is infamous around the hospital for having an impossibly high-pitched voice. |
| 201 | ** [[http://youtu.be/PEliTwhqtHw?t=42s STOP FINISHING MY AWESOME JOKES]] (of note: Creator/ZachBraff's "Oh my God!" in response [[ThrowItIn was not scripted]]). |
| 202 | * ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'': |
| 203 | ** Elaine hires Newman to kidnap a dog that has been barking loudly all night every night and keeping her awake. When she finally sees it in person, she is surprised to discover how small it is. |
| 204 | ** Jerry's girlfriend Naomi from season 4. She is physically attractive but, in the words of George Costanza, "has a laugh like [[WesternAnimation/ElmerFudd Elmer Fudd]] sitting on a juicer". |
| 205 | * The Tribbles from ''Franchise/StarTrek'': ridiculously cute, but if you introduce them to Klingons, they make an unholy racket. [[BaitAndSwitchComparison And so do the Tribbles]]. |
| 206 | * Jackie Burkhart on ''Series/That70sShow'' is played by the gorgeous Creator/MilaKunis, but has a voice that will set your teeth on edge, especially when she's annoyed. Which is often. She once describes herself as "a beautiful girl with a shrill, demanding voice". |
| 207 | ** When Jackie started dating Hyde, Eric didn't understand the attraction. Hyde told Eric to imagine her with her voice on mute. That was the first time Eric realized "She is hot!" |
| 208 | * One episode of ''Series/{{Unfabulous}}'' had the main character attempt to babysit a little girl. The girl's favorite pastime was to apparently run around the house screaming at the top of her lungs. |
| 209 | * In ''Series/WillAndGrace'', Karen (Megan Mulally) is physically painful. Her voice was relatively normal in the first few episodes, before {{Flanderization}} turned Karen from a DeadpanSnarker into the most outlandish character on the show. |
| 210 | %%* Scully on ''Series/TheXFiles''. |
| 211 | [[/folder]] |
| 212 | |
| 213 | [[folder:Music]] |
| 214 | * Music/{{Aerosmith}} lead singer and ''Series/AmericanIdol'' judge Steven Tyler -- frequently adorable (or at least UglyCute). Frequently loud. Also demonstrates an [[GenkiGuy inability to sit still for more than five seconds]] when he's excited. |
| 215 | %%* Music/{{Bjork}}. Holy hell, the woman can ''yowl''. |
| 216 | * Music/EmilieAutumn deliberately invokes this when singing raspily as part of her asylum inmate shtick. |
| 217 | * Music/{{Eminem}}, circa 1999, had a PrettyBoy appearance and boyish mannerisms that more resembled the [[TeenPop mass-manufactured boyband stars]] of the age than the other popular TurnOfTheMillennium rappers, and many interviewers remarked on how, when speaking out-of-character, his voice is unexpectedly soft and pleasant. The reason this was surprising is because his ''rapping'' voice was an obnoxious [[NerdyNasalness high-pitched, nasal squeak]], even leaving aside the [[ShockRock obscene]] and [[GrossoutShow revolting]] things he'd use that voice to describe. While he toned down the squeaking on his later albums, he had fun inventing new ways for his voice to grate, such as experimenting with MetalScream-influenced techniques, singing out-of-tune with no pitch correction, and (a decade later) dabbling with ironic AutoTune. His bio for his Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame induction described his voice as "somehow guttural and nasal simultaneously". |
| 218 | * [[Music/RushBand Geddy Lee.]] [[http://www4.pictures.zimbio.com/gi/Geddy+Lee+Arrivals+Rock+Roll+Induction+Ceremony+FC8f8-O7fN4l.jpg Pretty freakin' adorable]] or at least UglyCute. And then he makes [[https://youtu.be/f5jjHPYibgE noises like this]]. Yowza. |
| 219 | * Music/HelloProject: |
| 220 | ** Former member Yaguchi Mari; she's only 4'8'' or so tall with big brown eyes and a generally sweet disposition. She's also HotBlooded and tends to have NoIndoorVoice when she does get riled up, which is [[BerserkButton not difficult at times]]. |
| 221 | ** Her former bandmate Takahashi Ai fits the other side of the trope; her scream is much lower than what you'd expect from a woman of her size. |
| 222 | * Music/JanisJoplin. On the iconic cover of the Big Brother and the Holding Company album, ''Music/CheapThrills'', there's a panel depicting Janis screaming into a microphone, with the speech bubble saying, "Janis Joplin: Vocal", and then a smaller one saying, "And how!" |
| 223 | * Japanese musician, Music/{{Kana}} (or MOON Kana she is now called) is actually very cute but seems to be aiming at this trope ''too'' hard. If not in her [[https://youtu.be/Td7VXWRPhjc punk or rock image using her screechy vocals]], she'll be an [[UncannyValleyGirl uncanny]] GenkiGirl who sings songs about moons, cats, bunnies, fruits, dragons, or anything, all with a nasally small, sometimes tone-deaf, voice. [[https://youtu.be/iYmIEg4Zl5A Tries to talk like one, too.]] |
| 224 | * At an early Music/LedZeppelin show, the sound system broke down, but they kept playing anyway, and legend has it even the ''back row'' could hear Robert Plant's voice perfectly. |
| 225 | * R&B singer [[http://www.vh1.com/artists/az/michel_le/bio.jhtml Michel'le]] is known for the vast difference between [[https://youtu.be/1IvtYAp7rVY her sultry singing voice and her cartoonishly high-pitched speaking voice]]. |
| 226 | %%* Music/RebeccaBlack, as seen in the "Friday" music video. |
| 227 | * Seiko Oomori dresses like a typical IdolSinger, but her music sounds like, as she puts it, "Disneyland from hell." For instance, her single, ''[[https://youtu.be/1qlEeVS2vMU Kyuru Kyuru]]''. |
| 228 | [[/folder]] |
| 229 | |
| 230 | [[folder:Podcasts]] |
| 231 | * In the ''Podcast/CoolKidsTable'' ''Franchise/HarryPotter''-themed game ''Hogwarts: The New Class'', Jake's pet gryphon Jomps is always screeching (which means so is DM Alan), much to everyone's chagrin except (sometimes) Jake's. |
| 232 | * ''Podcast/MyFavoriteMurder'' has Georgia's cat Elvis. |
| 233 | -->'''Georgia:''' Elvis, want a cookie?\ |
| 234 | '''Elvis:''' ''*yowls*'' |
| 235 | [[/folder]] |
| 236 | |
| 237 | [[folder:Pro Wrestling]] |
| 238 | * The Beautiful Brenda, Famous B's valet on Wrestling/LuchaUnderground, is certainly very attractive (if [[DumbBlonde not very bright]]) but she has a voice that can strip the paint off the walls when she gets excited. |
| 239 | %%* Cherry Bomb |
| 240 | %%-->Amber Gertner: "I wish the collar bone injury had done something to the screechy voice, just saying." |
| 241 | * Wrestling/{{Francine}}. Promoted in the original Wrestling/{{ECW}} as both a fearless DarkActionGirl and as MsFanservice. Her voice, however, was an acquired taste. |
| 242 | * Nothing Jetta does turns crowds against her more than the squealing she makes when a match doesn't go her way. |
| 243 | * Wrestling model Kaci Lennox usually gains heat by screaching at her [[IneffectualSympatheticVillain often battered]] TagTeam partner Derby Doll Layne Rosario. |
| 244 | * This is a popular opinion of Wrestling/{{TNA}}'s locker room reporter Leticia Cline. [[Wrestling/TheWrestlingObserverNewsletter Vinny]] suggested she apply to be a Wrestling/{{CMLL}} ring girl, [[MsFanservice play more to her strengths.]] |
| 245 | * Salina de la Renta has a fairly deep, soothing voice that she uses to get what she wants. Should it fail, brace yourself for her screeching tag team partner Aria Blake. |
| 246 | [[/folder]] |
| 247 | |
| 248 | [[folder:Puppet Shows]] |
| 249 | * ''Film/TheDarkCrystal'' has Kira's pet [[https://youtu.be/M1FCqDJMWgYb Fizzgig.]] |
| 250 | * In ''Series/ThePuzzlePlace'', Julie's obnoxious loud singing is a RunningGag. When the whole gang sings songs together, her singing is perfectly fine, but when she tries to show off her voice it becomes this trope. |
| 251 | * ''Series/SesameStreet'' has Merry Monster, who usually speaks with a very meek-sounding voice, but has a roar that would give [[WesternAnimation/TheLionGuard Kion]] a run for the money. |
| 252 | ** Since Season 28, Kevin Clash's falsetto as Elmo becomes a bit too jarring for parents, His laughter went from tolerable and cute to the annoying laughter everyone knows today. However, this is justified that Elmo is only a 3-year old kid. |
| 253 | [[/folder]] |
| 254 | |
| 255 | [[folder:Tabletop Games]] |
| 256 | * Old concept dating back to at least Red-book ''[[TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons D&D basic]]'' edition. Shriekers are harmless-looking giant mushrooms, but if light (as, say, carried by adventurers exploring a dungeon) comes within so many feet of them, they start [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin shrieking]]. Like with the aforementioned Jib-Jib, this isn't a good thing if there are more powerful monsters investigating the source of the racket: many predators in the Underdark use them as dinner bells... |
| 257 | [[/folder]] |
| 258 | |
| 259 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 260 | * ''VideoGame/AkatsukiBlitzkampf'' has the DarkActionGirl Marilyn Sue, who sounds like a little girl [[VocalDissonance but is an adult]] LadyOfWar. The ''Ausf. Achse'' console version adds the LittleMissBadass Perfecti, who packs quite the shrill voice as well. |
| 261 | * ''Videogame/BatmanArkhamOrigins'' gives us Tracey Buxton, Penguin's second-in-command and one half of his PaidHarem. She's a very attractive blonde with a squawking voice and heavy Cockney accent like her boss. |
| 262 | * Yaya Panda from ''VideoGame/CrashBandicoot'', specifically her ''[[VideoGame/CrashTeamRacingNitroFueled Nitro-Fueled]]'' incarnation. She looks downright adorable, but man is her voice ''grating''. It gets even worse when it starts cracking... |
| 263 | * Every character from ''VideoGame/DontStarve'' is "voiced" by an instrument of some kind. Webber, a sweet young boy who just happens to be permanently fused with a spider that tried to eat him, sounds like a discordant synthesizer. A fan once infamously asked the devs if Webber's voice was produced by dropping the synthesizer a flight of stairs. |
| 264 | * ''VideoGame/DragonQuestVIII'' has the boss Don Mole, who stole a harp you need. His music is so bad that one of his lackeys ''passed out standing up'' from the pain. In battle, his music can confuse the whole party and his sidekicks too. Continuing the gag, later you find a journal in Castle Argonia that describes birds falling out of the air and deer and rabbits writhing on the ground foaming at the mouth at the horrible sound of his music. |
| 265 | * In ''VideoGame/{{Drakensang}}'' 2: River of Time one can buy a roaring hamster (German: Brüllhamster) whose roar is said to be loud enough to scare monsters away. The only chance you get to hear the roar, though, is when you [[spoiler:''Open'' the critter as if to read a book]] |
| 266 | * Anyone who remembers the first ''VideoGame/EccoTheDolphin'' game for Genesis will remember the ''very'' shrill cry that the cute little dolphin character screamed when he got hit by an enemy. The sound was so annoying to many players that it was toned down in ''Tides of Time''. |
| 267 | * In ''VideoGame/EscapeFromMonkeyIsland'', the beautiful wooden figurehead of the ''Dainty Lady'' can be brought to life -- turns out, she's got a voice like she's been smoking cigarettes since childhood, and she proceeds to grouse bitterly at Guybrush about her lot in life. |
| 268 | * In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'', Sumia's daughter Cynthia. Her introduction, should Chrom recruit her and if he's her father, involves her yelling in his ear. Indeed, one of her regular voice clips is a very childlike-sounding and loud "UWAAAAH!" |
| 269 | -->'''Cynthia:''' Wait—then you really are...! Oh, Father! I missed you SOOOOO MUUUCH! \ |
| 270 | '''Chrom:''' My... my ears... |
| 271 | * ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddysWorld'': Toy Chica, much like many other characters in the game, is the SuperDeformed, cute, and innocent-looking BadassAdorable animatronic, a far cry from her uncanny-looking canon counterpart. In Update 2's "Foxy Fighters" minigame, she was given her own dialogue and voice...a voice that is very noisy and squeaky, which gets even more ear-grating when she starts bugging the player about it, complete with the giant speech portraits of her [[InterfaceScrew obscuring the player's view]]. |
| 272 | -->'''Toy Chica:''' [[BrokenRecord YOU WON'T GET TIRED OF MY VOICE, WILL YOU?! YOU WON'T GET TIRED OF MY VOICE, WILL YOU?! YOU WON'T GET TIRED OF MY VOICE, WILL YOU?! YOU WON'T GET TIRED OF MY VOICE, WILL YOU?!]] |
| 273 | * ''VideoGame/GenshinImpact'' has Paimon, a tiny little pixie...thing who tags along as the Traveller’s self-proclaimed tour guide and BestFriend. She’s cute and lovable enough when she isn’t leaning into AnnoyingVideoGameHelper territory, but her voice is ''very'' squeaky in every dub besides the CN one, meaning that listening to her for a long time (which any player going through the story and completing as many World Quests and Commissions they can will have to do [[VoiceForTheVoiceless a]] ''[[VoiceForTheVoiceless lot]]'' can get incredibly grating. |
| 274 | * ''VideoGame/GhostTrick'' has Missile, an adorably fluffy Pomeranian who loves to bark. As expected of a small yappy dog, when he speaks in spirit form, he has NoIndoorVoice. |
| 275 | * ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'': |
| 276 | ** [[PlayerCharacter Michael De Santa's]] daughter Tracey, particularly during the missions "Father/Son", where she's arguing with her mom over a boyfriend, and Michael plays music on his [=iFruit=] phone to drown them out, and "Daddy's Little Girl", where her voice breaks when she screams at Jimmy for ruining her day. |
| 277 | ** Michael's wife Amanda can also be this at times, most prominently during the mission "Reuniting the Family". |
| 278 | -->'''Michael''': Ah, gee! [[LampshadeHanging Because all you do is whine at me]]! \ |
| 279 | '''Amanda''': Oh! "All I do is whine"?! Michael, could you please stop murdering people? Michael, could you stop endangering me and the both of your children? [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech You kill people, and then you sit in the sun and drink and feel guilty about it! That is not work!]] \ |
| 280 | '''Michael''': I DON'T SEE ''YOU'' COMPLAINING ON THE WAY TO THE FUCKING BANK!! |
| 281 | * ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear'' has its own as well, in the form of Jam Kuradoberi. Listening to her voice for more than an hour '''will''' make your head explode. |
| 282 | %%** [[Creator/SatomiKoorogi May's]] just as bad, if not worse. |
| 283 | ** Bridget actually started having a high-pitched but bearable tone in the original ''XX'' series, but when Yukiko Kato took over in the ''Accent Core'' series, her voice got more high-pitched to the point where it became ear-grating. Her re-appearance in ''-STRIVE-'' averts it, as while her voice is still high-pitched, it's not as grating. |
| 284 | * During one of the last levels in ''VideoGame/HitmanBloodMoney'', there is a beautiful and {{Stripperific}} singer in an angel costume, who has an absolutely ''horrible'' voice and sings every single note off-key. [[spoiler:As it turns out, she is an assassin who murdered the original singer in an attempt to get to you.]] |
| 285 | * In story, Misha from ''VisualNovel/KatawaShoujo''. The teacher even outright states she's got volume control problems and it's mentioned several times that she's, well, loud. Since the game is set in a school for the disabled and Misha's exact disability was unknown until the full version was released, many fans leaned towards partial deafness, though this was {{Jossed}} in the final version which explains she's there to learn sign language. |
| 286 | * ''Videogame/TheKingOfFighters'': |
| 287 | ** "PSYCHO BAAAAAAALLLLL!!!". Though it depends [[TheOtherDarrin on which seiyuu Athena has.]] The worse ones were Moe Nagasaki (95) and early!Creator/HarunaIkezawa (98, 99); now Ikezawa still voices her with a high tone, but not nearly as high as the start. |
| 288 | %%** Yuri Sakazaki. |
| 289 | %%** Rose Bernstein. |
| 290 | %%** Momoko probably earned her way into here after ''XI''. |
| 291 | ** Mai Shiranui actually started having a high-pitched but bearable tone in the VideoGame/FatalFury and early VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters games, but as time passed Akoya Sogi's voice got more and more high-pitched. When Creator/AmiKoshimizu took over, however, she lowered the pitch and now Mai sounds way better. |
| 292 | ** A rare male example is Sie Kensou. Around KOF 96, Eiji Yanou changed his pitch to try portraying him as more HotBlooded than before... and as a result, his voice became ''really'' childish [[VocalDissonance for a guy supposed to be in his late teens.]] He had to tone it down around the start of the Ash Saga. He seems to return to being high-pitched once [[TheOtherDarrin Yuuto Kaname]] takes over for KOF XIV. |
| 293 | * Franchise/{{Kirby}} uses this as powerup that ''kills everything on screen''. The [[Anime/KirbyRightBackAtYa animated adaptation]] as well as the original game's instruction manual, demonstrates this as Kirby [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-O1CCTC5VZ0 having a horrible singing voice,]] which, when amplified, is a BrownNote to anyone who hears it. |
| 294 | * Yordles in ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'' are known to have a relatively high-pitch voice, especially Teemo, where many players find his voice acting to be adorably annoying. Another yordle who fits the bill is Gnar, being an [[ContemporaryCaveman ancient yordle]] child who [[HulkingOut breaks free]] from [[HumanPopsicle being encased in true ice]] eons ago. The only two yordles that don't fit into this bill are Poppy (a serious-minded Ambadassador to Demacia) and Rumble (a very egotistical and arrogant yordle), where their voices are much deeper than a typical yordle. |
| 295 | * Shadow Kanji in ''VideoGame/Persona4ArenaUltimax'' has an ''extremely'' high-pitched voice in the Japanese track. |
| 296 | * The Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Whismur has quite a loud crying volume for such an otherwise quiet and cute Mon (in the Pokédex, it's said that when Whismur starts crying, it's so loud that ''it startles itself'' and [[TheWoobie that makes it cry]] ''[[TheWoobie even louder]]!''). It emphasizes much less on the cute and more of the cacophony when it evolves into the appropriately named Loudred, then Exploud. Furthermore, the moves Hyper Voice and Uproar, and Round play on this trope, as they can be learned by such cute {{Mons}} as Jigglypuff, Minccino, and Rotom. |
| 297 | * In ''VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}},'' Bonita Soleil fits this to a "T", even having a small gag where she is crying to a recorded woman's voice. Something of note is that she is voiced by Creator/StephenStanton, who also voices [[TheStoic Sasha Nein]] from the same game. |
| 298 | * ''VideoGame/RagnarokOnline'' has Baby Desert Wolves. Absolutely adorable, and they don't ordinarily attack the player -- rather, they convince the player to attack ''them.'' ''[yip] [yip] [yip] [yip] [yip] [yip]''... |
| 299 | * The Rabbids from ''VideoGame/{{Rayman}}'' series, and especially ''VideoGame/RavingRabbids''. "BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" |
| 300 | * ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'': |
| 301 | ** Cream the Rabbit, very much TheCutie and a CheerfulChild, has an unexpectedly high-pitched voice in the Japanese voice acting. All three of her English voice actors aim for a similarly high pitch to varying results, sometimes nailing it, sometimes sounding more shrill than lovable. |
| 302 | ** In ''VideoGame/SonicHeroes'', Charmy somehow manages to be ''even higher-pitched'' than Cream, even though he's supposed to be a young boy. |
| 303 | * ''VideoGame/Splatoon2'': Pearl is a diminutive Inkling whose voice is repeatedly shown to be dangerously powerful. One of the Sunken Scrolls shows her destroying the equipment during a singing contest as a child, she's heavily implied to be the source of an UrbanLegend that Marie tells you about a screaming ghost on Mount Nantai, and in the ''Octo Expansion'' you can actually listen to a recording of Pearl [[MetalScream "singing"]] that ends with her blowing out the speakers. Then there's the fact that [[spoiler:when amplified with a Killer Wail, her voice is powerful enough to win a BeamOWar with a doomsday device with enough power to destroy a city.]] |
| 304 | * ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'': |
| 305 | ** The Toads, in most games when they're voiced. Early Nintendo 64 games like ''Mario Party'' and ''Mario Kart 64'' gave them cheerful childlike voices, then for some reason, they decided to change the voice to being more high-pitched and [[VocalDissonance very raspy]] and it's been that way ever since. [[note]] Compare [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nyZ2XpBBNo Toad in MK 64]] to [[https://youtu.be/VZ4_PEBDk-c Toad in MK Wii]]. [[/note]] |
| 306 | ** Princess Daisy is a cute young princess like Peach. However, she's such a GenkiGirl that she practically screams many of her lines, especially in later titles. |
| 307 | ** Baby Mario in ''VideoGame/YoshisIsland''. In ''Yoshi's Island DS'' Baby Peach, Franchise/DonkeyKong, Wario and Bowser respectively ''all'' have different cries. This case is justified and enforced; playtesters failed to realize that if you leave Baby Mario alone long enough, bad things happen, so the developers intentionally made Baby Mario's cries loud and grating, so the player would hurry up and get him back before it was too late. |
| 308 | * ''VideoGame/TalesOfTheAbyss'': The entire cheagle race, which Miue belongs to, are small, plush-like creatures with (usually) high-pitched voices. This is something that annoys the hell out of Luke, which he complains about almost every time Miue opens his mouth. |
| 309 | * Oosako Chikara from the third ''[[VisualNovel/TokimekiMemorial Tokimeki Memorial Girls Side]]'' game has quite a loud voice for a child... |
| 310 | * Even though we don't get to see it, Edy Nelson from ''VideoGame/ValkyriaChronicles'' found herself to be tone-deaf, which causes her to cease her [[UnknownRival one-sided rivalry]] with [[GlamorousWartimeSinger Rosie]] and decide to become an actress instead. Her voice on both the Japanese and English tracks isn't bad to listen to, though. |
| 311 | ** We do get to see it in a sidequest in the sequel, ''VideoGame/ValkyriaChroniclesII''. It's pretty much exactly what you'd expect. [[spoiler:Unless you're Anisette.]] |
| 312 | * The Boncas from ''VideoGame/{{Warcraft}}'' offshoot ''VideoGame/WarWind'' are big rhino-like six-legged cattle. Their children, however, are clearly some mutant forms of yappy dogs judging by the screeching they do when you attack them. Why would you ever want to attack such terrible things? Because they like to zip in and out of your buildings stealing resources, eating food, and smashing things randomly. Of course, you better be prepared because all that screeching will bring the whole herd close behind. |
| 313 | * ''VideoGame/ZenlessZoneZero'' has Corin Wickes, a maid for Victoria Housekeeping Co. Since she's 15, her voice is naturally high-pitched, but she's also an anxious wreck who's quite prone to squealing and squeaking at even higher pitches, like in most of her basic attacks. Fans of her sarcastically say that if you want the full experience of playing Corin, [[ShmuckBait put on headphones and turn the volume to max.]] |
| 314 | [[/folder]] |
| 315 | |
| 316 | [[folder:Web Animation]] |
| 317 | * WebAnimation/BattleForDreamIsland: Bubble has quite a whiny voice, which gets on Match and Pencil's nerves until their eliminations. |
| 318 | * WebAnimation/FridayNightFunkinWithLyrics: While Girlfriend's high-pitched voice is usually quite tolerable, her singing voice (as demonstrated in Week 7 With Lyrics) can be rather shrill on some notes. |
| 319 | * WebAnimation/NyanNekoSugarGirls: Raku's voice is extremely high-pitched and whiny. It doesn't help that when she screams or cries, it can get very grating, especially in the fourth episode where she gets bitten by a squirrel. |
| 320 | [[/folder]] |
| 321 | |
| 322 | [[folder:Web Comics]] |
| 323 | * The Creepy Black Cat in the ''Webcomic/{{Girly}}'' comic is somewhat cute (for a cat whose back of the head can't be told from its front), but when it meows... |
| 324 | ** [[http://girlyyy.com/go/255 Marshmallow kitty!]] |
| 325 | * ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob:'' Snookums the tentacle bunny is little and cute, but also ''very'' heavy, so when he hops toward you the accompanying noise is WHAM! WHAM! WHAM! WHAM! |
| 326 | * ''WebComic/PrincessPrincess'': Amira goes to rescue Sadie because she thinks she is screaming in distress... turns out she was actually singing. |
| 327 | %%* [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1566 Yelling Bird]] from ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent''. |
| 328 | * In [[https://satwcomic.com/turn-it-up-to-11 this strip]] from ''Webcomic/ScandinaviaAndTheWorld'', where Sister America asks Denmark why Danish babies cry so infrequently. He brings out "the quietest baby" he has, which just sits there screaming its head off for the rest of the strip, for no discernible reason, much to Sister America's horror. Denmark is completely oblivious to how loud the baby is and insists that this is normal. |
| 329 | %%* [[http://www.vincifruit.com/strip.php?id=4&sid=177 Sonnet]], from webcomic ''Webcomic/VinciAndArty''. |
| 330 | [[/folder]] |
| 331 | |
| 332 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
| 333 | * ''Website/{{Neopets}}:'' |
| 334 | ** One of the {{Random Event}}s that can occur is a Mutant Kadoatie incessantly meowing near you. [[ExploitedTrope It will stop only if you pay its owner 5000 Neopoints]]. |
| 335 | ** Kadoaties as a whole are described as incredibly loud. Their owners usually have to sleep with the lights on, because their Kadoatie will yowl and cry nonstop in the dark. |
| 336 | * ''Website/SCPFoundation'': Essy-Pee toothreethree and Steven— er, [[http://www.scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2337 SCP-2337]], "Doctor Spanko," is a corncrake capable of speaking [[WordSaladHumor "a language tangentially related to English."]] He's a friendly and chipper little guy, but has a serious case of NoIndoorVoice; the minimum volume he can vocalize at is 90dB, and he can go far, far louder than that. During initial containment, he managed to rupture 3 people's eardrums while just trying to have a friendly chat. |
| 337 | * Singer and influencer Sophia Grace Brownlee was definitely this in her younger years. In her frequent appearances on The Ellen Show with her cousin Rosie [=McClelland=], she had a tendency to scream at the top of her lungs whenever something made her excited, especially when she got to meet her favorite celebrities. |
| 338 | [[/folder]] |
| 339 | |
| 340 | [[folder:Web Videos]] |
| 341 | * [[WebVideo/BumReviews Chester A. Bum]] is frequently adorable, but his constant NoIndoorVoice can pierce your eardrums. |
| 342 | * WebVideo/{{Foxplushy}} may be a cute young woman, but constantly emits high-pitched, ear-piercing screams when frightened or really excited. |
| 343 | * WebAnimation/{{hololive}}: |
| 344 | ** Miko Sakura's voice is normally high-pitched and squeaky, but she plays this up for all its worth, to the point where her voice ends up being likened to that of a toddler. |
| 345 | ** Subaru Oozura is the tomboyish manager of an [=MMA=] team and an e-sports club with some girly tics, but her voice by default is likened to a duck's. |
| 346 | ** Rushia Uruha's voice is cutesy by default, but whenever she screams, especially when angry or excited, she tends to be so loud they sound like they could wake the dead (fitting, given that Rushia is a necromancer). |
| 347 | ** Chloe Sakamata has a cutesy [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVU4kFHHqcY "Poe poe poe!"]], which she occasionally uses specifically to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwxnL3ukjHI annoy her]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXlq9iUqvfo stream partners]]. Sometimes, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoB-zPJuflk this gets turned on her]]. |
| 348 | ** Risu Ayunda has a cute appearance and voice, but often emits ear-piercing screams when frightened. |
| 349 | ** Kobo Kanaeru has a very loud and high-pitched speaking voice, and she's prone to unleashing deafening screams when terrified or surprised. |
| 350 | ** Nene Momosuzu has a tendency to wail quite loudly when frustrated or distressed. |
| 351 | ** Luna Himemori knows her voice is somewhat annoying to the other hololive members and tends to play it up for all it's worth. Marine in particular jokingly refers to her as the kind of friend that one would punch in the face because of what she does with her voice. |
| 352 | ** Ollie Kureiji is energetic and cheerful all the time, but also seems to have NoIndoorVoice, since most of her lines are shouted at the top of her lungs instead of spoken normally, and if she gets excited, you can expect damaged headphones. |
| 353 | ** Calliope Mori, on several occasions, has screamed really loud or in a really bizarre way, when she has gotten scared, frustrated, or excited, such as when everyone else made fun of her during a ''Jackbox'' collab stream, she found a shiny Giratina after 1680 tries and managed to catch it in a stream for ''Pokemon: Brilliant Diamond'', and when she cleared the DLC act of ''Jump King''. |
| 354 | ** Zigzagged with Mumei Nanashi, as while she is normally soft-spoken, she can get pretty loud if agitated enough. |
| 355 | ** Kiara Takanashi tends to make high-pitched screams whenever she panics such as when enemies creep up on her. It doesn't take away from her natural charm though. |
| 356 | ** Amelia Watson's usual voice is pretty normal. However, she has the ability to make noises that can be described as "inhuman," such as when she explains how her TimeMachine works. Severe frustration in a game can also bring it out, as she moves from grumbles to the occasional screech and finally assorted gremlin noises. There are even compilations of these gremlin moments showing how common it is. |
| 357 | ** Mococo of FUWAMOCO definitely is cute, but she also can let loose sustained, high-pitched, or raspy shrieks (possibly best exemplified by their performance of "Crazy Frog"). She also has notably loud sneezes, when compared to Fuwawa. |
| 358 | ** Gura Gawr may be adorable, but tends to emit high-pitched, ear-piercing screams or shrieks when she's scared, frustrated, or excited. |
| 359 | * Dodo from ''WebVideo/{{Kittisaurus}}'' has a very long and loud meow, which Claire refers to as his warcry. He's actually the loudest of the cats, and given there's ten of them in total, that's saying a lot. |
| 360 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/@themermaidscales3585 [=TheMermaidscales=]]] is a beautiful woman, but she screams like a banshee when she's frightened, upset, or excited. This is especially true in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oI15DaBoo5Q her livestream where she celebrates reaching 12 million subscribers]]. Better have your earplugs ready and the volume turned down before you watch it. |
| 361 | * In his early videos, WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic hadn't gotten his usual ScreamsLikeALittleGirl talent down yet and so sounded like a howler monkey whenever he got pissy. |
| 362 | * In the ''WebVideo/{{Scamalot}}'' episode "[[https://youtu.be/vGThwFJiC0Q Hong Kong]]", James mentions his plans to bring three small dogs with him when he stays at Cho's house. |
| 363 | * WebVideo/{{Trickywi}}: As adorable as she is, it's not recommended to watch her while wearing headphones, because she can go ''really'' high-pitched when excited. |
| 364 | [[/folder]] |
| 365 | |
| 366 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 367 | * ''WesternAnimation/TwoStupidDogs'' had a recurring character based on the aforementioned Little Red Riding Hood. Her voice tended to fluctuate between a voice you'd expect from a young girl and something akin to a foghorn that learned English. |
| 368 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Sixteen}}'': |
| 369 | ** Caitlin's speaking voice is fine when she's calm, but she has a seriously loud, ear-piercing scream, and her bawling can be grating as well. |
| 370 | ** The Khaki Barn clones all have childish, high-pitched voices. Although it [[SimpletonVoice befits their lack of intelligence]], they tend to group {{squee}}, which annoys Nikki to no end. |
| 371 | * Darwin, the adorable [[UpliftedAnimal walking, talking goldfish]] and Gumball's adopted little brother in ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'', can scream high enough to break glass. Taken to extremes in "The Castle", when Gumball makes fun of his voice and he lets out a scream so shrill, it almost renders Gumball and Anais catatonic. |
| 372 | * ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'': Freddie, Roger’s friend for Steve from an episode, screams so loud everyone’s eyes pop out. |
| 373 | -->'''Roger''': Freddaaaaaaay! |
| 374 | * Weasel from ''WesternAnimation/TheAnimalsOfFarthingWood''. Her voice is annoying to other animals except for another weasel, Measly, who is attracted to her. |
| 375 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'': [[AnnoyingYoungerSibling D.W. Read]] is also notorious in her early seasons up until season 15 in where she was a tantrum thrower and fits especially in "[[Recap/ArthurS2E18ArthurVsTheVeryMeanCrossingGuardDWsVeryBadMood D.W.'s Very Bad Mood]]" in where she constantly throws fits over not getting invited to her friend's party and "[[Recap/ArthurS2E3DWThePickyEaterBusterAndTheDaredevils D.W. The Picky Eater]]" where she gets [[BerserkButton berserk]] over finding that her plate has [[StockYuck spinach]], which D.W. [[DoesNotLikeSpam hates]]. |
| 376 | * The Trope Inspirer was a cute little bird, something like a [[RidiculouslyCuteCritter Tawny Frogmouth]], in the ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' episode "[[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheSwamp The Swamp]]". It's all fluffy and precious, and then it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5Zuv5PsXRY emits a loud call that sounds disconcertingly like a woman being murdered]]. This particular instance doubles as the mother of all {{Jump Scare}}s. |
| 377 | * In ''WesternAnimation/BarbieAndTheSecretDoor'', Malucia's singing is so loud and high-pitched it shatters Grodlin's glasses while he's busy covering his ears. |
| 378 | * ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'': [[Characters/DCAUHarleyQuinn Harley Quinn]] is pretty cute both in and out of costume in a PerkyFemaleMinion way, but her voice provided by Arleen Sorkin is very nasally and screechy. Of course, this is intentional and based on RuleOfFunny, and the episode showing [[http://youtu.be/gd_Puz9ngRE her origin]] shows that she's capable of speaking in a more normal voice and only switched to the screechy one once she donned the costume. |
| 379 | * In an equally amusing inversion, ''WesternAnimation/Ben10AlienForce'' has a big tough alien [[EvilDebtCollector Repo Man]] who has a high squeaky voice. |
| 380 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Bluey}}'': |
| 381 | ** Bluey is initially overjoyed to find her lost Chattermax toy, until its incessant noisemaking starts wearing on her nerves. |
| 382 | ** Muffin is adorable, but also very easy to set off. (Especially in "Sleepover" when she was underslept due to being in the middle of transitioning away from daytime naps.) |
| 383 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Caillou}}'': Caillou is a cute looking child who easily [[TantrumThrowing throws tantrums]] especially in the infamous circus episode. |
| 384 | -->'''Caillou''': [[MemeticMutation Silly old car, silly, silly, silly!]] '''''[[InelegantBlubbering WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!]]''''' |
| 385 | * Brittany Taylor from ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}''. Her high-pitched voice can make it hard to understand her sometimes, especially when she is hysterical. However, in "The Old and the Beautiful", residents at a retirement home take a liking to her voice. |
| 386 | * In ''WesternAnimation/DefendersOfTheEarth'', Ming tried to wipe out the zuffoids because he couldn't stand the incessant sing-song chant they produce when several of them get together. Zuffy was thought to be the only zuffoid to have escaped the massacre, but, towards the end of the "Prince Kro-Tan" arc, the Defenders discover a whole colony of zuffoids on Mongo and use their chant as a weapon against the MonsterOfTheWeek. However, Mandrake at least seems to share Ming's sentiments about the noise: |
| 387 | -->That's why Ming tried to destroy all the zuffoids! |
| 388 | * Timmy Turner from ''WesternAnimation/FairlyOddParents''. When he gets upset, his screaming and yelling can get very shrill and grating. |
| 389 | * [[{{Keet}} Chum Chum]] from ''WesternAnimation/FanboyAndChumChum'' is Fanboy's best friend and sidekick who is energetic and high spirited. Thanks to his actress Creator/NikaFutterman, he has a high-pitched voice and his screams are so loud that it could [[https://youtu.be/ToZuZ-Oe-kI send Lenny flying!]] |
| 390 | * ''WesternAnimation/FelixTheCat'' character Vavoom was a cute little Eskimo fellow who could be called upon to make a Sonic Attack by saying his name. Walls would shatter. Mountains could be tunneled through if he said his name repeatedly. |
| 391 | * The title character in the [[DerangedAnimation Bill Plympton]] short ''Guard Dog'' is an UglyCute AngryGuardDog of the "bred to sound much bigger and scarier than he really is" type mentioned below. And he's a [[TheWoobie Woobie]]. |
| 392 | * Olga Pataki of ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'' has a very grating high-pitched voice, especially when she gets excited or cries. |
| 393 | * Moofy from the ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'' episode "Girl Who Cried Gnome". She's very adorable and hilarious with the personality of GenkiGirl, but her voice is awfully shrill whenever she loses it. It doesn’t help that she's emotionally unstable, this is due to her being a very spoiled young girl. |
| 394 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Jellystone}}'': Augie's [[DreadfulMusician song]] in the first episode is so awful that it sends a bedridden patient into cardiac arrest, as well as making Yogi lose his appetite. [[ChekhovsGun The latter ends up saving the day.]] |
| 395 | * ''WesternAnimation/KidVsKat'': Millie Burtonburger looks very adorable, but she screams and whines a lot to the point that [[EarthShatteringKaboom creates earthquakes and holes]]. |
| 396 | * Nancy Gribble of ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' is the resident MsFanservice and speaks in a sultry tone most of the time, but tends to sound very shrill when she loses her cool. |
| 397 | ** Luanne Platter's voice gets very shrill when she get emotional, and as of season 3 her voice is permanently shrill. |
| 398 | * ''WesternAnimation/LetsGoLuna'': Vlad from "Lullaby for Baby Vlad". He's a cute little bear cub, but his crying is extremely loud. |
| 399 | * Stitch of the ''Franchise/LiloAndStitch'' franchise has an incredibly nasal voice that is made worse by his gibberish-sounding alien native language, his broken and childish English, and his often-manic behavior. (Although, several fans of the character heavily disagree with this and even find his voice cute as he is.) His creator and primary voice actor, ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch'' co-writer and co-director Creator/ChrisSanders, stated that before he wound up voicing his character, he would use that same voice to mess with and annoy his co-workers.[[note]]Sanders became Stitch's voice because the production staff got used to his vocalizations, and that he and his co-writer/co-director Creator/DeanDeBlois didn't want a professional voice actor or a celebrity to voice Stitch out of fear that Disney [[ExecutiveMeddling would force them to record more dialogue than what is absolutely necessary]] for the film.[[/note]] Despite this, Sanders also admitted in a ''Vulture'' interview in 2022 that Stitch's voice was so poorly received by test audiences that it was consistently the lowest-rated aspect of the film on their scorecards. |
| 400 | * ''WesternAnimation/LittlePrincess'': The titular character is always prone to screaming at the top of her lungs when she is scared or frustrated, making a [[NightmareFace very wide-open face]] which is scary for kids contrasting her cute appearance. |
| 401 | * ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'': |
| 402 | ** A relatively early example in animation is the WesternAnimation/BugsBunny short ''WesternAnimation/LittleRedRidingRabbit''. Little Red is extremely loud and boisterous, with a grating voice. She annoys Bugs and the Big Bad Wolf so much, it gets to the point where they decide to punish ''her'' (and since she annoys the audience too, it's a pretty satisfactory ending). |
| 403 | --->'''Red:''' ''GRANDMA! HEY, GRANDMA!''\ |
| 404 | '''Bugs:''' I'll do it, but I'll probably hate myself in the morning.\ |
| 405 | ''[cue Red switching places with the Wolf holding up the mountain of junk over a shovel of hot coal]'' |
| 406 | ** There was also a despondent duckling with a briefcase who, whenever Daffy Duck tried to comfort him or ask [[MacGuffin what was inside]], would shout in a loud man's voice, '''[[BrattyHalfPint NYAAAAAAAH, SHUT UP!!!]]''' By the end of the short, Daffy and the hunter chasing him have had enough of the little Jerkass, so they just take the briefcase and open it [[spoiler:revealing something they both dread: a THE END title card!]] |
| 407 | ** Bob Clampett seems to have enjoyed this gag. Tweety Bird and other cute little creatures in his shorts could suddenly have a deep and ''very'' loud voice. This is also one of his DistaffCounterpart [[WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures Sweety Bird]]'s signature gags. |
| 408 | --->Aw, da poor puddy tat. He fall down an' go... '''''BOOM!''''' |
| 409 | ** Another ''Looney Tunes'' short featured a bird whose cry sounds like an old-timey car horn for some reason. |
| 410 | * ''WesternAnimation/MaoMaoHeroesOfPureHeart:'' Adorabat, as the name indicates, is indeed adorable. She's also terribly shrill when raising her voice, and tends to screech wildly at the slightest bit of excitement or anger. |
| 411 | * This is the basis of the WesternAnimation/MGMOneshotCartoon "Little Gravel Voice"; the short is centered on a little donkey who is very cute and friendly, but his bray is not only extremely obnoxious (and keeps botching his attempts to befriend the local animals) but literally ''harmful'', as the wolf it encounters later finds out the hard way. Even after he wins over the other animals by scaring off the wolf, they still tie up his snout with his ears, just so they won't have to hear his braying anymore. |
| 412 | * WesternAnimation/MinnieMouse may be adorable in several instances, but her voice is so high that it can grate on your nerves. Kaitlyn Robrock's performance as Minnie managed to tone down her cute voice compared to Russi Taylor. |
| 413 | * ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': |
| 414 | ** Sweetie Belle is a cute little unicorn filly who proves to be this in the episode "Stare Master". She's actually a very good singer, but as Fluttershy discovers, also a very ''[[https://youtu.be/SQs-W7_gFrM loud]]'' one. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7egMfTgaRk Especially]] if she starts singing [[PlaygroundSong "99 Buckets of Oats on the Wall".]] |
| 415 | ** Sweetie's older sister Rarity usually affects a very nice mid-Atlantic-accented speech. Get her to whining, however, and you'll give up carts full of jewels to be rid of her. Turns out she knows it and uses that voice on purpose to invoke PityTheKidnapper. |
| 416 | ** Along with Sweetie Belle are her two friends Apple Bloom and Scootaloo. The three of them make up the "Cutie Mark Crusaders", and whenever all three yell at once the other ponies around wince and/or have their manes blown by the force of their yelling. |
| 417 | ** The Pinkie Clones from "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E3TooManyPinkiePies Too Many Pinkie Pies]]". While Pinkie Pie's enthusiasm and general playfulness can be considered adorable, an army them [[BrokenRecord repeatedly shouting]] "'''FUN! FUN! FUN!'''" while tearing Ponyville apart would drive anyone insane. |
| 418 | ** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E7MakeNewFriendsButKeepDiscord Make New Friends but Keep Discord]]", all three Cutie Mark Crusaders loudly rejoicing in unison is enough for Discord to ''plug his ears with his own horns''. Yup, pointy ends first; of course he's a spirit of chaos, so it isn't something that can harm him. |
| 419 | ** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS6E1TheCrystallingPart1 The Crystalling, Part 1]]", [[GooGooGodlike Flurry Heart]] gets so upset when forcibly separated from playing with Pinkie Pie, she produces an amplified wail that [[spoiler:''[[AccidentallyBrokeTheMacGuffin destroys the Crystal Heart]]'']]. |
| 420 | ** Silverstream the Hippogriff tends to raise her voice whenever she's excited, which is to say a ''lot''. |
| 421 | ** In ''Pahkitew Island'', Ella is an [[TheCutie adorable]] faux-princess with a BeautifulSingingVoice; however, her teammates find her constant and often inopportune singing to be annoying, especially Sugar. Chris is also annoyed by Ella's singing [[spoiler:to the point where he threatens to boot Ella from the show if she sings again, and actually follows through with his threat]]. |
| 422 | * ''WesternAnimation/PeppaPig'': |
| 423 | ** George Pig can easily fit this trope due to his constant ProneToTears. |
| 424 | ** In the Spanish dub, when Richard cries, he sounds like he's shrieking. |
| 425 | ** Baby Alexander's wailing is loud enough to be heard from quite a while away. Although it's justified, since he ''is'' a baby. |
| 426 | %%* [[Music/YokoOno Yoyo Nono]] from the ''WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain'' episode "All You Need is Narf." |
| 427 | * ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998''. In "Nuthin' Special," Buttercup tries to find her special power and does a sonic scream. She is matched by Blossom and Bubbles. The Townsville folk seem to be more interested in this sibling contest than in the collateral damage it's causing. Bubbles as well, when she's upset or excited. |
| 428 | --> "HE'S MAKING NEW POWERPUFF GIRLS!!!" |
| 429 | * Gus from ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'' is adorable, and his speaking voice sounds fine when he's calm. When he starts screaming, especially in "Germ Warfare", it gets annoying. |
| 430 | * Rigby of ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'' is lovable, but is nevertheless prone to anger whenever he's reminded of how short and weak he is. He will frequently yell out ''STOP TALKING!'' when he can't take it anymore. |
| 431 | * In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'', "Day of the Flecko", while Rocko is trying to sleep, a cute little bird flies into a tree branch, chirping. But soon its chirps become louder and more obnoxious to the point of yelling "CHOIP! CHOIP! CHOIP!" Rocko retaliates with a BigShutUp, causing the bird to fall from the tree. |
| 432 | * ''WesternAnimation/RubyGloom'': Misery sure is adorable, but her banshee wailing can shatter glass miles away. |
| 433 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'': |
| 434 | ** Angelica pretends to be this. She's just plain bratty-yelly, though. |
| 435 | ** Tommy’s baby brother Dil when he cries, in the movie where he is introduced the other babies cover their ears when he cries and comment on how loud and annoying he is, Angelica complains at one point that he’s so loud she can’t hear the TV. |
| 436 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': |
| 437 | ** The episode "The Frying Game" had the endangered screaming caterpillar (or "screamapillar"). It ''is'' cute when not screaming... or laughing at Homer being executed... |
| 438 | ** In "Mr. Spritz Goes to Washington", Mayor Quimby redirects airplane traffic away from the motel where he conducts his affairs so he can hear his partner's (Miss Springfield) voice. When he discovers that she falls under this trope, Quimby laments "Now I regret buying you that opera house!" |
| 439 | *** The above is a reference to ''Citizen Kane'', where Kane uses his fortune to finance his mistress's opera career -- until everyone else finds out that her singing voice is horrendously mediocre. |
| 440 | ** "Margical History Tour": During the story of King Henry VIII, Henry (Homer) is looking for a new queen, spotting an attractive woman in the corner. Cut to their wedding, and when she gives her vows, she speaks in a shaky nasal voice. Henry has her executed ''immediately'' after the wedding. |
| 441 | * A lot of gags concerning Brak in ''WesternAnimation/SpaceGhostCoastToCoast'', ''WesternAnimation/TheBrakShow'', and ''WesternAnimation/CartoonPlanet'' invoke this trope. He has adorable mannerisms, but his easily-excited demeanor and tendency to sing about everything makes him less endearing to those around him. |
| 442 | * Sally Avril from ''WesternAnimation/TheSpectacularSpiderMan''. Cute cheerleader, but has a voice that could peel paint from the walls. [[AlphaBitch Her personality]] doesn't help much either. |
| 443 | * ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': [[Characters/StevenUniverseStevenQuartzUniverse Steven Quartz Universe]] may be an adorable little boy, but has a tendency to get rather shouty at times. |
| 444 | * The Berbils from [[WesternAnimation/ThunderCats2011 both versions]] of ''WesternAnimation/{{ThunderCats|1985}}''. Adorable, fuzzy little robot bears... who speak in an eardrum-torturing synthesizer voice. |
| 445 | * In special ''WesternAnimation/TootAndPuddle: I'll Be Home for Christmas'', this is true of all of the puppies except for "Golden," named such because "Silence is golden." |
| 446 | * ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'': |
| 447 | ** [[Characters/TotalDramaCourtney Courtney's]] high pitched and childish voice does not mesh well with her uptight personality. In particular, in "Get a Clue", she whines to Chris about wanting a prize after she solves his first riddle then after she brought in two samples of DNA, with Chris giving her his bag of cheese puffs to shut her up. |
| 448 | ** Lindsay's high pitched and childish voice is appropriate for her [[SimpletonVoice level of intellengence]], but in "Not So Happy Campers - Part 1", Lindsay whines about the communal bathrooms, in which Gwen covers her ears. Shortly thereafter, Lindsay screams bloody murder when she finds a cockroach in the cabin. |
| 449 | ** In ''Pahkitew Island'', Ella is an [[TheCutie adorable]] faux-princess with a BeautifulSingingVoice; however, her teammates find her constant and often inopportune singing to be annoying, especially Sugar. Chris is also annoyed by Ella's singing [[spoiler:to the point where he threatens to boot Ella from the show if she sings again]]. |
| 450 | ** In the 2023 reboot episode "Launch Back of Notre Game", Emma, after being launched out of a catapult, lets out a rather long high-pitched shrill that made everyone cover their ears. Chris even remarks that "she has got some pipes". |
| 451 | * ''WesternAnimation/TotalDramaPresentsTheRidonculousRace'': |
| 452 | ** Whenever Jen of the Fashion Bloggers freaks out, she screeches like a banshee. In "Bjorken Telephone", her screaming [[CameraAbuse cracks a camera lens]]. |
| 453 | ** As the season progresses, Josee, in her SanitySlippage, becomes [[NoInsideVoice more prone to shouting]]. |
| 454 | * Dr. Girlfriend from ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'' looks like Jackie Onassis but sounds rather like Harvey Fierstein. She says it's from smoking a lot but has inspired rumors that she's UsefulNotes/{{transgender}}. |
| 455 | -->"Do you smoke cigarettes, or do you ''eat'' them?" |
| 456 | * Elsa the ghost angelfish from the "Monster Tail" segments of ''Wake, Rattle, and Roll''. She has a very sweet and soft voice, but she shouts at the end of most of her sentences. |
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| 459 | [[folder:Real Life -- Animals]] |
| 460 | * There are several breeds of domestic cat with rather loud or grating voices. |
| 461 | ** Siamese cats, particular, deserve a category all their own. They sound like they have an [[NoIndoorVoice embedded caps lock key]]. While other cats may get louder, the Siamese still takes the prize because their cry is almost exactly at the same pitch as crying human babies, a sound most humans are sensitive to and find hard to block out (see above). [[http://youtu.be/WwSYm1NPHP4 This video]] showcases what happens when two of them get going at the same time, and even when they're [[http://youtu.be/BkPtO7nAlpA kittens]] they can produce some pretty impressive meows. Also applies to Oriental Shorthairs, Balinese, and Oriental Longhairs, since those are the breed names for Siamese without color-pointing, long-haired Siamese, and [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs long-haired Siamese with no color pointing]]. |
| 462 | ** Breeds with a lot of Siamese[=/=]Oriental in their gene pool, such as Cornish Rexes and Sphynxes, fall under this as well. |
| 463 | ** Bengals are roughly equivalent to three to five Siamese in raucousness. The fact that they're literally part wildcat probably helps on this front. |
| 464 | ** [[https://youtu.be/SHq7NRYUS-Q This cat]] produces an unusually drawn-out and loud meow akin to a civil defense siren: "MAAAAAAAAAAAAOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" |
| 465 | ** When a she-cat comes into estrus and starts yowling. God help you if you're trying to sleep. |
| 466 | *** Some cats have a sort of disorder that has them in heat for months at a time, no breaks. It's not only loud as hell but can actually prove fatal for the cat. |
| 467 | ** Even a normally quiet cat can and will crank up the volume to [[AttentionWhore get its owners to pay attention.]] "MURROWWWWWW..." |
| 468 | ** One cat even holds the record for the loudest purr ever, at roughly [[http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2015/5/rescue-cat-merlin-sets-new-world-record-for-loudest-purr-378630 70 decibels,]] roughly as loud as the ''dishwasher''. |
| 469 | ** Domesticated cats ''in general'', actually. Cats don't even "meow" to each other (aside from kittens meowing to their mothers); they reserve meowing to use towards humans, who are particularly [[BrownNote sensitive to it]], probably because a cat's meow is at about the same frequency of a human baby's cry. In general, communication between cats relies mostly on body language, but seeing as we humans (from cats' point of view) fail at body language, cats resort to vocal means of grabbing our attention, hence the meowing they don't even use between each other. |
| 470 | ** Ivan, one of the kittens in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2C2zDKsWSsY this video.]] Don't worry, you'll know which one soon enough. |
| 471 | * Many breeds of dogs, and in many cases this has been bred into them [[InvokedTrope deliberately]]. |
| 472 | ** The smaller breeds of dog tend to have high-pitched barks or disconcertingly loud howls, hence the nickname "[[MisterMuffykins yap dogs]]." |
| 473 | ** That piercing howl-bark you can hear three blocks away? Probably a beagle. There's a reason they were bred for hunting. |
| 474 | ** The [[AngryGuardDog Dachshund]] is a breed bred to have a loud and fierce bark like it was at least five times its actual size. Which it proceeds to do ''whenever'' passersby -- even people it has met before on friendly terms -- walk past its owner's house. There's a saying among dog owners: "Rottweilers will bark when someone comes up to your fence, but Dachshunds will bark when someone comes within fifty feet of the fence." Since Dachshunds were originally bred to take on badgers ''in their own holes'', it's the rare case where the dog's bark is actually ''not'' writing checks its bite can't cash. |
| 475 | ** Golden Retriever mixes can be this way. They tend to embody ''{{Keet}}'', but if someone's at the door (or Hell, within 50 feet of the door), expect lots of barking. |
| 476 | ** The Lhasa Apso gains extra credit for being explicitly bred as a temple guard dog and living alarm, rather than hunter or retriever like most small dogs: it combines a very loud bark with a distrust of strangers. One of the Lhasa Apso's old alternate names translated to "Roaring Lion Guardian" or something similar. |
| 477 | ** [[https://youtu.be/BhgFe6b8Nek The infamous Shiba Inu scream.]] |
| 478 | ** Shetland Sheepdogs are such beautiful animals that it ALMOST makes up for the noise. |
| 479 | ** The Basenji may not be able to ''bark'', but as many videos on Website/YouTube will attest, their howling "yodel" is no less agonizing, especially if [[https://youtu.be/S12mJk7GPiY there's more than one of them.]] And it's so hard to make them ''stop'' once they get going. |
| 480 | ** Huskies have similar yodeling skills to Basenjis, though they can also combine them with what can only be described as [[https://youtu.be/ERsXADxdGKI Chewbacca sounds.]] They are also similarly difficult to calm down once they're committed to making noise, especially if there's [[https://youtu.be/UZE4HtLxNMY more than one.]] |
| 481 | *** Similarly, Alaskan Malamutes can also sound like this. Fittingly, Chewbacca was actually based on [[Creator/GeorgeLucas Lucas']] Malamute, Indiana (and yes, this is the [[Franchise/IndianaJones dog he named Indiana]]. Lucas had a lot of fond memories of that dog). |
| 482 | ** The Bouvier des Flandres is another one of those protective dogs that will bark at anything within eyesight. It's a beautiful dog, but [[http://youtu.be/HF7pUdyAX1I IT SOUNDS LIKE BARITONE THUNDER.]] |
| 483 | ** Staffordshire Bull Terriers tend to make [[https://youtu.be/upjoX96BJyI odd noises on par with a Tasmanian devil.]] |
| 484 | %%** And then, there is [[https://youtu.be/Yv5RyQiQUyo this particular dog...]] |
| 485 | ** Jack Russel Terriers, really... love... to bark! |
| 486 | ** [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keeshond Keeshonden/ Wolfspitzen]]: fluffy, puffy, usually wolfy-coloured bundles of medium-sized... [[https://youtu.be/AGdB_EFDOAQ LOUDNESS]] (particularly in, but not restricted to, pack situations). Specifically bred to have this big bark in a medium package as a kind of... user-friendly (read "not eating you out of house and home") alarm-system you could find other work for (like dragging stuff) at a pinch. No, really. This noise was deliberate: has a great vocal range of other sounds not displayed here -- which, is no help if you get one love-sick pining/ howling at night. |
| 487 | ** Corgis. They are ''very'' vocal, ranging from quiet "woofs", whining, to full on barking up tornadoes. They are also ''very'' cute. [[https://www.facebook.com/giveafluff/photos/a.716194081787032/1935050696568025/?type=3&theater This comic]] attempts to explain their thought process behind the barking. |
| 488 | ** Greyhounds and whippets are normally quiet and docile, but when they whine, they can be quite shrill. |
| 489 | ** Brachycephalic dogs in general (i.e. bulldogs, boxers, Pugs, etc.) tend to make [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vEAydrVyv4 strange noises approximating that of human beings]] because of the shape of their snout. |
| 490 | * Flamingos. The noise they make is not unlike the trombone section of a really bad jazz band tuning up before the show...except that ''is'' the show. |
| 491 | * Peacocks are beautiful and stately but "grating beyond all possible belief" doesn't ''begin'' to describe [[https://youtu.be/s_DJNG-lxbk their courtship song.]] |
| 492 | * Howler monkeys. [[https://youtu.be/9XBsea6kDHM They weren't given their name for nothing.]] |
| 493 | ** Worse, the whole troop tends to call at once, over and over and over. |
| 494 | *** There is a very good reason for this: Howlers eat mostly leaves, which are very low in nutrients. As a result, they are more sedentary than other monkeys, due to having less energy to expend on moving around. They also need larger territories to get all the leaves they need. The problem is how to defend a large territory against other troops when you can't move fast. The Howler's solution is to make as much noise as possible to proclaim their territories without engaging in actual fights with other troops. |
| 495 | * While on the subject of noisy primates, the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siamang siamang]] is a type of gibbon that whoops and hollers its fool head off, amplified by an inflatable sac in its throat, not unlike a frog's. |
| 496 | * The House Wren is no longer than your index finger, but his song can be heard from at least five backyards away. Fortunately, the song is cute too. Many wrens share these traits. |
| 497 | ** New World blackbirds and their relatives (icterids) seem to have this as their [[PlanetOfHats hat]]. Meadowlarks, for example, are pretty enough, but on a calm day [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VAycXuRSZM their songs]] can carry for ''almost half a mile''. A red-winged blackbird's song can be charitably described as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3QicOAiBXk an imitation of a malfunctioning fax machine.]] And the yellow-headed blackbird... well... [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSYgbGPV76Y just listen.]] |
| 498 | * Mockingbirds also have a very pleasing song... most of the time. But desperate bachelors resort to singing at midnight to attract prospective mates. Singing LOUDLY at midnight. And thanks to modern technology, some mockingbirds have taken to imitating cell phone ring tones, car alarms, and power tools. |
| 499 | ** God help you when you get one that's previously lived outside a house with a constantly crying child in residence. |
| 500 | ** The rare [[UsefulNotes/AustralianWildlife lyrebirds]] are basically noisier mockingbirds. Albert's Lyrebird in particular is known to imitate not just all of the local bird calls AND all the things listed above, but human voices, traffic, and ''chainsaws''. Even when they're not mimicking, they have another call that consists of drum-like booming that can be heard for kilometers around. |
| 501 | * This trope applies to many species of parrots. For example, budgerigars can get grating with their constant chattering. |
| 502 | ** Oh God, ''budgies''. Never mind the chattering, it's the ''screeching'' that you have to watch out for. It's like the sound of nails on a chalkboard, machine-gunned into your ears. |
| 503 | *** The screeching is soft and fluffy compared to the sound of a budgerigar that is trying to make friends with the most boring bird in the garden. The most boring bird in the garden goes "squeak", quietly, and inside the house is inaudible to human ears. The budgie then replies, at a volume calculated to get through the closed windows and be clearly audible outside. '''SQUEAK.''' It is so loud that you can hear your ears' AGC mechanism thumping in and out. And it happens every 10 seconds and goes on and on and on and on and on... |
| 504 | ** Did you know that cockatoos can achieve higher decibel levels than a jet engine? |
| 505 | ** Monk parakeets, also known as "Quaker parrots," have a shrill cry that will pierce your eardrums and, with enough exposure to said cry, give you a nasty headache. |
| 506 | ** Then there's the sun conure; its near-rainbow of orange, yellow, green, and blue feathers is definitely gorgeous, and it has an engaging, playful personality. But this foot-long bird has a scream that feels rather like someone is hammering a white-hot railroad spike into your ear. And yes, they can cause temporary deafness at close range. No wonder screaming problems are one of the biggest reasons why a parrot gets dumped in rescue. |
| 507 | ** Baby lovebirds and cockatiels look really cute starting when their feathers have grown in... And would've made great candidates for voicing those blobby black demon things in ''Film/Ghost1990'' |
| 508 | ** If a parrot is left alone for a long time, it will get bored...and a bored parrot often lets out ear-piercing screeches, hoping to catch the attention of a nearby person or bird. On the other hand, being in a large group doesn't get them to shut up in the slightest. Rather, parrots in the wild chatter and call to one another continually, both for social purposes and just to keep track of one another's locations. |
| 509 | * The Eurasian bittern, A.K.A. the great bittern. It is medium-sized, has fluffy feathers, and is relatively quiet. But when the mating season comes, the males will make sounds [[https://youtu.be/M3VUS9SihKc that would put a bass drum to shame.]] In the middle of the night, no less. And they can be heard for 2 to 4 kilometers around. |
| 510 | ** Their [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ze1uzC7h8UE American cousins]] are no slouches, either. |
| 511 | * Rabbits are fairly notorious for this sort of behavior. They are normally silent but will punish their potential enemies by producing a sound that will scar you for life. This is actually an effective group defense. The sound carries amazingly and acts as a massive dinner bell for pretty much all predators, meaning whatever caught it is likely to [[SummonBiggerFish have its meal interrupted by something else.]] This might cause the predator to drop the rabbit, and may put it off hunting them again. |
| 512 | * Peaceful serenity is at least one thing that's definitely not better with penguins. At least not banded penguins (Magellanic, African, Humboldt, and Galapagos), also collectively known as Jackass Penguins, thanks to a call that sounds like a bad-tempered donkey. |
| 513 | ** The noises other penguins make are endearing, but not exactly conducive to peace. Case in point, if you live in the coastal areas of New Zealand or southern Australia, and your home happens to be located on top of a little blue penguin breeding colony, you can forget about sleep, what with the males' raucous mating calls. Just skip to the 20:24 mark of "[[https://archive.org/details/NatureS14E04TheWorldOfPenguins The World of Penguins]]", and you'll get the idea. |
| 514 | * In the bird world, the King of Disproportionate Cacophony is the European Starling. His... song (to human ears, it sounds more like a series of ultrasonic squeals and shrieks) is grating to anyone who is ''not'' a Starling at any hour of the day. But especially at five in the morning. Right outside your bedroom window. |
| 515 | * The endangered Noisy Scrub Bird of southwest Australia is very hard to see but a cinch to hear, if one is skulking in the bushes near you and calls, it's almost deafening. |
| 516 | * Although not conventionally "cute," no one can deny, that the male capercaillie (A.K.A. Eurasian wood grouse) has an unmistakable courtship call: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPBgCRKgNAc A series of guttural, rapid-fire clicks that accelerate to a cork-like "pop," before ending with a loud scraping sound]]. |
| 517 | * Cicadas. Especially, as with the Starling, for people who are sensitive to ultrasonic sounds. Tell us you'd expect something that looks like [[http://www.mechaworx.com/Cicada/masscic1.asp this]] to make [[https://youtu.be/084BPuOgzVM such a racket.]] We won't believe you. |
| 518 | ** And if you've watched a lot of ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' or ''Franchise/WhenTheyCry'', they also cause fear and anxiety. |
| 519 | ** Australians will likely be familiar with the deep croaking sounds made by Bladder Cicadas at dusk in the summer. If your garden happens to be one they like, they can get loud enough that you'll want to close the windows at dusk to muffle the noise they make. |
| 520 | ** The regular sound of South-East Asian rainforest is not birds chirping or animals calling, it's the constant high-pitched whine of cicadas. It's quite awful to experience. |
| 521 | ** And the weird thing? Some breeds of cicadas have cries that can't be transmitted via cell phone. Now try explaining to the person on the other end why you just screamed, "SHUT UP!" |
| 522 | ** These are worse in urban areas of Japan because the taller buildings have a tendency to not only echo the cicada sounds but ''amplify'' them as well, making it hard for building inhabitants to rest. |
| 523 | * Australia has a number of distinctive examples (aside from the cockatoos, lyrebirds, budgies, and cicadas mentioned above): |
| 524 | ** Koalas. Yet another animal that is normally pretty quiet, but man, when one has something to say... |
| 525 | *** Male koalas' [[https://youtu.be/BMXBV9oLbVk territory-marking calls]] sound like a capercaillie (see above) trying to imitate a donkey, with a few shades of swine and elephant seal thrown in for flavor. |
| 526 | *** When fighting over territory or stressed, koalas can also make [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0cAx1jLbJk an extremely shrill cry]] that carries for quite some distance. |
| 527 | ** When agitated, sugar gliders make a noise called [[https://youtu.be/Zt8uLejOuaQ "crabbing,"]] which can be an extremely disconcerting sound coming from a creature smaller than your hand. |
| 528 | ** Australian ravens. The familiar ''Corvus corax'' of the Northern Hemisphere are actually rather quiet, and their distinctive soft "Grok-grok" flight calls might even be considered soothing. Australian corvids, [[https://youtu.be/-1kpjsZXgrs on the other hand]]... some say they sound like little kids, others say they sound more like immensely upset cats or a mistuned kazoo, but generally, everyone agrees their "GAWWWWWWH" call is loud and too ridiculous to ignore. |
| 529 | ** Kookaburras might have one of the most distinctive and well-known calls in the bird kingdom. It's not even annoying to [[https://youtu.be/Fc_-icFHwQo listen to]]. |
| 530 | ** Magpies singing are also quite pleasant to wake up to, though [[https://youtu.be/D7nwPZrs5sc Youtube videos]] don't quite capture this. |
| 531 | *** Juvenile magpies, on the other hand, make shrill begging noises that [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exiTB9lG6eQ sound like a squeaky toy]]. |
| 532 | ** On the much more obnoxious front, they also have numerous species of parrots, mentioned above. Rainbow lorikeets bear special mention for being (A) absolutely gorgeous and (B) prone to gathering in large numbers in wooded areas and shrieking their little heads off. |
| 533 | ** Real Tasmanian devils are [[https://www.youngwitness.com.au/images/transform/v1/crop/frm/37eFwTFwWHMJ887gRxnKeHS/4535e0b8-cdd3-419e-8e41-b0d81ac0b209.png/r0_38_773_473_w1200_h678_fmax.jpg much cuter]] than their [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes animated]] counterpart, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3RjAh8PRTQ but they are just as guttural, if not more so.]] |
| 534 | ** Quolls are also quite [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2KWVZ_hsEc&t=3s loud.]] |
| 535 | ** The extinct thylacine was also [[http://www.naturalworlds.org/thylacine/biology/behaviour/behaviour_12.htm said to have a mating call similar in sound to a horse's whinny.]] |
| 536 | ** Brushtail possums resemble a cross between a monkey and a squirrel, and they have been known to make [[https://youtu.be/cHulXzuc_9Y creepy nightmarish sounds.]] |
| 537 | ** Even kangaroos, which again, are a normally quiet species of animal, can be guttural if provoked into [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gf-SAelGQqs making some noise.]] |
| 538 | * Opossums, while not cute in the traditional sense, are widely regarded as UglyCute, and occasionally make a strange [[https://youtube.com/shorts/7LU7FP8jhGE?feature=share screeching]] sound when threatened. |
| 539 | * Crickets might not be very cute, but the amount of noise they produce is entirely disproportionate to their size. |
| 540 | * Woodpeckers get an honorable mention here. They don't usually sing much, but the amount of noise they can produce with their pecking can be stunning. |
| 541 | * The spring peeper. A frog no longer than the end of your finger, which manages to be one of the loudest animals in the world. |
| 542 | ** Speaking of frogs, you do ''not'' want to [[https://youtu.be/_gbFQzsmEZQ piss off a pacman frog.]] |
| 543 | ** Many frogs in general tend to start screaming when angry. The [[MemeticMutation "REEEEEEEEEEEEEE"]] onomatopoeia actually came from someone looking up what actual angry frogs sound like, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjCVsOBu6vc and it's quite accurate.]] |
| 544 | * [[https://youtu.be/vFC2jAHx4Kg "I didn't know squirrels could do that!"]] They sure can, buddy. They also make an obnoxious noise somewhere between [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6IR0JmfkvQ&ab_channel=this_girl_is_a_squirrel barking and wheezing.]] |
| 545 | * One of the first filmed instances of a giant panda giving birth showed a possible reason why females often lose their first infants. The newborn cub was blind, naked, helpless, the size of a stick of butter, and so '''amazingly''' loud, its mom practically fled the birthing chamber in terror when it started squealing its lungs out! |
| 546 | * Guineafowl are used as watch birds in some rural communities in Africa because their [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRPlZeSV74Q obnoxiously loud, staccato alarm call]] will awaken the whole neighborhood to the danger as well. There's no such thing as stealth when sneaking past guineas... |
| 547 | * Quails. They're not all that much larger than a goose egg, but that trilling noise they make carries further than you'd think. |
| 548 | * Guinea pigs are utterly adorable, and very, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQcvlyjcaPM very loud.]] And that particular sound is the one they make when they're happy about something or want to be held. Cute, cuddly, and friendly to a fault, but if you crinkle a bag, open a fridge or make any kind of noise that tells them food is coming, it's ''wheek wheek wheek'' all the way home. |
| 549 | ** Guinea pigs are often very quiet when held by new owners. Once they learn to trust you, however, they will ''not'' stop burbling, cooing, or grunting when they are with you. |
| 550 | ** Another, much rarer sound is called "chirping", and it's ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. Are you wondering how a bird got in your house? [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09wyzo6kyF8 Nope, it's your guinea pig]]. |
| 551 | * An editor on Cracked.com mentioned that while red foxes are cute, their calls are ''hideous''. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnPW05Q8hQQ Behold.]] |
| 552 | ** Fishers make [[https://youtu.be/n-GcSbwYRgw similar sounds]] (to the point that they're often mistaken for foxes and vice-versa) which is startling considering that fishers look like (and technically are) big weasels. |
| 553 | ** Fennec foxes are the [[https://youtu.be/FsgEtNeJ-Ps cutest things on Earth,]] but when [[https://youtu.be/Su3ovMsFXMg they get excited...]] |
| 554 | *** Fennecs make sounds that can sound like something between a solid squeal and a screeching monkey. The scary part is they make this noise when they're ''happy''. |
| 555 | ** [[https://youtu.be/JI8XHKAwPRI This fox]] makes a lot of noise when trying to play with a turtle. |
| 556 | ** [[http://foxdad.com/post/181411594017/bilingual-support-me-on-patreon This joke]] from ''WebComic/FoxDad'' only makes sense if you are familiar with what foxes really sound like. |
| 557 | * Hummingbirds can scream quite loudly when scared. |
| 558 | ** They snore, too. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pj5huCuhD_Q And it sounds ADORABLE.]] |
| 559 | * The banannaquit, a tiny yellow-and-black Caribbean bird with a cute little bandit mask on its face, a pink mouth, and an ear-splitting call, which it shrieks out every waking moment. |
| 560 | * Hedgehogs. [[https://youtu.be/b0s3v-M-ELg No kidding]]. |
| 561 | * The [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_blackbird Eurasian Blackbird]] (not to be confused with American Blackbirds) is a pretty-looking bird, and the males, when they sing during mating season, are well-known for some of nature's most SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic. BUT... both sexes, all-year-long, are notorious for being the {{Nervous Wreck}}s of the bird world, and they are constantly shouting their alarm calls -- which range from a sharp, endlessly repeated "SNIP!!! SNIP!!!" to an ear-piercing, shrill yell. |
| 562 | * The Barn Owl is normally quite a beautiful and elegant-looking bird, but it has a... '''very''' memorable display to scare off predators, [[GameFace puffing up and waving back and forth]] while making [[https://youtu.be/akwc82DOb4k a sound that will haunt your nightmares.]] |
| 563 | ** That screech sounds hellish. [[https://youtu.be/yUEQOEEE3xo This]] vocalization, however, is grating. |
| 564 | * Be very, ''very'' glad that bats' echolocation cries are too high-pitched for human ears to register, or else getting within a yard of most species would put you on the ground. |
| 565 | ** Flying foxes are among the cutest of all bats...and also, [[https://youtu.be/Tt47NTiXg50 among the noisiest]]. And that's just chatter; a genuinely agitated flying fox [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyI7OGjSB0s sounds something like a miniature Tasmanian devil]]. |
| 566 | * The Birds of Paradise, named so because of their stunning plumage, have calls that... fall a bit short of their name. Especially during mating season. |
| 567 | * Hamsters are usually very quiet but can be pretty noisy when angry or frightened. You'd expect a hamster to squeak like a rat or mouse, right? [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNfqZKrs7MA Wrong!]] |
| 568 | * Tree hyraxes look like the lovable lovechild of a love triangle between a small dog, a guinea pig, and a bear. Their nocturnal call is comparable to the screams of a human woman undergoing prolonged physical torture. |
| 569 | * Many members of the deer family fall into this trope: |
| 570 | ** White-tailed and mule deer. Fawns, at least, can be ''very'' loud when crying out. |
| 571 | ** The mighty elk/wapiti. Cute when young, majestic symbol of the North American wilds when an adult. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lM_I0BOGjkM The bugle of a stag in rut]] is a metallic soprano squeal that sounds downright alien. |
| 572 | ** The chital (A.K.A. spotted deer or axis deer) of southern Asia emits a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YteOlNwkuA falsetto bark]] when it senses danger. |
| 573 | * Ocelots are beautiful felines. When excited, they make a sound that resembles an [[https://youtu.be/HlsA-BszHMI angry zombie.]] Makes more sense when you consider purring on housecats, and then ramp it up accordingly. |
| 574 | ** Cheetahs and pumas are the two largest of the small cats and can't roar. Both, on average, outweigh a leopard (which can roar) and are several times more massive than an ocelot. Both cheetahs and pumas can purr and, when a tame one is petted by a human they are comfortable with, their purrs sound like a very loud and never-ending low pitch growl. |
| 575 | ** Pumas are also infamous for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxo8X5uIWRE their screech]], which has been compared to the sound of a woman screaming. |
| 576 | * When they roost wherever they are not wanted, barn swallows. Their chirping while dive bombing any threats, real or perceived, is not only annoying but can be downright scary at times. |
| 577 | * The Potoo is a quirky, sometimes [[FishEyes goggle-eyed]] bird that can nonetheless can pull off [[http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LK_T1Gb3y1s/UuRXAJdn75I/AAAAAAAAIv0/4D-mL67oUeo/s1600/Potoo+with+limited+golden+eye+section,+Barnorama.jpg some pretty darn effective]] PuppyDogEyes. Its loud, hoarse, almost alien call [[http://ibc.lynxeds.com/sound/great-potoo-nyctibius-grandis/call sounds like a terrified baboon being strangled.]] |
| 578 | * While male mallards are usually quiet, females quack rather loudly, especially if there's more than 3 of them. |
| 579 | ** Geese, too, are also capable of making loud honking noises that some people think of as a nuisance. Like guinea fowl, geese were also used as guard birds for their loud honking as well as their aggression towards intruders. |
| 580 | ** The call duck is a small breed of duck originally bred to be used in hunting as a kind of living decoy. They're adorable and mild-tempered, so these days they're kept as pets. But true to their name, having been selectively bred to attract wild ducks, their calls are shrill and ''loud''. |
| 581 | * Adult pigeons make soft cooing noises that can be considered soothing, but the same can't be said for pigeon nestlings, who make high-pitched squealing noises that can be heard from a tall tree or even a building. |
| 582 | * The Great Kiskadee. The sound it makes is not unlike a squeaky toy, only ''much'' louder. |
| 583 | * [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rufous-vented_chachalaca Rufous-vented Cachalacas,]] or guacharacas as they're commonly known. They look rather cute if a bit silly at times. And then they start belting out a call that sounds like a cross between an angry parrot and a hacksaw (depending on the area, there'll be more of one or the other) that can be heard over a mile away. Worse, they like to start at around 5 AM. |
| 584 | * North American porcupines can get pretty talkative when [[https://youtu.be/DZaRTAoGelQ they're eating]] [[https://youtu.be/pBBEzsGOq9w or upset.]] [[https://youtu.be/2XJUPCy1guw Especially the babies.]] |
| 585 | * The White Bellbird may look fairly cute, and definitely silly with the little thing that hangs from its beak at all times. It is ''the'' loudest bird alive, however, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvK-DujvpSY with its call sounding like some manner of prison alarm]]. It regularly hits 125 dB this way, twelve decibels quieter than a [[Main/SonicStunner Long Range Acoustic Device]], which is more than enough to cause pain and hearing damage to human ears; it's suspected the females of the species may be partially deaf from exposure. |
| 586 | * The [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin screaming hairy armadillo]] is a chubby little lump of an animal that sounds, when disturbed, like a distorted one-second clip of a really angry cat [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPuOQxJOqh0 stuck on repeat]]. |
| 587 | * Three-toed sloths are normally silent and cute, but during mating season females [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLzQk13JBMM&ab_channel=fluttershypony produce loud high-pitched screams]] as mating calls. |
| 588 | * Bluejays. They look like little songbirds, but they're actually more closely related to crows and ravens. They don't sing, or even caw; they ''scream.'' |
| 589 | * Baby elephants (both African and Asian) are very cute, but like adult elephants they can produce a loud roar that some have likened to the noise a dinosaur might make. |
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