Line #70 Main/GaleForceSound


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6	Anyone with a basic knowledge of physics knows [[http://www.mediacollege.com/audio/01/sound-waves.html how sound waves work]]. Anyone who's been up close to the stage of a rock concert can tell how well they work when it gets loud.
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8	This, though, is that feeling taken [[BeyondTheImpossible beyond what's possible in real life]]. A sound or series of sounds, if sufficiently loud, will push someone or something around as would the wind of a hurricane or tornado, well beyond what would happen in the RealLife. This trope is almost always [[RuleOfFunny played for laughs]], but the RuleOfCool has it weaponized now and then as a [[MakeSomeNoise type of non-standard elemental damage]] combining aspects of BlowYouAway, GlassShatteringSound, and ExplosionPropulsion.
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10	Note, however, that this doesn't cover sounds that are genuinely that loud, like a rocket launch, nor does it cover giant monsters like Franchise/{{Godzilla}} or Film/KingKong roaring in someone's face, where their breath would come into play.
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12	In RealLife, sounds loud enough to move objects are above decibel level 194. At this level, they are no longer sound waves moving ''through'' the air so much as they are shock waves pushing the air along in front of them. You don't want to be anywhere near a place where this trope is happening in real life. It's not a gale, it's a battering ram.
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14	Contrast this trope to BrownNote and LoudOfWar, where the sound has a purely psychological effect on the target, as opposed to the physical effect of gale-force sound. See also GlassShatteringSound, where the effect is limited to glass. SuperScream has a similar effect, but only caused by a person's voice, and it's less frequently used for comedy, and MusicalAssassin, who may use their music for this effect (but just as likely play BrownNote music).
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17	!!Examples:
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22	* The famous [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgrJEpUqSuw "Blown Away Guy"]] Maxell tape commercial from 1980. Also done in print form (and in the UK, the guy listening to the music is Music/PeterMurphy!).
23	* [[https://vimeo.com/241028200 One of a series of idents for UK Channel 4.]]
24	* Some Brazilian ads from TheEighties for a Philco stereo has this happening to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnWSLLYf1Gc (CGI) ants]]. The second ad has them ''wearing F-1 helmets''.
25	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YCk0DXqNQA A 2001 ad for Computer Associates]] has a bunch of roosters gathering in New York City to crow all at once, creating a sound shockwave that blows away everything in its path.
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28	[[folder:Asian Animation]]
29	* In Season 7 episode 20 of ''Animation/HappyHeroes'', Ambassador Wang screams at Big M. and Little M. loudly enough to blow them to a nearby tree.
30	* One episode of ''Animation/MotuPatlu'' features a scene where Motu gives such a loud whistle that it blows his friends and various objects (including ''cars'') away like in a bad windstorm.
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33	[[folder:Comic Books]]
34	* ''ComicBook/TheFlash'': Jay Garrick, the original Flash, is fond of using his signature winged helmet as a weapon. One of the methods is to "aim" the inside of it at someone and then punch the top of it, creating a loud sonic boom.
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38	* ''ComicStrip/BabyBlues'': In the [[https://www.gocomics.com/babyblues/1990/02/24 February 24th, 1990]] strip, Wanda turns the baby monitor's volume up before going to bed. When baby Zoe burps in the middle of the night, the ensuing blast of sound makes Wanda, Darryl, and their blanket go flying.
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41	[[folder:FanWorks]]
42	* ''FanFic/AChanceMeetingOfTwoMoons'': Artemis's Royal Canterlot Voice is sufficient to knock Solaris backward during an argument.
43	* ''FanFic/EscapeFromTheMoon'': In the sequel ''The Mare From the Moon'', Twilight manages to send Spliced Genome flying by the sheer force of the Royal Canterlot Voice when she gets angry at Spliced [[spoiler: saying she'd ''abused'' Spike by the way she raised him not to horde.]]
44	* ''FanFic/TheBridge'': Xenilla roaring in Tempest Shadow's face causes her to go unconscious and go flying backwards. Justified as he is a 100+ meter tall kaiju emptying the entire capacity of his lungs directly in front of her.
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47	[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
48	* ''WesternAnimation/AsterixVersusCaesar'': Asterix and Obelix get into an argument in a Roman bathhouse on opposite sides of a curtain in a doorway, which flaps in and out as the two shout at each other.
49	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Migration}}'': When Chump first makes her presence known, she yells loud enough to create a powerful gust of wind.
50	* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsRainbowRocks'': When Rainbow Dash repeats "my band" [[RunningGag one time too many]], all the other Rainbooms (except Twilight Sparkle) yelling "''OUR'' BAND!" together is enough to blow Dash's hair back.
51	* Zigzagged with the Scream-Scream Devil Fruit in ''Anime/OnePieceTheMovie''; lore-wise, it lets the user, BigBad El Drago, scream so loudly that it hits like a turbo-charged battering ram, punching through whatever is in the screamer's way. However, it's visually depicted as just a generic energy blast that happens to be [[BreathWeapon launched from the user's mouth]].
52	* ''WesternAnimation/OverTheHedge'': During a heist, one of the porcupine kids accidentally turns on a TV, which plays the infamous THX Deep Note. He slides backward as if he were in a wind tunnel, and a few quills are blown off his head, narrowly missing RJ and Verne.
53	* In ''WesternAnimation/TheRescuersDownUnder'', Wilbur is playing loud music and can't hear Bernard and Miss Bianca calling him. As Bernard walks over to Wilbur's boom box to turn it off, he is clearly being blown back by the sound.
54	* ''WesternAnimation/RockAndRule'': a case of mistaken identity on Omar's part culminates with Zip, one of [[BigBad Mok's]] DumbMuscle trio, yelling in his face "I'M NOT MOK!!!" loud enough to blow Omar's hair back. It echoes, too.
55	* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSwordInTheStone'', after being crowned King of England, an overwhelmed Arthur tries to sneak out of the castle. Unfortunately, every way he goes he [[OpenTheDoorAndSeeAllThePeople encounters a huge crowd of cheering subjects]] who blow him and Archimedes the owl back inside with their cries of "HAIL KING ARTHUR! LONG LIVE THE KING!"
56	* ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory1'': During the "Strange Things" sequence, Rex learns how to properly roar like a dinosaur and blows Potato Head's accessories off his face.
57	* In ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'', Ming's shouting as a giant red panda is powerful enough to momentarily knock Mei off balance.
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60	[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
61	* Near the beginning of the first ''Film/BackToTheFuture1'', Marty hooks up an electric guitar to a ludicrously huge speaker. He plays a single chord and is physically hurled backwards by the sound (the speaker is destroyed in the process).
62	* ''Film/KungFuHustle'' features the Harpists, two villains who fight their opponents by playing a guqin (Chinese zither) that makes sounds loud enough to knock people down. This is easily topped by the Landlady's "Lion's Roar" technique, which shakes buildings and cracks stone columns. When this fails to affect the Beast, the BigBad of the story, her husband helps her rip the top off a funeral bell and holds it up for her to use as a megaphone. The result is a sonic tornado that reduces the room to splinters, with the Beast becoming a rapidfire participant in OhCrap and BlownAcrossTheRoom. This does hurt the Beast, and when she moves in to give him a second dose, he promptly surrenders. [[spoiler: [[ISurrenderSuckers NOT.]]]]
63	* ''Film/LostInAHarem'': While Peter and Harvey are sleeping in a tent with a bunch of Prince Ramo's followers, one of them snores loudly enough that he keeps blowing another man's beard in Harvey's face. Even tying a bag of weights to the beard can't stop it from being blown over.
64	* Near the end of ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesIITheSecretOfTheOoze'', Mike and Don blow Shredder out a window by turning the speaker he's standing in front of at maximum and hitting a power chord.
65	* In ''Film/CheechAndChongsNextMovie'', Cheech has a devil of a time getting inside his own home when Chong's playing a solo. Chong's playing also blows playing cards away, causes dogs to cover their ears, and makes neighbors take cover.
66	* In ''Film/TheItalianJob2003'', [[InsistentTerminology The Napster]] wants a stereo so loud "it'll blow a woman's clothes off." The end credits show him carefully positioning an attractive woman in front of his new stereo...
67	* ''Film/BedknobsAndBroomsticks'': '''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis STOP! THAT!]]''' '''''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis BAAAAAAAALLLL!!!"]]'''''
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70	[[folder:Literature]]
71	* ''Literature/GelsominoInTheLandOfLiars'': Gelsomino's voice is extremely loud all the time. When he actually tries to make it loud, this trope ensues. At one point, his singing demolishes an opera theatre like a hurricane would.
72	* ''Literature/GoblinsInTheCastle'': Played for laughs in ''Goblins on the Prowl'' -- when Fauna enters the room where Bwoonhiwda is sleeping, the latter's snoring is loud enough to almost knock Fauna back out the door.
73	* ''Literature/UniversalMonsters'': In the final battle of book 2, the Wolf Man is able to blow Nina, Joe and Captain Bob to the ground just by barking and sending a powerful wind at them.
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77	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
78	* ''Series/BlackBooks'': Manny bets Bernard that he can sell a book to the next person to enter the shop; he tries it, but doesn't even get as far as "hello" before the customer unleashes a furious rant about not wanting to be pestered by salespeople in shops, the force of which blows Manny's hair back.
79	* ''Series/TheRedGreenShow'': In one "Handyman Corner" sketch, Red gets annoyed by a neighborhood punk driving around blasting grunge music out the windows, and sets out to retaliate. He does so by building a gigantic speaker for his own radio that fills the entire side door of a van, powered by every amplifier he could find all wired in series. The resulting rendition of the Washington Post March is so loud that it actually overturns the punk's car, as well as shaking apart a nearby shed.
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82	[[folder:Music]]
83	* The video to the Music/{{Nickelback}} song "Gotta Be Somebody" demonstrates the trope nicely, with cracks in the ground and general earthquakes accompanying the refrain each time.
84	* Music/{{Manowar}} have slipped the occasional line about getting this loud into their song lyrics, perhaps most prominently in "The Gods Made Heavy Metal".
85	* In the video of the Music/LindseyStirling song "Roundtable Rival", the guitarist's amplifiers are able to blow down Linsdey and her backup dancers. Lindsey uses the same amplifiers to even greater effect against the guitarist when she plugs in her Stroh violin.
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88	[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
89	* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' 4th and 5th Edition have Thunder damage, which was known as Sonic damage in 3rd edition (the change was to make it sound more fantasy and less science fiction). Many spells and effects that cause Thunder damage also have the effect of knocking the target away from the caster, like the first level wizard, sorcerer, and Tempest cleric spell Thunderwave. In the 5E supplement ''Fizban's Treasury of Dragons'', the Metallic Dragonborn subrace has breath weapon option that can shove people away.
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93	* ''VideoGame/BrutalLegend'' has the Earthshaker move, which causes Eddie to do a power chord on his guitar that damages nearby enemies and sends them flying.
94	* ''Videogame/SpaceAce'' has Kimberly do this ''over videophone''
95	* ''VideoGame/VisceraCleanupDetail'': Among the game's normal in game radio "the big banger" which appears on every level, The game also has one unique "The Bigbanger: Supernova Edition" in game radio. While the bigbanger sound players are described by in game documents as a model that has won a contest by having "Earth-shattering" loudness, the normal Bigbanger radios players encounter simply produce sufficient sound to broadcast music throughout the level and shakes itself while doing so. The "Supernova" edition of the player, however, can produce music that is obviously louder than any in game sound effect, at the same time shaking every object in the area, sends all the small objects in the vicinity flying, setting all the flares alight, detonating any dynamite within medium range, and shakes the bucket machines and bin machines in to producing buckets and bins.
96	* The Killer Wail from the original ''VideoGame/{{Splatoon\|1}}'' exhibits this effect, but only against entities who have [[DeflectorShield deployed a Bubbler]] or [[SuperMode transformed into a Kraken]], due to the invincibility effect provided by those. It is impossible to tell if this effect works on normal Inklings, [[BrownNote typically because they do not last long enough]].
97	* ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'': The infamous ''Unrelenting Force'', one of the first Dragon Shouts you learn, is capable of blowing people in front of you backwards into the air at full power. Indeed, one of the easiest ways to kill most enemies (up to and including some ''bosses'') is to just [[NotTheFallThatKillsYou punt them off the nearest cliff]].
98	--> Fus... Ro ''[[BlownAcrossTheRoom Dah!]]''
99	* Invoked in ''VideoGame/NeoTheWorldEndsWithYou'': Sound is one of the elements that psychs can possess, and Gale Force is the name of a psych, of which the stronger ones available before the credits roll ''are'' in fact Sound-elemental.
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102	[[folder:Web Comics]]
103	* ''Webcomic/TheWhiteboard'': [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb024.html Doc using new speakers]]
104	* ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'': [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2010-04-17 "If you want to really yell at somebody, Doctor, do it from the diaphragm."]]
105	* ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent'': In [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1566 A Very Sweet-Tits New Year Part 1]].
106	* ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'':
107	** Sarah was really upset about that {{catgirl}} [[JugglingLoadedGuns incident]]... [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2005-12-02 could you tell?]]
108	** And now another young lady [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2011-04-22 joins the Sonic Boom Club]]!
109	* In a parody of the Maxell ad mentioned elsewhere, in ''Webcomic/CoachRandom'' a character turns on an [[http://coachrandom.zzl.org/Chronological/comic-020.xml uberstereo]] and gets blasted completely out of his seat.
110	* ''Webcomic/{{Freefall}}'': In [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff2400/fc02305.htm this strip]], Mr. Raibert gets a demonstration on the improvements in small speakers over time, getting blasted by a shouting Max Post over the phone, in a ShoutOut to the old Maxell cassette ad demonstrating this trope.
111	* Double subverted in ''Webcomic/SWAPEnsemble''. Cassie opens the band room door during a trumpet sectional, leading to everyone behind her getting blown away. It turns out to be the result of MagicMusic from one individual. The next day, Claire opens the door during a trombone sectional and falls victim to the same chaos. There is explicitly no MagicMusic this time around.
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114	[[folder:Western Animation]]
115	* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes.'' This happens '''A LOT'''.
116	** "Draft Horse": The doctor tells the titular horse to [[ExactWords say 'ahh'.]] The result: the horse screamed so loud and strong it was like wind blowing intensely in front of the doctor's face.
117	* ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'':
118	** In "Captain Hardrock", [[TheRockStar Luka]] turns up his amp loud enough to flip cars with a single power chord. [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome This results in]] [[PoliceAreUseless Officer Roger]] [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome paying a visit to the Couffaines' houseboat]].
119	** In "Party Crasher", [[BlackAndNerdy Max]] and his RobotBuddy Markov reroute all the power in [[BigFancyHouse Adrien's mansion]] to the speakers in his room, which also flips cars out on the street, [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome and once again gets the police involved]].
120	* In an early episode of ''WesternAnimation/MuppetBabies1984'', the kids are trying to get Baby Beaker used to the dark. Their first attempt (with a dark corner) ends with Baby Beaker screeching in fear so loud, Baby Fozzie's ears and tie go flying.
121	* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheMysteriesOfAlfredHedgehog'', Cynthia's yelling makes Camille's pigtails flutter backwards.
122	* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'':
123	** In "Squid on Strike", when Squidward yells at [=SpongeBob=] through a megaphone when he inadvertently lets a scab worker cross the picket line and take his old job. The sound is so loud it blows his face back and knocks out his facial features.
124	--->'''Squidward:''' Attention, [=SpongeBob!=] '''''You are a terrible striker!!!'''''
125	** Near the end of "Good Neighbors", Squidward screams to [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick: '''''"[[GetOut Get out of my house!!!]]'''''"; it's so loud it even ''blows the two away.''
126	** "Kracked Krabs" has a similar face-blowing effect occur in the Krusty Krab kitchen when Mr. Krabs yells '''''"[=SpongeBoooooob=]!!!!"''''' through the intercom to summon him to his office.
127	* In ''WesternAnimation/StrawberryShortcake'', before Berrykin Bloom started taking lessons his bassoon-playing shook the ground, to the point of knocking people over.
128	* In the ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'' mini-episode featuring Punk Rocket, Punk Rocket's guitar playing acts like this.
129	** Another episode has a downplayed example where Beast Boy and Cyborg are arguing continually and in attempts to drown-out the noise, Robin has a boombox playing music loud enough to make his hair get pushed back with every beat.
130	* Blaster in ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformers'' often used sound like this to attack, as opposed to Soundwave, who was more of a BrownNote user. At one point, he uses a pair of amplifiers to shake an entire building down.
131	* From ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'', there's the rock battle between Optimus Prime and Soundwave, in "Human Error, Part 2".
132	* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'':
133	** Happens in [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E18TheShowStoppers "The Show Stoppers"]] when the Cutie Mark Crusaders sing the line "VERY LOUD!!!"
134	** In the episode [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E4LunaEclipsed "Luna Eclipsed"]], Princess Luna, using the Royal Canterlot Voice, has this effect.
135	** [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E19PuttingYourHoofDown "Putting Your Hoof Down"]]: Fluttershy does this ''three times''; when she screams ''"'''NOPONY!!!'''"'' at the end of her rant before leaving town, again when she says to her little critters friends "Am I '''RIGHT??!!'''", and ''again'' when she exclaims to Rarity and Pinkie Pie that [[ThatManIsDead Old!Fluttershy]] is ''"'''GONE!!'''"''
136	** [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E7WonderboltsAcademy "Wonderbolts Academy"]]: The sheer force of the sound from Pinkie Pie's oversized megaphone ''moves mountains''.
137	** [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E4DaringDont "Daring Don't"]]: In Rainbow Dash's recalling of Daring Do's adventure in the intro, Ahuizotl's roar sends Daring Do tumbling backward in a very strong wind.
138	** [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E22TestingTesting123 "Testing Testing 1, 2, 3"]]: Rainbow Dash's scream of "Enough!" has this effect on her friends, instantly putting a stop to their bickering.
139	** [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS6E1TheCrystallingPart1 The Crystalling - Part 1]]: After Flurry Heart is separated from Pinkie, she lets out a booming wail so loud, it rattles the ponies present and blows their manes back, just moments before breaking the Crystal Heart.
140	** [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS7E4RockSolidFriendship "Rock Solid Friendship"]]: After a failed attempt to pass Tank the tortoise off as a rare rock, Pinkie Pie yells "''Whose side are you on, Tank?!''" loud enough to send him flying off-screen.
141	%%* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' parodied the Maxell ad , [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=m2RZmYH9zoE here.]]
142	* In a ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'' Quickie, Roy and Lanolin get into a bleating-and-bukawking fight, which Roy wins utilizing a huge BehindTheBlack stereo system that sends Lanolin flying quite a distance in front of a WraparoundBackground.
143	* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Wakfu}}'' episode "The Black Raven", Miranda yelling for her husband Kabrok blows back Amalia's hair.
144	* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'': In "Little Ed Blue", a grouchy Ed reaches the breaking point and yells '''''"BIG TROUBLE!!!"''''' loud enough to knock Edd over and rip Eddy's shirt off.
145	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'': Mr. Cat can yell loud enough to send a car (with Kaeloo and Stumpy inside) flying several feet away.
146	* In the WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck short ''Donald's Dream Voice'', Donald drops one of his voice pills and it lands on the hat of a large brute. When Donald tries to ask him for it, he yells ''"WHADDYA WANT?!"'' fierce enough to blow Don away.
147	* Happened to Dave Seville in an episode of WesternAnimation/AlvinAndTheChipmunks, also strong enough to [[ThereWasADoor cause the wall to break]].
148	* ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventuresHowISpentMyVacation'': Fowlmouth takes Shirley on a date to the movies, and the ridiculously loud "sound system promo" blows several audience members out of their seats.
149	-->'''THUD'''\
150	A division of Mucasfilm Ltd.\
151	"The audience is now deaf"
152	* ''WesternAnimation/OKKOLetsBeHeroes'': In "My Fair Carol", Enid puts on some romantic mood music for Carol and Mr. Gar's date, but she plays it so loud Carol has to shout so Mr. Gar can hear her. She ends up shouting loud enough to knock over not only Mr. Gar, but Rad, K.O., and Enid who are way over on a nearby hill.
153	-->'''Enid:''' [[DeadpanSnarker Your mom's got pipes, K.O.]]
154	* ''WesternAnimation/ThePatrickStarShow'':
155	** In "[[Recap/ThePatrickStarShowS1E21ThePatrickShowSellsOutNeptunesBall Neptune's Ball]]", Squidina turns up a DJ's music so loud that it blows the skin off everyone in the room.
156	** In "[[Recap/ThePatrickStarShowS2E7ChumBucketListBigBabyPatrick Chum Bucket List]]", [=SpongeBob=] screams so loud that the sheer volume of it pushes a building into a neighboring city.
157	* ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'': In ''The Bodyguard'', Tom feeds Jerry some bubblegum so he won't be able to whistle for Spike to come beat him up. When Jerry tries to whistle, he ends up blowing a ''huge'' bubble that, when it pops, unleashes a wind that blows Tom (and a fence he's standing in front of) away.
158	* In the 1937 Disney short ''WesternAnimation/MickeysAmateurs'', Clara Cluck attempts to perform a vocal rendition of Luigi Arditi's "Il Bacio", but the force of her voice blows the microphone back and forth like a pendulum. She tries running back and forth to keep up with it, which just makes it swing further.
159	* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' did an exact shot for shot copy of the Maxell advertisement using Lois' dad Carter all the way down to catching his martini glass as the sound slowly blew it towards the end of the little table.
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162	[[folder:Real Life]]
163	* There exists [[https://youtu.be/tX6XSs2T5Go a smartphone app that emits a sound]] with a frequency low enough to exploit the fact that "exhaled" air is pushed in a more focused direction than "inhaled" air, and has been used to blow out a candle. However, [[DontTryThisAtHome it puts stress on the device's speaker]], so one's own exhalation is more practical.
164	* As was demonstrated on ''Series/MythBusters'', supersonic aircraft can rattle windows and, in certain circumstances, shatter the glass. There's also the risk of eardrum damage.
165	** This is referenced in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'': Jon reads about the sonic boom, calls Garfield for lunch... and the cat arrives at the speed needed for it to occur and start destroying the kitchen.
166	* The Republic XF-84H test plane had a propeller whose blades turned at supersonic speed. The result was a continuous sonic boom that could damage other aircraft, and was directly responsible for inducing a seizure in an unfortunate ground personnel.
167	* [[Website/{{Wikipedia}} The Other Wiki]] talks about [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma_City_sonic_boom_tests Operation Bongo II]] over Oklahoma City which led to the US halting SST development.
168	* An explosive-driven sonic "[[StupidJetpackHitler Wunderwaffe]]" that could knock down planes was in development in UsefulNotes/NaziGermany. It actually worked, producing waves of sound which were highly destructive -- within a range of about a dozen yards. ''Zurück zum Zeichenbrett!''[[labelnote:translation]]Back to the drawing board!
169	* Pistol shrimp use their claws to form a cavitation bubble that then implodes and stuns or kills their prey with a shockwave.
170	* Dynamite fishing -- illegal in most places -- uses this trope. The shockwaves from a dynamite explosion can be much stronger under water, and will stun all fish in the vicinity.
171	** The Series/MythBusters also found out that [[JustForFun/TropesExaminedByTheMythbusters this is why shooting fish in a barrel is so easy.]] Even if you miss with the bullet itself, the shockwave it creates in the water will kill the fish anyway.
172	* If a pursuing predator catches up to a chicken, the chicken can escape by slapping its wings against its own body. The resulting thunderclap will only disorient its pursuer for a second or two, but that can buy it enough time to get away.
173	* The Chrysler horn (not to be confused with the horn on board Chrysler cars) is a nuclear air raid siren run off of a souped up v8 engine that's designed to warn an entire city from well outside city limits. When cranked up to max volume, these sirens have started fires, broken glass, killed animals, and cause material fatigue to nearby buildings and equipment. The fact that it could start fires with its sound couldn't even be confirmed for almost fifty years, because the sound alone broke the instrumentation needed to confirm this hypothesis (many tried to explain the random grass fires as the siren spewing gasoline due to internal mechanical failures). It can do these things because it has such a large wave amplitude that when the sound collides with an object, it causes a massive vibrations similar to an object at its resonance frequency (only with the Chrysler horn no resonance frequency is needed). These vibrations are then displaced as heat and cause material fatigue, causing stuff to break over time.
174	* Long Range Acoustic Device weapon can send painful sound waves.
175	* 200 decibels can rupture your lungs. Luckily, you ''literally'' need a nuke, or copious amounts of StuffBlowingUp at least, to get that kind of noise. The decibel scale is logarithmic; put simply, to register 10 more decibels requires ''ten times'' the power. To compare, a rifle shot generates about 150dB at point blank. A 200dB sound requires ''100,000 times'' more power, and because of the rapid drop-off only applies at the source. In general, that kind of pressure wave (which is the "loudness" part of the sound) is less a sound, and more of an explosion, and even then anything higher than 190 is hard to achieve because our particular atmosphere doesn't really assist much.
176	** The [[https://nautil.us/the-sound-so-loud-that-it-circled-the-earth-four-times-235101/ 1883 eruption of Krakatoa]] produced a sound so loud that it crossed the Earth over seven times, could be heard from over 3000 miles away, and retained a volume of at least 180 decibels 100 miles away from the source. Given the sheer force of the eruption, Krakatoa is almost certainly the loudest sound ever produced in modern history.
177	* Some children's entertainers invoke this trope after asking the kids to yell as loud as they can: during the scream, the entertainers throw themselves against a wall as if being against a very strong wind.
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