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9->''"Oh, boy. Here comes an evil asthmatic.''"
10-->-- '''Tom Servo''', ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'', on a scene from ''[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S04E05BeingFromAnotherPlanet Being From Another Planet]]''
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12''[[SelfDemonstratingArticle SSSHHH HOHHHHHH...]]'' There is something particularly creepy about wheezy or labored breathing. ''...SSSSHHHHH'' Unnatural breathing can characterize someone as being''...HOHHHHHHH'' unnatural, or less than human. As a result, ''...SSSSHHSH'' this sort of breathing is often given to ''...HOHHHHHHHHHHHHH'' evil characters. This has been particularly true since 1977, when the {{Trope Namer|s}} Darth Vader first appeared in [[Film/ANewHope film]]. Ideally, the creepy breathing is combined with some sort of ''...HOHHHHHHH'' creepy voice, and an EvilLaugh ''cough''. Sometimes the creepy breathing is justified by some sort of disfiguring accident, which gives the evil character a [[RedRightHand creepy appearance]] as well.
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14!!Examples:
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17[[folder:Trope Namer (Darth Vader and related examples)]]
18* ''Franchise/StarWars'':
19** Darth Vader. Weirdly, the breathing never stops, even when he's talking. This is most apparent at the very end of ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'', when Vader's yelling "[[BigNo Noooo...]]" According to ''Literature/DarkLordTheRiseOfDarthVader'', his vocal cords and lungs are both only barely usable and he [[WeCanRebuildHim relies on an artificial life support system built in his suit]], and the constant asthmatic breathing is a constant mechanical pump supplying oxygen, while his speech is heavily amplified to make it louder than a whisper. In ''Literature/ShadowsOfTheEmpire'' we see that he can use TheDarkSide of the Force to briefly heal and breathe on his own, but only for a moment, and then his sudden joy at being able to do that breaks his Dark Side focus. There were plans to give Vader a [[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Darth_Vader%27s_armor#cite_ref-DSn_43-0 new suit]] that would remove several of the problems mentioned above. Too bad the procedure put his life at serious risk -- specifically, the previous suit would have to be removed, including the oxygen pump. ''Revenge of the Sith'' shows Vader getting his suit, allowing us to hear his first iconic breaths. In fact, due to the smoke in front of the mask, we also get to ''see'' them.
20** General Grievous has a rather nasty sounding hacking cough, which George Lucas has stated is deliberate {{Foreshadowing}} that [[spoiler:Anakin will turn into Darth Vader, with Obi-Wan fighting both]]. In the Canon continuity, he always had it, while in the ''Legends'' continuity, he only gained it shortly before ''Revenge of the Sith'' from when [[WesternAnimation/StarWarsCloneWars Mace Windu made his chest implode]].
21** By the events of ''Film/RogueOne'', Saw Guerrera relies on a breathing mask which makes this sound, though he doesn't need to use it constantly. Similar to Grievous, Saw's case is to reflect on how his radical tactics [[NotSoDifferentRemark make him no different from the Empire.]] [[spoiler: Also used by the trope namer himself in the climax, to the most terrifying possible effect.]]
22** Also used in ''VideoGame/StarWarsJediFallenOrder'' [[spoiler:to signify Vader's arrival as the FinalBoss]].
23** The series finale of ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'' [[spoiler:also uses it to reveal his presence in the final scene of the series.]]
24** In a bit of cruel irony, this iconic sound would become HarsherInHindsight after Creator/DavidProwse, the first actor to wear the Vader suit, passed away on November 28th, 2020 due to UsefulNotes/COVID19 complications.
25* Almost any [[{{Expy}} parody of Vader]], including the ones done by ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' and ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark,'' must include Vader Breath. Conversely, if a character on a show such as these suddenly develops Vader Breath, it ''becomes'' a parody of Vader.
26* Parodied in ''Film/{{Spaceballs}}''. And the RuleOfFunny helps cover the fact that, as stated above, Vader can't breathe OUTSIDE of his suit. Dark Helmet didn't ''need'' his helmet to survive, he just wore it because [[CompensatingForSomething it was sooooo big.]]
27--> "I can't breathe in this thing!"
28* The German sci-fi parody ''(T)raumschiff Surprise''[[note]]It's a German language joke. "Raumschiff" is German for spaceship. "Traum" is German for dream[[/note]] has a Vader-like character who is merely asthmatic. No mask, but he needs to use his puffer a lot.
29* In the brief moment he is described as "Darth Valer" in ''Fanfic/MyImmortal'', [[Franchise/HarryPotter Voldermort]]'s quote has ellipsis and is described as having "a raspy voice", meaning that Tara Gillesbie ''intentionally'' drew attention to this. It's an underappreciated piece of evidence that the whole thing is a TrollFic.
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33* Yashiro Chikama in ''Literature/AdachiAndShimamura'' breathes very loudly during her time in her space suit, especially in the anime. [[ItMakesSenseInContext When her human form is ready]], she takes off the space suit and loses the loud, labored breathing.
34* Kuma in ''Anime/AfroSamurai'', until his helmet is torn or knocked off.
35* Jagi of ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar'' is also given this, as a result of the damage inflicted by Kenshiro in their first battle.
36* Death Gun in ''Literature/SwordArtOnline's'' second season has this going on with his skull mask.
37* Bui from ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'', until he removes his [[PowerLimiter armor]].
38* Pia Decem in ''[[Anime/GaoGaiGarFINAL GaoGaiGar Final]]'', since he doesn't talk, this is the only sound he makes.
39* Anyone who put on Majo's gas mask in ''Manga/WastefulDaysOfHighSchoolGirls'' gets this in the anime, along with muffled voices.
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43* ''Fanfic/AbraxasHrodvitnon'': In this ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'' fanfiction; by the time Mariko is introduced to [[Characters/AbraxasHrodvitnonMonsterX Monster X]], the deformed monster's breathing has been reduced to labored wheezing by dehydration.
44* ''Fanfic/ThisBites'': [[spoiler: Shiliew of the Rain's]] dialogue is regularly interspersed with a wheezing, mechanical ''Pshhh-koh'' noise, courtesy of him being turned into a {{cyborg}} after [[spoiler: Crocodile tears most of his limbs off and sucks all the moisture out of his body.]]
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48* ''WesternAnimation/MarsNeedsMoms'': Gribble imitates the breathing.
49* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyANewGeneration'': At one point Sprout is hiding in the shadows and he appears to be breathing heavily but as soon as he steps out into the light its revealed he's just drinking a smoothie.
50* ''Franchise/ToyStory'':
51** In the first film, Buzz's breathing when he first appears on the bed and we see from inside his helmet.
52** The opening of ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory2'' uses the real Vader sound, along with some other ''Franchise/StarWars'' and ''[[Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay Terminator 2]]'' sound effects in and around Zurg's base.
53* In ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph'', Ralph does this when using a ReedSnorkel.
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56[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
57* Non-villainous (but still damn creepy) example: the astronauts' heavy breathing in their spacesuits in ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey''.
58* In ''Film/AllQuietOnTheWesternFront2022'', this effect is produced when the soldiers have to put on their gas masks. It is unsettling and underlines [[WarIsHell the horror of war]].
59* ''Film/TheBatman2022'': The Riddler affects a low, gravelly voice and has some audible difficulty breathing. In scenes from his POV, the raspy breath is a persistent part of the background noise. [[spoiler:This is presumably due to his mask, as he doesn't seem to have any trouble breathing in Arkham, where he doesn't have it.]]
60* Bane in ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises''. He couldn't breath at all once Batman damaged his mask, due to his tracheal chords being damaged.
61* One of the casualties in ''Film/DogSoldiers'' realized that there was a werewolf behind him [[spoiler: in the back seat of the truck]] due to its heavy breathing, then had his suspicions confirmed when a rush of exhaled vapors flowed past his shoulder. Oh, and also when it ripped him to shreds.
62* In Creator/BlakeEdwards' suspense-thriller ''Experiment in Terror,'' the psycho stalking Lee Remick has an asthmatic rasp for a voice.
63* ''Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial'': The men in their hazmat suits invading the house are breathing like this.
64* The version of Cobra Commander (known as "[[MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate The Doctor]]" before he assumes his famous title) from ''Film/GIJoeTheRiseOfCobra''.
65* Done for laughs in ''Film/TheGraduate'', when Benjamin's demonstrating the scuba outfit his parents gave him.
66* In ''Film/TheGrudge 3'', [[spoiler:Naoko]] makes raspy, gurgling breathing noises after she becomes a StringyHairedGhostGirl, thanks to being [[spoiler:stabbed through the throat]].
67* Michael Myers in the ''Franchise/{{Halloween}}'' movies achieves this sound by breathing heavily through his cheap rubber mask.
68* ''Film/HarryPotter'': The Dementors breathe quite heavily, as a sign of them [[EmotionEater inhaling people's happy feelings]]. This is consistent with the books, where in Harry's first encounter with one, it is described as "[drawing] slow, rattling breath, as though it were trying to suck something more than air from its surroundings."
69* ''Film/Hellboy2004'': After Hellboy resurrects a long-dead Russian man named Ivan, the guy has to breathe in to speak and does so with a large wheeze.
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71* Saddam Hussein does this (Along with a Vader impersonation) in ''Film/HotShotsPartDeux'', before succumbing to a coughing fit. After a drag on his inhaler, he's back to normal.
72* The appropriately named Wheezy Joe in ''Film/IntolerableCruelty''.
73* ''Film/JamesBond'':
74** ''Film/ForYourEyesOnly'': When Bond is about to be attacked underwater by an enemy diver in a JIM suit, all we see is a POV shot accompanied by the sound of the air regulator.
75** ''Film/NoTimeToDie'': Lyutsifer Safin's respiration (likely because of exhaustion after a long walk) under his Noh mask in the DistantPrologue makes him even more sinister as he comes to the home of Mr. White in Norway to kill him, his wife and his young daughter Madeleine.
76* Referenced in ''Film/{{Jarhead}}''. During a gas mask drill, one of the solders can't help but breathe extra-deeply and throw a few Vader lines.
77* [[EvilOverlord Immortan Joe]] in ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad.'' WordOfGod states that his respirator is actually just to filter out sand, worn out of habit ever since he was young and healthy, and his labored breathing (and sore-covered body) are just results of [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome being an old man living in a post-nuclear wasteland.]]
78* The thing that haunts Lucie in ''Film/{{Martyrs}}''.
79* The gas-mask wearing slasher in ''Film/MyBloodyValentine3D''.
80* Parodied in the second ''Film/NightAtTheMuseum'' film, where the BigBad Kahmunrah recruits historical "bad guys" UsefulNotes/NapoleonBonaparte, UsefulNotes/IvanTheTerrible, and UsefulNotes/AlCapone as his [[TheDragon Dragons]]. Later, two more "bad guys" ask to join them. One is [[Series/SesameStreet Oscar the Grouch]] and the other is Darth Vader, who doesn't say a word. Kahmunrah doesn't get what's so scary about Vader and points out that he sounds as if he's having trouble breathing. Vader tries a Force Choke, further confusing Kahmunrah.
81* The very creepy Pale Man from ''Film/PansLabyrinth.''
82* In ''Film/PhantomOfTheParadise'', Winslow Leach has a freak accident with a record press, severely deforming his face and damaging his vocal cords. He later sneaks into the Paradise, with his own labored breathing imposed over the soundtrack -- predating the {{Trope Namer|s}}, by the way.
83* In ''Film/Quarantine2008'', when the CDC guys enter the building, their gas masks make this noise; it's a little over-the-top.
84* Rippner in ''Film/RedEye'' gets a distinctly wheezy breath after he [[spoiler:[[ImpromptuTracheotomy gets stabbed through the windpipe]] with [[ThePenIsMightier a pen]]]], which would do that to you -- especially if your idea of [[spoiler:medical attention for it is ripping it out with your bare hands and using somebody's silk scarf as a bandage/cravat to buy you some time for the climax of the film]].
85* In ''Film/RevengeOfTheNerds'', the head jock is wearing a helmet and gas mask disguise at the carnival. Louis, the head nerd, "borrows" this disguise to get with the head cheerleader. A perspective shot through the mask has a Vader Breath sound.
86* The opening scene of ''Film/RichardIII'' has the title character leading gasmasked commandos in a raid on the previous King's headquarters. Once the tank smashes through the wall the gun battle is muffled, with the main sound being Richard's breathing through his gas mask up until the moment when he shoots King Henry VI. The script notes that Richard is breathing in iambic pantameter.
87* ''Film/TwinkleTwinkleLittleStar'', being a ''Star Wars'' parody, naturally has their (unnamed) Vader expy exhaling deep breathes like the original. It appears to be a recycled sound effect.
88* Vega in ''Film/StreetFighterTheLegendOfChunLi.''
89* The incarnation of Alien Baltan in ''Film/UltramanCosmosTheFirstContact'' substitutes the iconic Baltanian laugh (oh-ho-ho-ho) with this. Baltan's Vader Breath is in fact the first thing audiences hear as soon as the movie starts.
90* In ''Film/WhenAStrangerCalls'', many of the phone calls made by the titular Stranger consist of his creepy, heavy breathing.
91* Wheezy the weasel from ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'', complete with hacking and coughing, due to his [[GoodSmokingEvilSmoking smoking habits]].
92* ''Film/TheWildGeese''. The mercenaries use [[DeadlyGas cyanide gas]] to [[CombatPragmatist kill a room full of sleeping guards]]. Unfortunately their Vader Breath starts [[SpecialEffectsFailure before the mercenaries have put on their gas masks]]. Nevertheless the laboured breathing of the sleepers suddenly coming to a stop as each dies has a sinister effect.
93* In ''Film/TheWraith'', the title character is TheVoiceless, with this trope as an exception.
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97* Max Barry's ''Literature/MachineMan'' has this for [[spoiler: Dr. Charles Neumann after he's been reduced to a ManInTheMachine]]. Every word he speaks requires another gasp from plastic lungs.
98* In ''Literature/TheWarOfTheWorlds'', Martian breathing is described as "tumultuous," and it's assumed that it's because they're not used to Earth's atmosphere and gravity. Although it might also be [[spoiler: pneumonoa, as they got rip-roaring sick the instant they breathed Earth's air according to the epilogue]].
99* A minor character in the Literature/CiaphasCain novels is severely injured during ''Caves of Ice'', and doctors have to give her a set of augmetic lungs as a result. Every other time she shows up in the series, there's at least one reference to the ''hiss! click!'' noise of her breathing.
100* The ''Fire of Heaven'' series justifies this with the Arkhos of Nemohaim, and immensely fat man who already has breathing trouble and who is usually left wheezing and gasping for air after exerting himself.
101* The Crippled God from ''Literature/MalazanBookOfTheFallen'' has to constantly inhale incense in order to keep his lungs clear. Even then, his breathing is still ragged and wheezing.
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105* An episode of ''Series/That70sShow'' centered on the original release of ''[[Film/ANewHope Star Wars: A New Hope]]'' had Eric punch an asthmatic rival for Donna's affections in the nose; this causes him to speak in a Vader-like voice ("Donna WILL be mine!") and develop the trademark breathing.
106* ''Series/{{CSINY}}'': The villain in "[[Recap/CSINYS06E02 Blacklist]]", who coughs a good bit and uses an oxygen tank, has very labored breathing and speaks quite slowly with a low, raspy voice due to advanced lung cancer.
107* Cheney's cough is played up in [[http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-november-3-2008/indecision-2008---last-day this]] clip on ''Series/TheDailyShow''. Part of their running riff on the evil of the former vice president. They eventually stopped. [[InsultToRocks Vader called and complained]].
108%%* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
109%%** The Ice Warriors.
110%%** So does the Astronaut in "The Impossible Astronaut".
111%%** And older Amy in "The Girl Who Waited".
112* ''Series/GameOfThrones'': Gregor Clegane very noticeably breathes heavily after Qyburn's treatment.
113* ''Series/HenryDanger'': In "Gas or Fail" when Charlotte wears a protective gas mask during Henry's test, she does a heavy high-pitched version of Darth Vader's breathing sound, complete with a similar-sounding distorted voice.
114* ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle''... ... ...
115** The show... has...Malcolm's...friend...Stevie...who has...a really...bad...case...of asthma...and...only...one...lung. His...inability...to say...more than...a couple...words...at a time...is always...played for....laughs...usually...by giving....him....[[OverlyLongGag very....long...lines]]...and having...the other....characters...lose patience...before he's...finished....speaking.
116** And when....he's under...stress...his father...develops...this same...problem.
117%%* William Raines in ''Series/ThePretender''.
118* In ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'', "[[Recap/SherlockS02E02TheHoundsOfBaskerville The Hounds of Baskerville]]" features [[spoiler: the true killer]] breathing heavily through [[spoiler: his red-eyed gas mask.]]
119* EvilCripple [[spoiler:ComicBook/LexLuthor]] in ''Series/{{Smallville}}'''s eighth season suffered from this, due to breathing by means of a respirator.
120%%* Tony Soprano from ''Series/TheSopranos'' had one of these when he got particularly worked up.
121* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': In "[[Recap/SupernaturalS14E05NightmareLogic Nightmare Logic]]", the first sign that Maggie is in trouble is the ghoul's ominous, heavy breathing behind her.
122* ''Series/TheXFiles'':
123** The Cigarette Smoking Man, the main villain of the MythArc, always smokes and his habit gave him heavy breathing.
124%%** The creepy mutant hibernating liver-eating serial killer from episodes "[[Recap/TheXFilesS01E03Squeeze Squeeze]]" and "[[Recap/TheXFilesS01E21Tooms Tooms]]".
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127[[folder:Music]]
128* "Forsaken" by [[Music/KoRn Jonathan Davis]] as covered by [[Music/{{Disturbed}} David Draiman]] has this layering the track.
129* The intro of "Edge of Dawn" by Music/{{Covenant}}.
130* "Mr Frump in the Iron Lung" by Music/WeirdAlYankovic has this, done with the air valve from his accordian.
131* Music/PinkFloyd has it in the background on "Don't Leave Me Now".
132* Music/JeanMichelJarre's "Oxygene Part 10" from ''Music/{{Oxygene}} 7-13'' ends with a sample of a SCUBA regulator, which is also a CallBack to the outro of "Fourth Rendez-Vous" from ''Rendez-Vous''.
133* Testube's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5USosO1-DHE "Second Soul"]] from the album of the same name has a particularly creepy one throughout the whole song.
134* The intro and ending of Juno Reactor's "Mars", the former [[FadingIntoTheNextSong starting during the fade-out of the preceding track]] "Rotorblade" on the album's CD and digital editions.
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138* Raistlin from the ''Literature/{{Dragonlance}}'' stories.
139* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'':
140** Techpriests often have their lower face and lungs replaced by cybernetics. Because of the [[SchizoTech strongly varying tech-levels]] of the setting, this can work perfectly well and even surpass the original organs or result in Vader Breath, which in the roleplaying games makes strenuous physical activity harder (the lungs are less efficient at oxygenating the blood) and applies a penalty to Sneaking rolls.
141** Cue inevitable {{Shout Out}}s--for example, a Techpriest model for ''Inquisitor'' reminding the creator of "He's more machine now than man."
142--->Dmitri hisses like an asthmatic pensioner when he breathes, naturally.
143** The Necron Lord of All Kaurava in ''VideoGame/DawnOfWar''. A Necron that speaks ''at all'' is unique in the setting.
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147* In the ScreenToStageAdaptation of ''Theatre/BeautyAndTheBeast,'' the stage directions say that when Belle arrives at the castle to try and rescue her father, she can hear the Beast breathing behind her - "animal-like."
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151* On of the scares in ''Ride/TheHauntedMansion'' is a door that bulges out and gives off a heavy breathing sound.
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155* Regenerators from ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4''. These things sound like someone might if they tried to breathe with a slit throat.
156* King K. Rool in ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong64'', in a rather obvious nod to ''Franchise/StarWars''.
157* ''VideoGame/EndlessOcean'': Your character does it every time you go underwater.
158* Psycho Mantis from ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid''.
159* Von Bolt, the BigBad of ''[[VideoGame/NintendoWars Advance Wars Dual Strike]]''.
160* Kassadin, one of the Champions in ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'', has this when he has charged one of his moves, Force Pulse. It gets irritating after a while which makes the player want even more to use the move on an unsuspecting enemy.
161* Gol in ''VideoGame/JakAndDaxter'' wheezes constantly for no apparent reason. It may be an effect of his Dark Eco corruption, but none of the other corrupted characters in the series have any noticable breathing difficulty, including Gol's sister. Gol has parts of his body [[ArtificialLimbs replaced with precursor technology,]] so it's probably either a result of the tech itself, or whatever injury caused him to lose those parts of himself in the first place.
162* Inner Lavos, the second form of the final boss in ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger''.
163* Dark Star in ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes'', among other ''Franchise/StarWars'' references.
164* In ''VideoGame/PrinceOfPersiaTheSandsOfTime'', the Vizier's bloody cough is probably for this purpose, underlining his evilness. It's not the IncurableCoughOfDeath, since he, well, doesn't die of it. Only because [[spoiler:the Prince kills him first.]] It ''was'' a sign he was dying, making part of his motivation to find the sands the promise of immortality.
165* Used as part of the background music in ''VideoGame/SilentHill1'', and in the OST tracks [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4xDleBC7uM "Never Again 2"]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpExfM_pVjM "Die"]]. The in Universe explanation is that it's Alessa's labored breathing on a hospital ventilator. The real world explanation is that a game that breathes as you play it is ''fucking creepy''.
166** Likewise for some of the ambience in ''VideoGame/SilentHill2'' and ''VideoGame/SilentHill3'', which also sometimes include a HeartbeatSoundtrack.
167* The G-Man, particularly in ''VideoGame/HalfLife2''. *gasp* The right man in the wrong place... It's believed to be yet another imperfection in his [[AFormYouAreComfortableWith "normal human" facade]], and more than one fan has described it as speaking like someone who's entirely unused to having lungs.
168** In the ''VideoGame/HalfLife1'''s ExpansionPack, ''[[VideoGame/HalfLifeOpposingForce Opposing Force]]'', the second stage of Headcrab Zombies could be identified by their creepy breathing. This breathing carries on with [=HL2=]'s poison headcrab zombies.
169* For some strange reason, the magical lampposts and lanterns in the Night Elf regions of ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' make this noise whenever you stand near them, leading many confused newbies to ask in the in-game chat rooms, "All right, who keeps doing the Darth Vader impression?"
170* The Pyromaniacs from ''VideoGame/{{Sacrifice}}''. Their unit quotes are also filled to the brim with Darth Vader and Lord Helmet {{Shout Out}}s.
171* The zombies in ''VideoGame/{{Thief}}'' have a bad, bad case of bronchitis.
172* The ending seasons of the ''[[VideoGame/MegamanBattleNetwork Mega Man Battle Network/Rockman.EXE]]'' featured Zero.EXE. It helps that he's not only based on a hero, but is seen working for the [[TheDarkSide side of evil]] at first and has a [[LaserBlade lightsaber]] for an arm when he fights?
173* [[BigBad Vohaul]] from ''VideoGame/SpaceQuestIIVohaulsRevenge'' is [[DarkLordOnLifeSupport hooked up to a ventilator machine]] and has a Vader-like mask (although his dialog is all text).
174* ''VideoGame/BattleRealms'' Lotus Clan has a unit called the Diseased One, which attacks by coughing toxic spores onto enemies.
175* The volus in ''Franchise/MassEffect''. The drastic differences in pressure and gravity require them to wear special environment suits on other planets (or at least all the ones Shepard has seen them on). They're not exactly evil, but they are a ProudMerchantRace without any really "heroic" representatives until the multiplayer DLC.
176* ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublicIITheSithLords'' has a section where your character must don a spacesuit to travel across the outside of a space station. Seeing as it's a Franchise/StarWars game and can't go ten minutes without a {{shout out}}, the spacesuit has breathing very similar to Vader's.
177* In ''VideoGame/{{Metro 2033}}'', you breathe very loudly when you put your [[GasMaskMooks gas mask]] on, and when your filter starts to fail, you start wheezing (while looking at your lens fog up).
178* Q from ''VideoGame/StreetFighterIII''. Idling makes him do Vader Breath, and the rest of his voicework is VoiceGrunting.
179* The Vores from ''VideoGame/{{Quake}}'' appear to suffer from this.
180* One of the sound effects in ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'', generally only used in very creepy situations and when the narrator is sufficiently badly injured.
181* In ''VideoGame/DarkFall: Lost Souls'', the Inspector whom you play has emphysema, and starts breathing hard if you climb steps or ladders, or stay in one place outside in the cold for long. The opening segment of the game consists of a black screen, and the sound of his increasingly-desperate attempts to draw air into what's left of his lungs.
182* ''VideoGame/{{Wolfenstein 2009}}'s'' [[PoweredArmor Heavy Troopers]] sound like this, if you can get close to them unnoticed. It's probably because they're vat-grown {{Super Soldier}}s with insufficiently developed lungs.
183* ''VideoGame/RuneScape'' has Mi-Gor, a small zombie wearing a gas mask. The breath is not actually heard, just described in the dialogue lines as *wheeze* before every line, and before that, "as if someone is trying to talk with his throat full of mud".
184* The ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' DLC Dead Money has the Ghost People, all of whom have wheezy, raspy, ''loud'' breath. The loud breathing is the best way to tell when they're sneaking up on you. Serves as ParanoiaFuel when you can't see them, but you can hear them breathing.
185* ''Videogame/{{Minecraft}}'' have blazes which breathe heavily.
186* Titanite Demons in ''VideoGame/DarkSouls'' do this to indicate their presence, even though they don't seem to have a head.
187* [[TheUnintelligible The Pyro]] in ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' has this in Meet the Pyro and presumably in-universe as a result of asbestos lung damage.
188* [[spoiler:Porky Minch]] in ''VideoGame/MOTHER3''. It is explained that [[spoiler:[[TimeAbyss his extensive abuse of time travel has left him immortal]], [[AgeWithoutYouth but still with an aging body,]]]] resulting in oft-childish banter and insults being peppered with the coughs and wheezes of an old man.
189%%* ''VideoGame/inFAMOUS2'': Ice Heavies.%%Quotes aren't context.
190%%-->'''Ice Heavy:''' We don't want... your thanks... we want... your blast core.
191* ''VideoGame/TheJourneymanProject'': Agent 5, Gage Blackwood Turbo gradually descends to this if you take too long in the maze below the Mars Colony. Once the music dies down, you can hear him struggling for air through an oxygen mask he's wearing. You can also hear him breathing heavily if he doesn't have the mask on at all in the maze or the NORAD VI time zone, which has [[spoiler: sleeping gas]] in the vents.
192* ''VideoGame/{{Penumbra}} Black Plague'': The music for the Chemical Laboratory has what sounds like heavy breathing in the background. Philip also does this when wearing a gas mask.
193%%* ''VideoGame/{{FEAR}}'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCE3DIRtqlw This ambient track]], first heard in Interval 3-1.%%Links aren't context.
194* ''VideoGame/{{Exmortis}}'' starts with the player character breathing like this, out in a cold forest at night.
195* ''VideoGame/{{Obsidian}}'': The second dream world does this in one of its four elemental puzzles, where the goal is to provide the [[GiantSpider Mechanical Spider]] with air. The ''landscape'' breathes when it's solved, and the spider visibly breathes in and out for a few seconds, as you return to the hub.
196* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess'': The Hero's Shade breathes like this constantly, despite being a skeletal ghost. [[spoiler:[[AllThereInTheManual As confirmed by]] ''Literature/HyruleHistoria'', he's actually a heroic example, being [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime a previous]] [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask Link]].]]
197* ''VideoGame/LittleNightmaresII'': The Doctor is heard making a heavy breathing which only enhance his creepiness.
198* ''VideoGame/TheSecretWorld'': Featured when players finally catch up with [[PatientZero Joe Slater]]; the first indication that something is very wrong with him is his hoarse, labored breathing. [[spoiler: He's partially transformed into one of the aquatic Draug, and his lungs aren't coping well with dry land.]]
199* ''VideoGame/WerewolfTheApocalypseEarthblood'': The Endron EliteMooks, guards turned into muscular hulks through the use of a SuperSerum and equipped with breather masks, breathe loudly and raggedly when moving or fighting.
200* ''VideoGame/{{Wick}}'': Tim and Tom Weaver. Tim from having caught polio as a living child, and Tom from having all his bones broken.
201* ''VideoGame/Wick2020'': Mara has rather loud, raspy breathing (possibly from the plague that ravaged the cathedral), which can be a tell-tale sign she's nearby.
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205* In ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' [[spoiler:Durkon, when turned into a vampire,]] as an undead, doesn't normally breathe. [[https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0982.html When he has to fake breathing]], it becomes a ''gwoooBWEARF'' sound. It starts out much worse the first time he tries.
206* ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'': [[spoiler:Frog]] does this initially [[https://archives.sluggy.com/book.php?chapter=61#2010-03-08 here]] while piloting a Vader-inspired and -sized mech he pilots when raiding the Digbot city alongside [[spoiler:Hereti-Corp]] soldiers as part of a ShoutOut to the beginning of ''Film/ANewHope''.
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210* ''WebVideo/OneHundredYardStare'': The mysterious masked man suffers from this condition.
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213[[folder:Western Animation]]
214* Brainy (That boy who keeps creeping up behind Helga and getting clobbered) in ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold''. There's also the legend of "Wheezin' Ed."
215* Kaia from ''WesternAnimation/{{Motorcity}}'' does this, due to her gas mask. [[spoiler:When she takes it off, her voice is somewhat distorted]].
216* ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'':
217** In "Teed Off", the groundskeeper whose job is to ensure that Mr. Dupette wins has a respirator just like Darth Vader.
218** Another episode features a rogue vacuum cleaner that does this as it comes after Rocko and friends.
219* Ed does this in one episode of ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' when he picks up a diving helmet and wears it.
220* Noxious from ''WesternAnimation/SkysurferStrikeForce''.
221* ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'':
222** Harold makes his entrance in "[[Recap/TotalDramaNotSoHappyCampersPartOne Not So Happy Campers - Part 1]]" breathing heavily and creeping the others out.
223** Chef plays a hockey mask-wearing serial killer in "[[Recap/TotalDramaHookLineAndScreamer Hook, Line and Screamer]]" and in that role breathes heavily. It's on occasion the first clue he's nearby.
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226''[[OverlyLongGag ...HOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHH...]]''

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