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  • There's plenty of Big Word Shouting in the Ace Attorney series, but it's mostly played as a consequence of living in the World of Ham that is the court system. However, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Spirit of Justice weaponizes it. The final case sees Apollo Justice shout at Big Bad Queen Ga'ran loud enough to not only knock her backwards, but blow away the armed guards protecting her. Chords of Steel indeed.
  • In After the War, certain hybrids will attack you with a cone of loud sound, which will also knock down even enemies caught in the middle.
  • Angry Birds 2 gives Red the ability to give whatever's in front of him a shove with his battle cry, which can help topple structures.
  • In Archon, Banshees have this as their power. It has very short range, but they are the only melee unit that can move and attack at the same time.
  • Atlantis no Nazo has a microphone powerup that lets the player stun all enemies on the screen by shouting into the second Famicom controller.
  • Atlas Reactor: PuP's ultimate, "Subwoofer", causes PuP to morph his head into a giant boombox and causes a sonic wave that deals massive damage in a small radius.
  • Backyard Sports: "OH MY GOD IT'S A SCREAMING LINE DRIVE!"
  • In the B.C.'s Quest for Tires sequel B.C. II: Grog's Revenge, Grog insta-kills you just by yelling "GROG!" when you happen to run into him, giving you an instant Game Over.
  • BioShock:
    • From BioShock 2: KYYYYYYYAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! (Screen distorts) Mr B! Mr B! Big Sister doesn't want you playing with me...
    • BioShock Infinite, meanwhile, has two monstrous enemies who have screaming as a big part of their motif. The Siren's voice is so powerful she can tear through the veil between worlds, allowing her to summon the souls of the dead — she uses this to resurrect the enemies you kill. The Boy of Silence, on the other hand, is a living alarm system whose freakish scream draws swarms of enemies to kill you.
  • In Brütal Legend, General Llyonwhite does this to a mirror falling on him. Unfortunately for him, his scream breaks the mirror and the huge, sharp shards kill him
  • Charlie Murder: The titular protagonist and one of his fellow bandmates Kelly scream into a microphone to use magic attacks, which can be upgraded over time.
  • Chop Goblins: The Chop Goblindas attack by winding up and then shouting an insult at the player, which deals hitscan damage if the player isn't behind cover.
  • City of Heroes offers Sonic Attack and Sonic Resonance as powersets. The default animation for these powers are a range of screams and shouts. Oddly, while Sonic Attack damages targets and renders them vulnerable to more damage, Sonic Resonance includes a number of powers that make your allies tougher instead. All by making strange shrieking noises.
  • In Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 the Allied attack dog and Soviet war bear have functionally-identical stun abilities based on their roar/bark. The dog has an amplifier to help, and can pass this along to the Multigunner IFV if the dog hops in the shotgun seat. The Allied dolphin (also in Red Alert 2) has an amplified sonic weapon as an actual damaging attack that can take out boats if they attack in groups.
    • In Tiberian Sun, the GDI had the Disruptor tank which was derived from Scrin technology. It fired high powered sound waves at targets, and was one of the more powerful units in the game. In Tiberium Wars, GDI used sonic weapons as static base defenses, and later built smaller mobile versions as well. According to the backstory, this technology was useful in combating the spread of tiberium, though it doesn't seem to have much of an in-game effect.
  • In Condemned 2: Bloodshot, there's a whole cult with this ability. You're one of them, and gain it for the last level.
  • Darkstalkers: Rikuo/Aulbath has a special move called Sonic Wave, where he emits ultra-sonic waves to stun his opponents and that inflicts some damage on them.
  • Dead Rising 2: Metal band Angel Lust obliterates an entire horde of zombies by blowing up their heads with a deafening Big Rock Ending. This specific trope would best apply to Jeanna, the band’s sultry siren of a lead singer, but her Metal Scream is only implied, and never actually heard on the soundtrack. Rescuing the band allows the player to craft a "Power Guitar", a combination of an electric guitar and amp that will blow the heads off of zombies with The Power of Rock.
  • The barbarian of Diablo II has a number of vocal capabilities (howl, taunt, shout, battle cry, battle orders, war cry and battle command) with a number of effects on enemies ranging from fear, stunning or status penalties all the way to immediate damage. And they can grant allies temporary buffs.
  • Dota 2: Beastmaster's Primal Roar stuns the select target for a relatively long time. Queen of Pain is capable of two different Super Screams - Scream of Pain is a regular ability, Sonic Wave an ultimate and appropriately stronger.
  • One of the warrior's abilities in Dragon Age: Origins is "War Cry". When upgraded it can knock enemies off their feet.
  • The Mercenary (Melee Area of Effect) class in Dragon Nest has an entire range of shout skills. One of the higher level ones actually creates a vacuum when he inhales to bring enemies closer so that the actual shout can hit more of them.
  • In Dune II, after getting the IX building upgrade, House Atreides can manufacture Sonic Tanks, capable of hitting multiple targets if they're all in the line of fire.
  • Ecco the Dolphin gets various weapons-grade augmentations to his voice over the course of his games; he is a dolphin, after all.
  • The Elder Scrolls Online gives this ability to Winged Twilights, a bat-like form of lesser Daedra with some harpy-like traits. They have the ability to stun opponents with their shrill, high-pitched shrieks.
  • Fallout: New Vegas: Lakelurks have a sonic shriek attack, and it hurts. Even worse, they are based on the Mirelurk King from Fallout 3. He has the same attack, and it does hurt a lot (it ignores armor).
    • New Vegas also has the Sonic Emitter in the Old World Blues DLC, basically a gun which fires sonic blasts that play hell on anything mechanical, and can disable forcefields. You can also bring more samples to one of your AI helpers so he can tinker with your emitter and change the blast's effects. Or, in his words, "Get me a good sample base to work from and I can whip up a wave that makes Jericho look like a kazoo".
    • There's also the Displacer Glove, a Power Fist that uses sound waves to punch enemies across the room.
  • Fortissimo from Freedom Force vs. The Third Reich, fitting for an Italian opera singer. Naturally, his vocal blasts are accompanied by a high note.
  • Friday Night Funkin' Game Mod Mid-Fight Masses features Ruvyzvat, or Ruv for short, a large Slav whose singing sounds like intense Russian hardbass. It's enough to shake the church and knock down several of the pillars and wall fixtures... and this is without his mic turned on. He's doing that with raw vocals alone, a feat that requires sounds somewhere in the 150 decibel range.
    Ruv (from a With Lyrics fan rendition): BRING DOWN THE HOUSE OF GOD!
  • The Sjas in Ghouls vs. Humans can attack with supersonic shouts (and even when he doesn't attack this way, he screams bloody murder all the time.)
  • Ko Tien-Lei a.k.a Oleg from The Gladiator can execute a mighty roar as his special attack, that manifests as rings of energy knocking a whole bunch of enemies right before him off their feet.
  • Some minor enemies in Golden Sun games can use a vocal attack. Bats unleash sonic waves, Harpies let out a shriek, and Scuttlers bellow a bloodcurdling cry. These deal damage and sometimes prevent an action or even stun a character. Also, until Dark Dawn, unleashed weapon techniques were narrated as "(character)'s (weapon) lets out a howl! (technique name)!"
  • The sirens in God of War II have a migraine inducing attack of this nature.[[/note]]
  • In Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters Melee and its sequels, Anguirus, the go-to Badass Normal of Kaiju appearing in the Godzilla series, uses his really loud roar as his ranged attack against monsters who instead have Breath Weapons and lasers as theirs.
    • Titanosaurus and Varan, two other Badass Normal Kaiju, get sonic beams in the third game in the series, Unleashed.
  • In Guild Wars Shout skills are simply skills that have no cast time (and, indeed, can be used while you're casting or using another skill) and have an effective range of "earshot" (which is approximately aggro range). Their effects are generally damage modification (either increasing or decreasing it), but one shout, "You Move Like A Dwarf", actually damages, knocks down, and cripples whichever foe you have targeted when you use it.
  • The Stringy-Haired Ghost Girl enemy in The Haunted Mansion video game uses this attack.
  • Orc barbarians in Heroes of Might and Magic V are forbidden from learning magic, instead they get a selection of battlecries that function as buffs for their soldiers.
  • House of the Dead: OVERKILL has the Screamer boss who, well, screams at you to attack. Apparently, this has the side-effect of messing with G and Washington's minds as they begin to hallucinate during the battle.
  • Kingdom Rush: Origins: In the Crystal Lake stage, the Grootslang periodically emerges from the waters to use its sonic roar, which shatters crystals on the stage and opens additional lanes for enemies to enter through.
  • Kirby has the "Mike" ability; picking it up will have Kirby shout into a microphone and kill off every enemy on screen, though this can be done only three times. In Kirby Air Ride, it also stuns other players and CPUs.
  • Klonoa: Popka has this as his Limit Break in Klonoa Beach Volleyball.
  • Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords has the Force Scream power, which is one of the best Force powers in the entire game. note 
  • The Legend of Zelda:
    • Redeads can stun people with their screams, which get higher and more shrilled over the years.
    • The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask: Skull Kid's scream speeds up the falling of the moon.
    • Pol's Voices can be stunned by the player shouting into the microphone — on systems that have one, that is. Phantom Hourglass was the first game where this was possible outside Japan, but it could be done in the original The Legend of Zelda using the microphone built into the Famicom's second controller.
  • Lila's Sky Ark: The Banshee-form upgrade grants Lila the ability to scream ghostly projectiles. This is useful both for defeating foes and for knocking aside the stone titans that block certain paths.
  • The Lord of the Rings Online has many, many damaging shouts. Minstrels alone get at least three ways to kill via yelling, with bonus points to Dwarven minstrels, whose shouts, rather than wordless "AAGH!" of every other race, consist of the war-cry "Baruk Khazâd! Khazâd ai-mênu!"
  • Madagascar: Alex's primary attack is to roar at his enemies, which scares some larger enemies away and kills smaller critters, apparently by causing heart attacks in them.
  • If you ever so sadly happen to pull a mandrake out of pot without the earplugs equipped in Mad Father, it unleashes a hellish scream that can kill Aya.
  • Magical Battle Arena turned Naga's Noblewoman's Laugh into this for her Limit Break Super Move, where she encases her target in ice with a Freeze Arrow then simply laughs beside her hapless victim, dealing massive damage. Somehow, this just feels right.
  • Maribato!: Shizuka Kanina (Yes, Rosa Canina from Maria Watches Over Us) appears as a playable character. Shizuka is able to use her singing voice as a weapon. When she sings, she produces notes that cause damage; Can also create a force field to protect her, for her DP; She's also able to produce a soundwave that temporarily stuns her opponent, and leaving her wide open.
  • Mega Man:
  • Mighty Gunvolt: Joule in her DLC campaign in Mighty Gunvolt Burst fights enemies in the virtual world by singing at them, along with randomized singing poses when she attacks.
  • The Pop Star class in Miitopia can use their "Out of Tune" skill to sing atrociously on purpose, dealing heavy damage to every enemy and a small amount of damage to their allies.
  • In Monster Hunter, the majority of the monster's roars have the ability to stun you and, for the most part, can only be avoided by rolling or blocking with your weapon. However, some monsters (such as the Tigrex) have roars powerful enough to inflict minor damage and send you hurtling dozens of feet across the landscape.
  • Queen Sindel from Mortal Kombat. Her scream is so piercing, it can rip the entirety of someone's skin and organs from their skeleton and blow what's left into chunks.
  • Nexus Clash: The Archon can sing the Song of the Word, which draws upon the combined portfolios of all the gods of good to purge evildoers from an entire building or area. Depending on the beliefs and zeal of the particular Archon, "evildoers" may mean anything ranging from only actual demons and murderers to anyone less than perfectly holy.
  • Not Dying Today have screaming zombies, zombified women with loudspeakers grafted into their skulls. Lacking the ability to chew or claw at you, they will instead shriek when you're around, and their soundwave can actually stun you and drain your health.
  • Oriental Legend: Bajie's special attack is a mighty roar that echoes in a straight line that knocks demons off their feet, handy for taking down a row of enemies right before him.
  • One of the many ways to die in The Persistence is to have Weepers cry at you with such intensity that you're paralyzed in fear and die on the spot. Your vision even turns blood-red so long as you can hear them.
  • Persona:
  • Pokémon has a few attacks like this, such as Uproar, Echoed Voice, Noble Roar, Disarming Voice, Snarl, Sparkling Aria, and Hyper Voice. There's even one called Round which becomes stronger if both Pokémon in a team battle do it at the same time. There are also sound-based status-affecting moves such as Screech and Supersonic, and the Pokémon ability Soundproof can protect a Pokémon from any sound-based attacks. Howl can boost the user's own Attack Score, while Roar can scare a wild Pokémon away or force a trainer to switch Pokémon. The evolutionary line of Whismur/Loudred/Exploud and Noibat/Noivern are also all based on this trope, and both can use the most powerful shouting attack, Boomburst. Sound-based attacks can pierce Substitutes without any additional abilities required, and the Hidden Ability Liquid Voice makes all sound-based attacks Water-type. An attack move named Throat Chop is a Kryptonite Factor for these voice-based moves, as it disables the target's voice-based moves for two turns should Throat Chop connect.
  • In Shantae (2002), the naga enemies' main form of defense is a sonar attack. Annoyingly, it homes in on you, is too fast to outrun, and is fired at the same time that they jump into the air, which, along with their high health, made them difficult to fight without using a cheese strat. Later games removed this ability and gave them considerably less health, and they wouldn't get a ranged attack again until Half-Genie Hero.
  • Spelunky: In the Ice Caves, you can encounter a boss Yeti whose roar causes chunks of ice to break off the ceiling and fall on your character's head.
  • Spirit of the North: The fox acquires the ability Spirit Bark, a super-powerful bark that destroys the Plague Tethers corrupting the environment.
  • Splatoon 2: Pearl has been known to blow out speakers with her voice. In the Octo Expansion DLC, she actually weaponizes it, using a Killer Wail amplifier makes her voice powerful enough to win a Beam-O-War with a doomsday device.
  • In Star Wars: The Old Republic, sequel to Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords Sith Warriors have both Force Scream, which deals damage, and Chilling Scream, which slows enemies.
  • Super Mario Bros.:
    • In New Super Mario Bros. Wii, Bowser does this in the final battle, but it doesn't do any damage, just pushes you back a little.
    • Bowser Jr. uses sound waves as part of his super ability and mega strike in Mario Strikers Charged.
  • Raving Rabbids:
  • In the flash-based webgame Swords and Sandals, a valid min-maxing strategy is to focus mostly on Charisma, so that your Taunt skill becomes your free, deadly, ranged, and only, weapon.
  • In SYNTHETIK, The Riot Guard class has the Battlecry Module, and it can unleash an electro-magnetic soundwave to damage and stun nearby enemies.
  • Temtem has three damaging techniques that involve sound — Shrill Voice, Awful Song, and Soul Shout — as well as Roar and King's Roar, which lower the targets' stats. All of them are Neutral type except Soul Shout, which is Melee-type.
  • Touhou Project's Kyouko Kasodani is able to manipulate sound waves. Her attacks are normally centered on her amplifying her own voice to ungodly levels and stunning her prey with infinitely-repeating echoes. On a related note, the Prismriver sisters' attacks include actual visible sound waves in the form of musical notes, but their powers are limited to what their instruments can do.
  • Universe at War has the Amplifier for the Novus faction, which basically functions as a sonic artillery unit.
  • Waku Waku 7: Mauru, the resident Totoro expy, is Cute, but Cacophonic, and has a very loud shout as his Limit Break.
  • Warframe:
    • The Banshee warframe primarily relies on sonic strikes and echolocation to find and kill enemies.
    • Instead of the normal Radial Blind, Excalibur Umbra has Radial Howl: A ferocious shout that stuns targets and causes Sentients (and the Shadow Stalker) to lose any acquired damage resistances.
  • In a twist on this trope, the Street Jam psych from The World Ends with You is triggered when the player stimulates the DS' mic. It comprises of Neku summoning giant speakers that blast sound into every Noise in the current battle. A variant, the Twister psych, turns mic stimulation into gusts of wind that blow enemies up and then slam them down.
  • The Wolf and the Waves: Your wolf form's "bite attack" is visualized as a cone of short-range sonic waves.
  • Warcraft:
    • Banshees (and their Palette Swap Ghosts and Spectres) attack by screaming at enemies, although it's not actually audible as more than a slight wail. Banshees also cast Curse, which makes the enemy miss in combat.
    • Pit Lords and Overlords can cast Howl of Terror, which terrifies the enemy into dealing less damage.
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