For starters, it could be rewritten to be broader than video games, since other media can be unnervingly silent too.
edited 10th May '11 6:50:51 PM by bluepenguin
I see the Awesomeness.
Sounds like a Subtrope of Nothing Is Scarier.
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I think it might be a good idea to send it to YKTTW since looking at its discussion history, it does not seem to have gone through it.
That probably would help it pick up some examples too.
edited 11th May '11 9:20:03 AM by LouieW
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How does this compare with Quieter Than Silence? The focus there is on small background noises being the only thing to be heard rather than there being no music (though obviously there isn't any music either), while Unnerving Silence puts the emphasis on there being no music, but mentions the small background noises as well.
Because this trope is Played for Horror when Quieter Than Silence is often played to make things peaceful and idyllic, or empty. Same cause, different outcomes.
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Hmm.. the description for Quieter Than Silence doesn't emphasise it as much as I thought it used to, but it does specifically say "This kind of silence always ends with a Scare Chord.", and quite a lot of the examples emphasise the Played for Horror nature of the trope.
Quieter Than Silence is definitely not to show things as peaceful or idyllic though - it's not just that there's only small background sounds, but only the small background sounds that are normally drowned out by foreground noise. It'd be the silence you get when the birds and animals are all staying silent rather than the silence you get because you're in an idyllic setting.
It looks like it could be a subtrope of Quieter Than Silence, but I don't think it's worth splitting. Voting for a merge.
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I vote either merge or cut entirely.
Merge with Quieter Than Silence. That's also a not-very-used trope.
The Internet misuses, abuses, and overuses everything.
Merge it.
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This could be another supertrope we shouldn't lose. I'm not sure — are there other tropes about using silence or the sudden cessation of sounds to signal "Bad shit about to happen"?
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If I'm reading the description right, it doesn't sound like a supertrope. It sounds like it's talkng specifically about using silence as a sort of Leitmotif for a character. Although even the 3 examples don't really agree on that.
edited 5th Mar '12 4:38:28 PM by abk0100
Only three votes in total, in almost a week?
Gentleman Troper!
Bump for votes.
Rhetorical, eh? ... Eight!
This needs a few more votes.
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And done. Unnerving Silence is now in Quieter Than Silence.
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I found this page and it only has a couple of examples and just three articles link to it. I would help but I only really know one game that is an example and it is already there.
edited 10th May '11 6:09:46 PM by Chytus