History Main / BombWhistle

* In ''VideoGame/SpyHunter'' and its 2001 remake, the helicopter bombs have this.

* The WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes cartoons are the most frequent users of this trope. The whistle makes sense in most of these, as the viewer is shown an overhead shot that clearly shows the character's fall. Most often applies to the Coyote.
** A few WesternAnimation/PinkPanther used this sound effect to good, ahem, effect (e.g. "Pinto Pink," "Pink-Outs," "Sink Pink").

* {{Exaggerated|Trope}} for a gag in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode "Obsoletely Fabulous", where Bender signals the launch of two boulders via catapult, which inexplicably have the whistle sound effect. Not only that, but [[OverlyLongGag they go on for long enough]] for people to brace in fear, get bored, then return to bracing before they finally hit.
* In the "Cabin Fever" episode of WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife, Mr. Bighead "helped" Rocko and Heffer by making the head. Mr. Bighead tries to ruin their fun by making the head into a huge snowball which he pushes down the nearby mountain. In SelfDisposingVillain style, the snowball rolls past the boys, up the adjacent mountain's curve, which launches it into the air above Mr. Bighead. He stares at it while it creates a ShadowOfImpendingDoom complimented with a BombWhistle.
* ''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle'' "Banana Formula" story arc did an extensive one. Boris drops the "hush-and-boom" explosive vial over the heroes from a second story window and we hear a Bomb Whistle with a lowering pitch. Boris has enough time to catch the formula after realizing he'll be blown up too.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder'' episode [[Recap/WanderOverYonderS1E1TheGreatestTheEgg "The Egg"]], this trope is parodied when Wander and Sylvia fall offscreen with the egg they're trying to protect, and a whistling sound is heard...then the camera pans down to show that they landed on a ledge, and Wander was actually whistling.
* Used a lot on the WesternAnimation/TexAveryMGMCartoons, but "WesternAnimation/BlitzWolf" takes it quite literally. The Wolf fires a whistling bomb at the pigs, but the main pig stops it by holding a magazine pin-up poster. The bomb stops in midair and does a WolfWhistle, then flies back and returns with more bombs to look at the pin-up, whistle at it and faint.

* Creator/DingoPictures' ''Animation/DinosaurAdventure'' uses a sci-fi-sounding variation of this when Tio falls off the cliff, followed by the company's signature "DUNNNN!" ScareChord when he hits ground.

->''"Get up, get up, get up! Drop the bombshell! Get up, get up, get up, this is out of control!"''
-->-- '''Music/Powerman5000''', opening lyrics of the WWF entrance theme of Wrestling/TheDudleyBoys

* Music/PinkFloyd, ''Music/TheWall'' uses the sound. Pink's father is killed by a bomb from a dive bomber. Note that since the plane dropping the bomb was an Axis plane during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, it might actually have been a Stuka.

* Creator/DingoPictures' ''Dinosaur Adventure'' uses a sci-fi-sounding variation of this when Tio falls off the cliff, followed by the company's signature "DUNNNN!" ScareChord when he hits ground.

* In the "Cabin Fever" episode of WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife, Mr. Bighead "helped" Rocko and Heffer by making the head (of course). Mr. Bighead tries to ruin their fun by making the head into a huge snowball which he pushes down the nearby mountain. In SelfDisposingVillain style, the snowball rolls past the boys, up the adjacent mountain's curve, which launches it into the air above Mr. Bighead. He stares at it while it creates a ShadowOfImpendingDoom complimented with a BombWhistle.

-->-- Powerman 5000, opening lyrics of the WWF entrance theme of Wrestling/TheDudleyBoys

* World War II MMOFPS ''WWII Online'' includes sounds for falling bombs. If you're close enough to hear it, you're probably dead. The in-game Stukas are equipped with a toggle for the Stuka whistle. (a.k.a. [[FanNickname Stuka kazoo]])

* Played with strangely in ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'', as this noise can be heard when Boba Fett is flying. Makes his supposed death all the more comical since it comes by way of his jetpack.

* The Basin and the drophammer, in both ''VideoGame/PaperMarioStickerStar'' and ''VideoGame/PaperMarioColorSplash'', are weapons that fall upon Mario's enemies from high up. They predictably make such a sound during the fall.

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* In ''VideoGame/SpyHunter'' and its 2001 remake, the helicopter bombs have this.

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