History Main / BombWhistle

->"Get up, get up, get up! Drop the bombshell! Get up, get up, get up, this is out of control!"
-->--Powerman 5000, opening lyrics of the WWF entrance theme of Wrestling/TheDudleyBoys

* ''JohnnyDangerously'' contains a scene actually involving a bomb dropped from a plane on the casino of his enemy, Roman Maronie. Followed by an [[NonFatalExplosions explosion]]. Followed by a declaration of [[ThisMeansWar FARGIN WAR!!]]

* The incoming mortar in {{Film/Stripes}}. Only Sgt Hulka knows [[OhCrap what it means]]. The recruits just look around in confusion.

* Grenades in the ''Franchise/BioShock'' series make this sound when thrown.
* In {{Skullgirls}}, Peacock's appropriately named ShadowOfImpendingDoom attack plays this sound whenever she uses it to summon an object to fall on her opponent.

-->--Powerman 5000, describing the WWF entrance of the Wrestling/TheDudleyBoys

* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': Parodied; a ManateeGag shows a Japanese man having a terrible day (while in Hiroshima in 1945). After several annoying and inconvenient trifles, we hear a BombWhistle and he looks up, saying "Oh my God..." just before a baboon lands on him and starts attacking.

* One of the pilots flying in to Dien Bien Phu during the French efforts to defeat the Viet Mihn would, so the story goes, drop empty bottles out of the plane because they sounded like falling bombs to the Vietnamese besiegers. Aircrews performing nighttime raids in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII would get up to similar hijinks to harass the enemy.

* ''CallOfDuty'' uses it for mortars as well as air-dropped bombs.

* The Warner Brothers 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.

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* The WWE entrance of Wrestling/TheDudleyBoys begins with two projectiles shot toward the stage, followed by a pyrotechnic display. This became so associated with them that even without the light show, their TNA theme still includes the bomb whistle.

->"Get up, get up, get up! Drop the bombshell! Get up, get up, get up!"

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* 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 WorldWarII, it might actually have been a Stuka.

* One of the pilots flying in to Dien Bien Phu during the French efforts to defeat the Viet Mihn would, so the story goes, drop empty bottles out of the plane because they sounded like falling bombs to the Vietnamese besiegers. Aircrews performing nighttime raids in WorldWarII would get up to similar hijinks to harass the enemy.

* One of the pilots flying in to Dien Bien Phu during the French efforts to defeat the Viet Mihn would, so the story goes, drop empty bottles out of the plane because they sounded like falling bombs to the Vietnamese besiegers.

* Fireworks can often make a similar noise as they fly into the air.
** The whistle effect in fireworks does not come from movement through the air; it is created by burning a special whistle fuel in a half empty tube. The fuel burns in a pulsating fashion, which resonates with the empty section of the tube. As the fuel burns away, the empty section becomes longer and the whistle frequency decreases. Since the burning produces thrust, it can be used for rockets.

* The Warner Brothers cartoons are the most frequent users of this trope. The whistle makes sense in most of these, as the angle is an overhead shot that shows the character falling. Most often the case for the Coyote.

Whenever an object is falling from the sky towards a character, it is often accompanied by a high pitched whistling tone that both increases in volume and decreases in pitch as the object approaches the ground. It is usually heard while a ShadowOfImpendingDoom engulfs said character. May be accompanied by a StukaScream.

* The Warner Brothers cartoons are the most frequent users of this trope. The whistle makes sense in most of these, as the viewer is usually on top of a cliff watching a character fall downwards.

* The American SBD "Dauntless" divebomber, meanwhile, managed to get a similar effect using its perforated dive brakes. The holes in the dive brakes, included for aerodynamic reasons, had the side effect of giving the plane a reportedly banshee-like wail sound in a dive[[note]] Probably leading to its US Army designation: The A-24 "Banshee".[[/note]]

* ''{{Canabalt}}'': The whistle is only heard for an instant before the bomb lands.
* ''HalfLife'': When you're outside of Black Mesa, mortars fall at times. They make sounds similar to this.

* Invoked in ''AlphaProtocol''; in the fight with [[spoiler:Sean Darcy]], he makes this noise by whistling when he throws grenades at you. Earlier in the game, you can see mortars being used against enemy {{mooks}}; these make the correct noise.

* ''JohnnyDangerously'' contains a scene actually involving a bomb dropped from a plane on the casino of his enemy, Roman Maronie. Followed by an [[NonFatalExplosions explosion]].

* Grenades in the ''VideoGame/BioShock'' series make this sound when thrown.