History Main / BugBuzz

* In the ''Franchise/Pokemon'' world, Bug Buzz is a Bug-type special attack that has a 10% chance of lowering the target's special defense by one stage. It is also a sound-based attack since it involves the user to generate loud buzzing noises strong enough to damage the target.

* ''WesternAnimatiob/BigMouth'': Season 4 introduces the "Anxiety Mosquito," a symbol of chronic anxiety who stresses people out by buzzing and whispering doom-mongering comments in their ear.

* ''WebAnimation/SimonsCat'': In "Fly Guy", a buzzing fly wakes up the cat, so he tries to kill it, but accidentally makes a huge mess of Simon's living room instead. When the cat believes he has killed the fly, he tries to show it to Simon without realising Simon is asleep, and ends up pushing the fly into Simon's mouth. To make matters worse, it's still alive and buzzing in his stomach, which annoys both of them.

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[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
* Characters.PathfinderFiends: Their Droning Madness ability is a BrownNote.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* Characters.KirbyOtherBosses: The waves of energy that turn Kirby's friends against each other are accompanied by a droning hum, suggesting this.
* Franchise/{{Pokemon}}: TropeNamer. It's an attack that damages the foe with the sound wave of rapidly buzzing insect wings (or by vibrating other parts of the body if the attacker has no wings). Because this is a sound-based move, it can [[ArmorPiercingAttack bypass substitutes]], but it is blocked by the Soundproof ability and is unusable if the user of the move has been hit by Throat Chop. Bug-type attacks as a whole are strong against Psychic-type Pokémon; one likely reason for that is that Psychic is a type associated with mental powers, and the buzzing sound breaks concentration.
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* Characters.DigimonUltimateDigimonAToL: It has an attack called Irritant Buzz.

* ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry''. Its title translates to "When the Cicadas Cry." This sound effect is creepy, since if you listen ''very closely'' to the background, when the scene turns dark or scary, it sounds suspiciously like high-pitched screaming. Hence the title.
* Most high school-based anime includes the buzzing sound of cicadas, usually representing summertime.
** The very first episode of ''VisualNovel/{{Air}}''.
** ''Manga/FruitsBasket''
** ''Manga/JunjouRomantica''
** ''Manga/PeachGirl''
* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' is suffused with cicada sounds, mainly because Second Impact altered Earth's axis enough to throw off the seasons. This is especially evident during the scene right after the defeat of Shamshel, and in the opening scenes of ''Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion''.

[[folder:Fan Works]]
* ''Fanfic/SonOfTheSannin'' combines this with LoveAtFirstNote. Shino comes from a family that weaponizes beetles to the point that they've turned their own bodies into hives for them to live, so he naturally finds the buzzing sound of Fu's wings (which she gained from being the host of the Seven-Tailed Beetle) to be very appealing.

[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
* Creator/HayaoMiyazaki and the films of Creator/StudioGhibli frequently use insects sounds for emphasis.
** ''Anime/MyNeighborTotoro'''s nighttime scenes are loaded with nocturnal buzzing.
** Subverted in ''Manga/NausicaaOfTheValleyOfTheWind'' in that most of the insect life sound like propeller planes. This is probably related to a revelation only in the manga: [[spoiler:using machine noises for them [[OrganicTechnology subtly hints at their true nature]]]].
** The 1998 film ''Anime/OnlyYesterday'', although it makes sense as the story is a city girl spending two weeks on a farm.
** Cicadas buzz throughout the movie ''Anime/WhisperOfTheHeart''.

[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
* In the movie ''Film/PracticalMagic'', the noise of the death beetle signified that [[spoiler: Sally's husband Michael]] was about to die.
* ''Film/{{The Mummy|1999}}'': Ugh, those chittering noises those black bugs make. And the sound of all those running legs as they overwhelm somebody and ''crawl into their mouths!''
* In ''Film/TheRightStuff'' the invading horde of news reporters is always accompanied by the sounds of locusts.

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* According to legend in the south of France, cicadas were created by God ''specifically'' to keep people from sleeping during the middle of the day so they would get back to work.

[[folder:Literature]]
* The S'krrr language in ''Literature/GalaxyOfFear: The Swarm'', wingsong, is controlled bug buzz. A S'krrr poet, and the shapeshifting Hoole in S'krrr form, once [[spoiler: calm a beetle swarm]] together via very loud wingsong.
* The narrator of ''Literature/TheEventsAtPorothFarm'', Jeremy, is renting an outhouse on a farm deep in the New England countryside, and constantly has to put up with the sound of insects while he's trying to sleep. Which makes it ''very'' unnerving when, one night, the crickets just ''stop'' for a second, and then continue again out of rhythm for a moment - "as if a hand had jarred the record or there'd been some kind of momentary break in the natural flow..."

[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* In the ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' episode "Macrocosm", the macrovirus buzzes, frequency inversely proportional to size.
* The Bolivia episode of ''Series/TopGearUK'' had a startling moment around sunset on the first day when all the insects in the rainforest seemed to suddenly sound off at once. Richard Hammond, who is afraid of insects, was not happy at all.
* In the ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E7TheUnicornAndTheWasp "The Unicorn and the Wasp"]], the Reverend who is transforming into a wasp-like alien actually starts making buzzing sounds with his mouth when he talks.

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* ''Music/TheWall'': David Gilmour uses his electric guitar to represent "the worms eating into" Pink's brain as he slips further and further into madness. Worms don't buzz, but since they represent decay here, we can assume that flies and other insects were thrown into the mix.

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* In one ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'' comic, Calvin complains about how irritating bugs' characteristics are, including their noise. Hobbes snarks that a lot of the same things apply to kids, leading the enraged Calvin to chase him.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* A move in ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' is called "Bug Buzz". It's a [[BrownNote sound-based Bug attack]] that ''damages'' its target. And it's the ''second most powerful Bug move in the game''. It is commonly believed that bug moves are strong against psychic types because the buzzing sound breaks their concentration.
* Some of the grasshopper enemies in ''{{VideoGame/Bug}}!'' have an attack where they fire out a sound wave from their legs.
* ''VideoGame/TheSims'' uses flies as an indicator that something is dirty. They're actually hard to see, but when you're trying to figure out exactly what needs to be cleaned, you can hear their buzz.
* ''VideoGame/MortalKombatX'' introduces D'Vorah, member of the Kytinn, a race of BeePeople. Appropriately enough, she speaks with a buzz that adds reverb to her voice and makes her [[EvilSoundsRaspy come across as raspy]].
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[[folder:Web Comics]]
* [[{{Psychopomp}} Ketrak]], from ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt'': [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=334 This instance]], for example.
-->'''A fly:''' ...zzzzzzzzzz ''[sticks in a web]'' Bzzzz! Zzzz[[KilledMidSentence *]]\\
'''Annie:''' ...Hello again, Ketrak.
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[[folder:Real Life]]
* Crickets chirp at different rates depending on their species and the temperature of their environment. Most species chirp at higher rates the higher the temperature is (approximately 62 chirps a minute at 13°C in one common species; each species has its own rate). The relationship between temperature and the rate of chirping is known as Dolbear's Law. Using this law it is possible to calculate the temperature in Fahrenheit by adding 40 to the number of chirps produced in 14 seconds by the snowy tree cricket common in the United States.
* A species of cricket has been discovered that does not chirp when expected. The species in question is prey to a parasitic fly that lays its eggs in the body of the cricket, so that the fly's larva can use the cricket as a food source. The cricket's behavior has evolved so that it only chirps at those times during which the fly is least active, which is outside of the usual temperature cycle for crickets.
* Play enough vuvuzelas together, like at a World Cup match, and they sound like a swarm of gigantic drunken bees. You do need quite a World Cup stadium-sized crowd to get the effect, though; otherwise, they tend to sound like, well, [[ShapedLikeItself a bunch of obnoxious plastic horns]].
* The sound of any Mazda powered by a rotary engine can also be described as resembling a swarm of angry bees.
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