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* ''Manga/{{Toriko}}'' does a comically-lengthy version of this with the dropping of the Dodurian Bomb (basically a natural StinkBomb turned UpToEleven). The moment the fruit's olfactory onslaught is unleashed, we first get a bird's eye view as the fruit's giant stink cloud explodes. We then see ''17'' different characters react to it all across Human World. Most show variants of "''[[{{Pun}} What the smell?!]]''", one (Teppei, the guy who ''sent'' Toriko and Komatsu there) prays, and another (Sunny) collapses in reaction to it. Only one (Zongeh) doesn't react due to smell tolerance, but the two next to him do.

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'': At the start of "Helter Shelter," the Professor's loud and protracted yell of "BUUUUBBBBLES!!!!" goes all the way into outer space, where the girls are repairing a spacecraft.

* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' uses (and mildly subverts) this in the episode "A Smith in the Hand". Steve attempts to use a hot iron on a piece of wood placed directly over Stan's crotch. When the expected HilarityEnsues, it cuts to a mountain range with forest animals as we hear Stan's scream, and an avalanche occurs. Later, Stan is rubbing ointment on the wound, which results in a... [[ImmodestOrgasm different type of scream]]. The same cut is used, and another avalanche occurs, at which point one of the animals asks why they keep grazing there.

[[caption-width-right:350:Fortunately it was Sunday, [[InferredHolocaust so there wasn't anyone]] [[ConvenientlyEmptyBuilding on the continent they just destroyed]].[[note]]The continent would have been completely occupied [[HatingOnMonday the next day]], though.[[/note]]]]

* ''Manga/{{Toriko}}'' does a comically-lengthy version of this with the dropping of the Dodurian Bomb (basically a natural StinkBomb turned UpToEleven). The moment the fruit's olfactory onslaught is unleashed, we first get a bird's eye view as the fruit's giant stink cloud explodes. We then see ''17'' different characters react to it all across Human World. Most show variants of "''[[IncrediblyLamePun What the smell?!]]''", one (Teppei, the guy who ''sent'' Toriko and Komatsu there) prays, and another (Sunny) collapses in reaction to it. Only one (Zongeh) doesn't react due to smell tolerance, but the two next to him do.

* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'': In "Rambling Ed", one of these from the other cul-de-sac kids follows Rolf's frustrated cry of ''"The burden of hospitality is too great for Rolf!!"''

** A less extravagent scene occurs whenever an Angel is destroyed: the camera cuts to a far-off place where the audience can see a massive [[CreepyCoolCrosses cross-shaped explosion]]. Happens to EVA-04 in the above example, as well as with [[spoiler:every human on the planet during the Third Impact]].

* In one ''ComicStrip/{{Cubitus}}'' strip, the titular dog blows an inflatable firecracker as it inflates to humongous proportions and is about to burts. We are then treated to a reaction shot showing Earth as a pale blue dot surrounded by a cartoonish explosion, and a caption explaining this is the firecracker explosion as seen from far away in deep space, with no onomatopoeia to avoid deafening the readers.

** In "Once Bitten" as Gary runs amok and causes everyone to get "Mad Snail Disease", SpongeBob cries out, "Gary? Gary?! GARY?! GARY!!", followed by [[StaggeredZoom jumping zoom-outs]] to Conch Street, the Earth, and the Milky Way.

* ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'' has perhaps the world's only depiction of [[{{Fartillery}} destructive Transformer flatulence,]] caused by a bad reaction to wild beans. The establishing shot is from high orbit. The [[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/The_Low_Road#Real-world_references enormous blue mushroom cloud]] of gaseous Energon that results is larger than all of north Africa, billows out past the stratosphere, and causes massive atmospheric ripples. Pretty impressive for one techno-organic rhinoceros of average size.
* An occasional gag that would pop up in ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'', whenever Helga would get frustrated with Arnold. She would look up and shout, [[SayMyName "ARNOOOOOOOOLLLD!"]] Cut to Arnold and Gerald (who would usually be on the other end of town). Arnold would look up, turn to Gerald and ask, "Did you hear something?" To which Gerald would reply, "Nope."

* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy''
** In "Dial Meg for Murder", a hardened Meg steps into the shower with a loofa while Peter is in it. She tells him "Don't worry about it", [[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnmale and]] [[ParentalIncest then...]]
--->'''Peter:''' AAAAAHHH! YOU TOLD ME NOT TO WORRY ABOUT IT! I SHOULD'A BEEN WORRIED THE WHOLE TIME!
** In "Quagmire's Dad", Quagmire's sex-changed father Ida tells Quagmire that she met someone, and he excitedly asks her the man's name. The scene then cuts to outside his house, where we hear Quagmire shout a BigNo from finding out that "someone" is [[SitcomArchNemesis Brian]].
* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'': In "Rambling Ed", one of these from the other cul-de-sac kids follows Rolf's frustrated cry of ''"The burden of hospitality is too great for Rolf!!"''

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''
** An early "April Fools"-themed episode had [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4g8S7y0p2c Bart pranking Homer]] with an overshaken can of Duff beer. When Homer ''finally'' opens the can, Bart barely has time to call him on it before the sheer force of the exploding beer [[TrashTheSet destroys the entire house]], and the scene cuts to the police officers on patrol two blocks away witnessing the resulting MushroomCloud.
** In the first part of "Who Shot Mr. Burns?", the family receives a thank you letter from Burns for the assorted chocolates... except for Homer, who had sent the candies in the hopes that Mr. Burns would at least remember his name. When Homer reads the letter, he orders the kids to step out of the room before unleashing a major F-Bomb. [[CurseCutShort The audience doesn't hear it]], but we cut to outside of the house as the church's organ lets out a note (Fittingly F minor), crows are disturbed and fly off from their perches, and the neighbors around the street stand around in shock.
--> '''Flanders''': ''Dear lord!'' That's the loudest profanity I've ever heard.
** Another episode had Bart shout "Testing" through 10 megaphones. The sound was so loud not only did it cause windows all over Springfield to break but also shattered every bottle of Duff beer Homer had in the fridge.
* ''WesternAnimation/FairlyOddparents'' has a moment that doesn't even require a noise: A beauty rest-lacking Cosmo is so ugly that the mere ''revelation of his face'' causes a herd of deer miles away to look up in alarm.
* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'': At the start of "Helter Shelter," the Professor's loud and protracted yell of "BUUUUBBBBLES!!!!" goes all the way into outer space, where the girls are repairing a spacecraft.
-->'''Blossom:''' ''(to Bubbles)'' Boy, what did you do ''this'' time?
* ''WesternAnimation/ReadyJetGo'': At the end of "What Goes Up...", Mitchell screams at the sky, and his scream is so loud, that the camera zooms out on the Earth.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'': When the class finds out that Speedy the Hamster passed away in "Speedy, We Hardly Knew Ye", Mikey yells out "SPEEDY'S DEAD!" and we see everyone else around the school listening to him shouting.
* ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'': In "World Wide Rabbit", Mac and Bloo secretly tape an embarrassing video of Mr. Herriman, and Bloo ends up uploading it and making it go viral. When he finds out about it, the scene cuts to the house exterior as we hear him yell "WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THIS?!".

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' has this in ''[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E1TheCrystalEmpirePart1 The Crystal Empire]]''. After Spike tells Twilight Sparkle that a scheduled meeting with princess Celestia is "just a test", the camera cuts to an overview shot of Ponyville and we see the Golden Oak Library jump hundreds of feet into the air. And still Applejack thinks that "she took that well"...

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}'': When the class finds out that Speedy the Hamster passed away in "Speedy, We Hardly Knew Ye", Mikey yells out "SPEEDY'S DEAD!" and we see everyone else around the school listening to him shouting.

* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' shows a small red patch on the globe. We soon find out that a miles-wide circle got wiped out when one of the new Evas had a... glitch.

*** In a flashback to the Second Impact, there is a scene which shows the event from a satellite in four photographs, which show the event creating a huge expanse of nothingness when seen from orbit forming over the South Pole, as well as the [[spoiler:White Moon which spawned the Angels]].

* When Finn [=McMissile=] blows up Tony Trihull (also a large ship) at the end of ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars 2}}''.
* The end result of the Wuxi Finger Hold in ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'' was shown through one of these... [[spoiler:[[TheUnreveal conveniently]] [[NeverFoundTheBody keeping us]] [[SequelHook from knowing if the villain truly died...]]]]

** Used in the bad endings of ''Highly Responsive to Prayers''.

* ''Webcomic/TouhouNekokayou'' has [[http://dizzy.pestermom.com/?p=thcomic88 this]] reaction to Reimu using "[[GodModeSue Hax]] [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill Sign]] 'DeusExMachina'": "([[EarthShatteringKaboom BOOMIES]], [[UnSoundEffect EXCEPT THERE'S NO]] [[SpaceIsNoisy SOUND IN SPACE]])"

* WebVideo/DragonBallAbridged: When Vegeta discovers that [[spoiler: Gohan swiped his stashed Dragon Ball]], we get a string of these showing that Vegeta's yell is audible from [[spoiler: the Z-warrior's hideout, Frieza's base, Goku's spaceship (still in space), Yemma's house in the afterlife, and Earth 20 years in the future.]]

* SomethingAwful's old [[LetsPlay Let's Play]] of ''VideoGame/SidMeiersAlphaCentauri'' jumps to the viewpoint of a space telescope in Earth orbit as it picks up the nuclear holocaust on the planet the game's set on, 4 light-years away. For something as low-key as a computer's system messages, it's really quite effective at evoking dread of the scale of the devastation.

* The end result of the Wuxi Finger Hold in ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'' was shown through one of these...[[spoiler:[[TheUnreveal conveniently]] [[NeverFoundTheBody keeping us]] [[SequelHook from knowing if the villain truly died...]]]]

* ''VideoGame/PennyArcadeAdventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness: Episode One'' ([[ColonCancer whew]]) has this. A support character attacks by means of a big (pink) explosion that becomes stronger every time you use it. First few times and it's just the battle screen. Then, it zooms out to show the explosion in the area. Then in the city. Then it zooms out further....

--> '''Flanders''': ''Dear lord!'' That's the loudest amount of profanity I've ever heard.

** In the first part of "Who Shot Mr. Burns?", the family receives a thank you letter from Burns for the assorted chocolates... save Homer who had sent the candies in the hopes Burns would at least remember his name. When Homer reads the letter, he orders the kids out of the room before unleashing a major F-Bomb. [[CurseCutShort The audience doesn't hear it]] but we cut to outside of the house as organ lets out a note (Fittingly F minor), crows are disturbed and fly off from their perches and the neighbors around the street stand around in shock.

* Inverted in [[http://ps238.nodwick.com/?s=12%2F16%2F2006 This]] ''ComicBook/{{Ps238}}'' strip: In a secret facility far underground, the toddler son of two superheroes is being tested. They ask him to strike a target as hard as he can. Cut to the surface, where a tiny "pop" in the ground makes a little kid trip. Back in the lab, the machinery has been demolished.

[[caption-width-right:350:Fortunately it was Sunday, [[InferredHolocaust so there wasn't anyone]] [[ConvenientlyEmptyBuilding on the continent they just destroyed]].[[note]]The continent would have been completely occupied [[HatingOnMonday the next day]], though.]]

%%* VideoGame/HenryStickminSeries: This is a common gag among the series' [[TheManyDeathsOfYou many, many fail scenes]]. For example, using the expanding foam in ''Infiltrating the Airship''.

* ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'': In the bad ending, the Day of Lavos, Lavos emerges from the surface and shoots projectiles that cause explosions. The planet, visible from space, covered in explosions, becomes red, then gray. [[note]]But... The future refused to change.[[/note]]

** In the first part of "Who Shot Mr. Burns?", the family receives a thank you letter from Burns for the assorted chocolates..save Homer who had sent the candies in the hopes Burns would at least remember his name. When Homer reads the letter, he orders the kids out of the room before unleashing a major F-Bomb. [[CurseCutShort The audience doesn't hear it]] but we cut to outside of the house as organ lets out a note (Fittingly F minor), crows are disturbed and fly off from their perches and the neighbors around the street stand around in shock.

** In "Dial Meg for Murder", a hardened Meg steps into the shower with a loofa while Peter is in it. She tells him "Don't worry about it", [[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnmale and]] [[ParentalIncest then...]]]

* Happens in [[Anime/FateZero Fate/Zero]] when Saber uses her WaveMotionSword Noble Phantasms against [[spoiler:Rider and destroys his Gordius Wheel]], the shot cuts to Kirei Kotomine on a rooftop along with [[Kariya Matou, his Berserker and an unconscious Irisviel]] watching the beam.

* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': In "Message Received", after Peridot burns her bridges with Homeworld by [[spoiler: calling ''[[BigBad Yellow Diamond]]'' a clod]], the episode ends with Peridot's despondent groans being heard from further and further away, even out in ''space''.

* ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'': In "World Wide Rabbit", Mac and Bloo secretly tape an embarrassing video of Mr. Herriman, and Bloo ends up uploading it and making it go viral. When he finds out about it, the scene cuts to the house exterior as we hear him yell "WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THIS?!"