History Main / SoundOnlyDeath

* ''{{ElfenLied}}'': The last of a squad of guards trying to prevent the escape of a [[OneManArmy teenage girl]] is cornered as his co-workers shut the doors on them both. She crouches down in front of him as he cowers in a corner, shitting his pants in fear...

* ''{{ElfenLied}}'': The last of a squad of guards trying to prevent the escape of a [[OneManArmy teenage girl]] is cornered as his co-workers shut the doors on them both. She crouches down in front of him as he cowers in a corner, shitting his pants in fear... ''{{Noir}}''. The [[MafiaPrincess Intocabile]] murders the family of a Mafia boss this way, after he commits treason. This was done to get around the heavy restrictions placed on gore by the network (which is why the series uses BloodlessCarnage) and [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel it works]].

* ''{ElfenLied}}'': The last of a squad of guards trying to prevent the escape of a [[OneManArmy teenage girl]] is cornered as his co-workers shut the doors on them both. She crouches down in front of him as he cowers in a corner, shitting his pants in fear... ''{{Noir}}''. The [[MafiaPrincess Intocabile]] murders the family of a Mafia boss this way, after he commits treason. This was done to get around the heavy restrictions placed on gore by the network (which is why the series uses BloodlessCarnage) and [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel it works]].

* ''{{Noir}}''. The [[MafiaPrincess Intocabile]] murders the family of a Mafia boss this way, after he commits treason. This was done to get around the heavy restrictions placed on gore by the network (which is why the series uses BloodlessCarnage) and [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel it works]].

* The goat eaten by the T-rex, the hacker eaten by the Dilophosaurus and, most notably, ''Anything'' eaten by the Velociraptors in ''Jurassic Park'', and for good reason- '' they are all eaten alive''.

* ''Game/{{Unreal}}''. After a couple brief sightings of a Skaarj on your crashed ship, you come to a locked door. Behind the door, you hear some of the other prisoners or guards ([[RedShirt unsuccessfully]]) fighting the alien. Once the door finally opens, you see the Skaarj run off, leaving a pile of [[LudicrousGibs what used to be people]] on the floor behind him.

** Debatably, also [[spoiler:the ending of the series.]]

* In SuckerPunch, there's a scene where Blue talks to all of the girls about [[spoiler:their escape plan, which he found out about]]. When he shoots [[spoiler:Amber and Blondie]] there's just the sound of the gunshot.

* Subverted in ''FinalFantasyTactics'': Delita approaches [[spoiler:Valmafra]], sword drawn, and the "camera" pans upwards out of the scene as a scream is heard. Later on, we learn that the person in question is still alive, Delita just cut out their tongue.

A subtrope of GoryDiscretionShot. See also ScreamDiscretionShot and ShadowDiscretionShot. Sometimes an example of NothingIsScarier, where the scene is more disturbing because we can't see it.

** Later used, completly straight with [[spoiler: Adelaide Brooke's suicide]] in [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS4E16TheWatersOfMars The Waters of Mars]]

** In ''Time of the Angels/Flesh and Stone'' [[spoiler: How the Weeping Angels kill the unlucky clerics that they catch. ''* neck snap* '']]

* '''PlayedForLaughs''' in the ''DoctorWho'' episode "The Sound of Drums". A minion of the BigBad shows up in a room which the BigBad then exits, and until he closes the sound-proof door, we hear screams and the sounds of horrible sharp instruments. Then, after a little while, the BigBad ''opens'' the door again, and screams can ''still'' be heard from inside. He closes it again, waits a bit longer ... opens the door, and the victim is still screaming ... but the next time, the room has gone quiet.

* [[spoiler:Jenny Sheperd]]'s death at the end of season 5 of {{NCIS}}. Perhaps partially subverted in that we see [[spoiler:her]] body, as well as several dead {{mooks}}, shortly afterward, and we see part of the fight in the next episode.

* Done in Euripides's Greek myth-inspired ''Medea'', when the titular character murders her children, making this trope [[OlderThanDirt older than dirt]].

* Not entirely sure this belongs here, because you do technically see it (albeit from a great distance), but here goes: The Count's death in ''CastleOfCagliostro'', when he's crushed by the clock tower's hands. You hear him in pain, and then a gurgle accompanied by a nasty-sounding crunch as the hands move to the 12:00 position.

* At least one James Cagney movie ended this way; can't remember the title.

* Played with in the ''DoctorWho'' episode "The Sound of Drums". A minion of the BigBad shows up in a room which the BigBad then exits, and until he closes the sound-proof door, we hear screams and the sounds of horrible sharp instruments. Then, after a little while, the BigBad ''opens'' the door again, and screams can ''still'' be heard from inside. He closes it again, waits a bit longer ... opens the door, and the victim is still screaming ... but the next time, the room has gone quiet.

* ''{{Unreal}}''. After a couple brief sightings of a Skaarj on your crashed ship, you come to a locked door. Behind the door, you hear some of the other prisoners or guards ([[RedShirt unsuccessfully]]) fighting the alien. Once the door finally opens, you see the Skaarj run off, leaving a pile of [[LudicrousGibs what used to be people]] on the floor behind him.

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* ''{{Noir}}''. The [[MafiaPrincess Intocabile]] murders the family of a Mafia boss this way, after he commits treason. This was done to get around the heavy restrictions placed on gore by the network (which is why the series uses BloodlessCarnage) and [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel it works]].
* Not entirely sure this belongs here, because you do technically see it (albeit from a great distance), but here goes: The Count's death in ''CastleOfCagliostro'', when he's crushed by the clock tower's hands. You hear him in pain, and then a gurgle accompanied by a nasty-sounding crunch as the hands move to the 12:00 position.

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* Done in ''{{Watchmen}}'' when Rorschach went into the [[TheCanKickedHim prison restroom]] and killed Big Figure.

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* Done in Euripides's Greek myth-inspired ''Medea'', when the titular character murders her children, making this trope [[OlderThanDirt older than dirt]].