History Main / SoundOnlyDeath

* Although whatever happened to Franchise/{{Kirby}} at the end of [[https://www.wattpad.com/1281487513-the-frozen-heart%27s-star-chapter-4-a-suspicious-ice Chapter 4]] of ''[[https://www.wattpad.com/story/325408590-the-frozen-heart%27s-star The Frozen Heart's Star]]'' [[Main/DownplayedTrope doesn't really qualify as a "death"]], that's still worth mentioning because when [[CurbStompBattle he gets a frozen heart]], he screams out a really loud and painful sounding "poyo" and a small [[DeadlyGaze icy blast]] CurbStompBattle to the chest... yet we still didn't get to see the action actually happen.

* Although whatever happened to Franchise/{{Kirby}} at the end of [[https://www.wattpad.com/1281487513-the-frozen-heart%27s-star-chapter-4-a-suspicious-ice Chapter 4]] of ''[[https://www.wattpad.com/story/325408590-the-frozen-heart%27s-star The Frozen Heart's Star]]'' doesn't really qualify as a death, that's still worth mentioning because when [[CurbStompBattle he gets a frozen heart]], he screams out a really loud and painful sounding "poyo" and a small [[DeadlyGaze icy blast]] CurbStompBattle to the chest... yet we still didn't get to see the action actually happen.

* Although whatever happened to Franchise/{{Kirby}} at the end of [[https://www.wattpad.com/1281487513-the-frozen-heart%27s-star-chapter-4-a-suspicious-ice Chapter 4]] of ''[[https://www.wattpad.com/story/325408590-the-frozen-heart%27s-star The Frozen Heart's Star]]'' doesn't really qualify as a death, that's still worth mentioning because when he gets a frozen heart, he screams out a really loud and painful sounding "poyo" and a [[CurbStompBattle small]] [[DeadlyGaze icy blast]] [[CurbStompBattle to the chest]]... yet we still didn't get to see the action actually happen.

* ''Manga/BlackLagoon''. [[BetterToDieThanBeKilled Yukio's suicide]] in the anime, when she [[{{Seppuku}} stabs herself in the throat with a katana]]. We only see Rock staring in horror (as Revy screams at him not to) and the sound of Yukio choking to death on her own blood. The manga, meanwhile, gives us a completely unobstructed view as she gives him one last smile and falls over dead.

* In ''LightNovel/FateZero'''s anime adaptation, we don't see the actual death of the boy that Caster kills after giving him a cruel HopeSpot, just Caster's shadow tentacles reach out and grab him before it cuts away, but what we do hear makes it clear how horrific a death it was.

* ''Anime/{{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 it works.

* Done in the [[ItsAWonderfulFailure bad ending]] of ''VideoGame/WingCommanderIV''. [[PlayerCharacter Blair]] is taken offscreen to be executed by firing squad. "Blindfold?" "No." "Ready, aim, fire." (Gunshots, thump)

* ''WesternAnimation/IceAge'': At the climax, Manny knocks the evil saber Soto to a rock wall, the impact knocking loose sharp icicles. We see Soto's final moments as he [[OhCrap looks up in horror at the icicles coming loose and falling toward him]], then we cut to his hench-cats cringing as a sickening stabbing sound is heard.
** In ''WesternAnimation/IceAgeTheMeltdown'', Fast Tony's glyptodon lackey Stu is swimming underwater, using a reed as a snorkel, when one of the two defrosted predators pulls him down to his doom. We see the reed disappear and hear a pained/frightened scream, then [[NothingIsScarier silence]] for a few moments ... until his completely empty shell resurfaces. It's a surprisingly dark moment for an otherwise LighterAndSofter sequel.

* ''Series/BlakesSeven''. Cally's death in "[[Recap/BlakesSevenS4E1Rescue Rescue]]" is only shown by StuffBlowingUp and her crying out Blake's name. This was because Jan Chappell had decided to leave the series; she rejected the idea of a final episode portraying her death and only agreed to voice record her last words.

* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': In the fourth episode, Lestat de Lioncourt kills the undertaker off-screen, so viewers only hear the victim's yelps before he dies.

** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS16E1TheRibosOperation "The Ribos Operation"]]: When the Doctor tricks the Graff Vynda-K into blowing himself up with his own bomb, the result is portrayed by the Graff deliriously wandering down a hallway while having a war flashback, before the bomb explodes offscreen, accompanied by a burst of smoke and the Graff screaming in pain.

* ''Series/{{Angel}}''. [[VampireHunter Holtz]] taking out an entire Wolfram & Hart spec ops team in "[[Recap/AngelS03E08Quickening Quickening]]", presumably to obfuscate the FridgeLogic of a single BadassNormal with a sword killing a [[NoOneCouldHaveSurvivedThat dozen men with automatic weapons who have him surrounded]].

* ''Series/{{Angel}}''. [[VampireHunter Holtz]] taking out an entire Wolfram & Hart spec ops team in "[[Recap/AngelS030E8Quickening Quickening]]", presumably to obfuscate the FridgeLogic of a single BadassNormal with a sword killing a [[NoOneCouldHaveSurvivedThat dozen men with automatic weapons who have him surrounded]].

* In ''A Sound of Thunder'' by Ray Bradbury, the titular sound is used to refer to three things: 1) The Roar of a Tyrannosaurus Rex, 2) The guns that kill said Tyrannosaurus, and 3) The sound that the gun makes when aimed at the Protagonist who destroyed the present by tampering with the distant past.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Popeye}}'': At the end of "Happy Birthdaze" Popeye and Shorty, who's been accidentally causing AmusingInjuries the entire cartoon end up in a furnace in the dark. A gunshot is heard and the silent closing title says "The Bitter End".

** Ed Machine comes home [[AloneWithThePsycho to find Pericles Waiting for him]]. He says he wants to deliver his boss a message, Ed tells him to say it and leave... Pericles informs him that he doesn't intend for him to say anything, cut to the outside where Ed's screams and Wing flutters can be heard.
** After Marcie "Hot Dog Water" Fleach's failed attempt at holding Pericles captive, he orders his Kriegstafflebots to execute her. They advance, open up their Gatling Guns, cut to Velma and Scooby, they hear gunshots, and Scooby starts whimpering.

* Occurs in the ''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow''. After Frank N Furter chases Eddie into the freezer, [[GoryDiscretionShot we see Columbia's horrified face]] as we hear Eddie's screams and Frank chopping him to pieces with a pick-axe.

* In one of the endings of ''Videogame/DetroitBecomeHuman'', [[spoiler: Connor finds Hank sitting at the kitchen table with a gun, a bottle of Scotch, and a picture of his deceased son while his dog Sumo whimpers in the background. Connor and Hank have a fight, ending with Hank telling him to GetOut. Connor leaves, but lingers in the front yard long enough to hear a gunshot and Sumo's HowlOfSorrow.]]

* ''Series/TheHauntingHour'' features these in abundance. One of the [[NothingIsScarier creepiest ones]] would be from "My Old House." A girl who doesn't want to leave her old home [[AdultFear runs away from her family]] [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything to be with it again]]. However, she soon realizes that her family is more important when she sees them worry over her disappearance. When she tries to return to them [[{{Yandere}} the House]] has a VillainousBreakdown and prevents her from leaving. While the scared girl cowers in a corner, the house brings out CombatTentacles and goes in for the kill. The last time we see her alive she screams before we get a discretion shot.

* Archie's ''Comicbook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics'' has one in the milestone issue #225; Sonic and Sally infiltrate the newly-built Death Egg Mark II, where they are then immediately confronted by Silver Sonic Mark II. Sonic decides to fight. However, Sally runs down a corridor to trace Eggman's intercom signal, where she encounters a giant gun turret that pops out of the wall. Sonic, while still fighting Silver Sonic, hears 3 sickening loud blasts (Possibly made worse by the art detailing in the onomatopoeia of the blasts.) from outside the corridor. The only thing we see afterwards of Sally is her shattered goggles and a silhouette on the floor of her lifeless hand, as Mobius reboots itself. She's not dead...but then gets roboticized.

* The James Cagney movie ''Film/AngelsWithDirtyFaces'' ended this way.