An index of tropes about sound effects.
See also Stock Sound Effects.
Tropes:
- Acoustic License
- Arcade Sounds
- Audible Gleam
- Audible Sharpness: Whether from a sheath, a scabbard, or from simply being picked up, bladed weapons tend to make the same 'shing!' noise when being drawn
- Audience Murmurs
- Audio Diegesis
- Automated Dialogue Recording
- Bang, Bang, BANG: Even though guns in real life make a wide variety of sounds at varying volumes, in media they'll almost always sound like shotguns.
- Big Honking Traffic Jam: When in doubt, blast your horn until the light turns green!
- Bomb Whistle: A falling bomb (or anything falling from a great height, for that matter) typically whistles for a good while before reaching the ground. Most commonly seen in cartoons and animated films.
- Bug Buzz
- Ceiling Banger
- Censored for Comedy
- The Coconut Effect
- The Croc Is Ticking
- Doom Doors
- Everything Is an Instrument
- Fake Loud
- For Doom the Bell Tolls
- Flashback... Back... Back...
- Flatline
- Gale-Force Sound
- Glass-Shattering Sound
- Hair-Trigger Sound Effect
- Hearing Voices
- Hell Is That Noise
- Hey, It's That Sound!
- Hollywood Silencer
- Idea Ding
- Jackhammered Conversation
- Jungles Sound Like Kookaburras
- Kabuki Sounds
- Kinetic Clicking
- Knuckle Cracking
- Kung-Foley
- Laugh Track
- Letting the Air Out of the Band
- Limited Sound Effects
- Losing Horns
- Loud Gulp
- Make Me Wanna Shout
- Make Some Noise
- DarthWiki.Most Annoying Sound
- SugarWiki.Most Wonderful Sound
- Nails on a Blackboard
- Noisy Guns
- Noisy Nature
- Noisy Robots
- Offscreen Crash
- Open Sesame
- Plot-Based Voice Cancellation
- Previews Pulse
- "Psycho" Strings
- Quaking with Fear
- Quieter Than Silence
- Radio Voice
- Recognizable by Sound
- Record Needle Scratch
- Repetitive Audio Glitch
- Rimshot
- Saved by the Church Bell
- Scare Chord
- Screeching Stop
- Shapeshifting Sound: A character transforms with a loud, noticeable, or distinctive sound.
- Shell-Shock Silence
- Signature Sound Effect
- Sinister Scraping Sound
- Sinister Whistling
- Sound-Effect Bleep
- Sound of No Damage
- Space Is Noisy
- Stock Audio Clip
- Stock Scream
- Stuka Scream: The terrifying sound of a Jericho Trumpet mounted to the leading edge of a Junkers Ju 87 Stuka is a particularly common sound effect in media, commonly being used in similar situations to the Bomb Whistle.
- Sound Defect
- Terrible Ticking
- That Poor Car
- That Poor Cat
- The Thing That Goes "Doink": A common sound effect in Anime that many people unfamiliar with the source just can't get their heads around exactly what it is; the titular thing is a shishi-odoshi
, a water-driven device designed to scare away deer from gardens with its gentle, but abrupt clunking noise.
- Tick Tock Terror
- Unsound Effect
- Walkie-Talkie Static
- Wacky Sound Effect
- Whoosh in Front of the Camera
- Wink "Ding!"
- Wolf Whistle
