Super Scream / Anime & Manga

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• In the finale of the '80s Astro Boy, the final robot, "Bora", has this ability.
• The title character in Betterman uses this when he transforms into his Nebula form. The frequency is tuned to the specific enemy he's fighting, so bystanders are left unharmed.
• Bleach:
  • When Grimmjow Jaegerjaquez performs his Resurrección, the first thing he does is howl loud enough to throw up gale-force winds and momentarily stagger Ichigo.
  • Wonderweiss destroys the ice imprisoning Harribel with his creepy shrieking.
  • Jerome Guizbatt's Schrift, "The Roar", grants him the power of supersonic screams. It's strong enough to render Kenpachi temporarily deaf. The anime adaptation shows that his roars are powerful enough to blow up the heads of Red Shirts.
• In Brave10, Rokuro uses sonic attacks in the rare instances he gets to fight, as well as for breaking up spats among the Braves. It's apparently an Unno family secret technique, as his twin shares the ability in the sequel.
• Corpse Princess had a Shikabane whose scream could propel a human several metres, and make bullets explode.
• One of the contractors in Darker than Black has this ability. She's an overweight former opera singer and while she mostly uses it to cause ludicrous amounts of structural damage, she can also neatly and quietly stop someone's heart.
• A basic attack of Level 4 Akumas in D.Gray-Man is to screech and stun the enemy. It's super effective.
• Shoutmon in Digimon Fusion (Digimon Xros Wars in Japan) has this as one of his attacks. For once, Calling Your Attacks is the attack. Hard to know if anything he yelled into the microphone that is his weapon would have the same effect.
• Aru from Doraemon: Nobita's Chronicles of the Moon Exploration is one of the various Espals with natural powers, his being manifested as soundwaves through shouting. A sharp yell of his can destroy a small cave in an instant.
• In the spirit of the series' ridiculous power levels, Buu in Dragon Ball Z uses this to escape confinement in another dimension (it was partially out of desperation — there wasn't any candy there). Later, Gotenks powers-up and replicates the shout to escape the same dimension.
  • Buu later attempts to destroy the whole of creation in a similar manner, and is only barely stopped by Vegetto (the only time in that entire fight that had Vegetto looking worried... or showing any kind of effort for that matter).
  • Kid Buu can do the same thing, though his screams only cause earthquakes as opposed to ripping roles in reality.
• Fairy Tail:
  • Natsu defeats Cobra who can hear people's thoughts thanks to very powerful hearing, by roaring very loudly. In a later anime-only arc, Cobra gets to turn it back on him by learning how to amplify and blast sound waves at his opponents.
  • In Acnologia's first appearance, he roars loudly enough that the ground in front of him gets torn up and trees get uprooted. Note that this is just Acnologia bellowing, not an actual attack like his Dragon's Roar.
• The Suzuki aliens from Gantz have an attack that is basically this in beam form.
• Cyberdoll Rena (voiced by Rie Kugimiya of her early fame, by the way) from Hand Maid May; she can produce supersonic screams... and god help you if she starts crying.
• Uvogin from Hunter × Hunter has super-strong... well, everything, to the point of having a strong-enough set of lungs to utter a Kiai that can kill at point-blank range.
• Kamen no Maid Guy gives us MAID GUY VOICE. It's capable of preventing people from moving.
• Several martial artists in Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple are able to do this. Siegfried knocks one of his opponents unconscious by screaming at a hellish pitch, Silcardo Jenazad can cause an avalanche with his voice, and the Elder at one point screams with enough force to knock over everybody in a stadium — while the Elder's strength was limited to 0.0002% of his usual power.
• In Killing Bites, the vast majority of Brutes have heightened senses. When cornered inside a restroom, Brute Beagle is able to render her attacker nearly unconscious by baying at full volume inside the enclosed space. Hardly surprising for such an infamously noisy breed.
• The Eisengeheul ("Iron Howl" in English) spell in Lyrical Nanoha, which works like a flashbang grenade minus the flash, stunning all unprepared people within the area. This is actually more like a magical version of Sonic Stunner.
• The titular Varga of Majuu Senshi Luna Varga has the Blast Voice, a voice attack that is shown to be capable of completely obliterating whatever it hits.
• Musuko ga Kawaikute Shikataganai Mazoku no Hahaoya: Alice, the owner of the shop Lorem and Merii frequent, has the ability to control and redirect sound. This lets her fire off blasts of sound, but she can also use it for echolocation, which served her well in her previous career as a smuggler. However, as she explains to Teresa, using her sound and her eyes for sight at the same time can make Alice dizzy, which is why she almost always wears a blindfold.
• The mermaids of My Bride is a Mermaid can do this.
• My Hero Academia: Present Mic is a pro hero and teacher whose Quirk allows him to amplify his own voice to deafening levels. Naturally, he is chosen to face Kyoka in a test as his loudness outclasses hers.
• The several members from the village of Sound in Naruto, although none of them make the noise with their own voice.
  • The Bijuus can flatten forests, cause tsunamis, and send almost everything in front of them flying with their powerful roar. That is, when they are not using their tails, feet, or Bijuu Damas.
• In Negima! Magister Negi Magi, the first team that Negi and Kotarou faced as prize fighters in the Magic World included a Tiger Man capable of emitting a roar powerful enough to match Negi's Beam Spam.
• One Piece:
  • El Dorago from the first movie.
  • Capone Bege tries to kill Big Mom by pushing her Trauma Button (Which makes her normally Nigh-Invulnerable body not so nigh) and shooting several poison missiles at her. Thing is, at the time, several of Big Mom's Berserk Buttons had already been pushed by the Straw Hats, so her Freak Out is so bad that she destroys the missiles with the force of her hysterical screams!
  • Saint Warcury, one of the Five Elders, is capable of unleashing a scream infused with Conqueror's Haki in his transformed state.
• The classic Super Robot Raideen had this as one of its stronger weapons.
  • As does Rahxephon, which was heavily inspired by Raideen.
• Ryu Kumon, a foe of Ranma whose fighting style has a paralyzing scream due to surprise. It's usually something like "FREEZE!", but can be anything suited for his enemy. "LOOK! YOUR MOTHER!" (It Makes Sense in Context)
• Rooster Fighter: Keiju's finishing move is inhaling air many times his size, and crowing so hard, glass and demons in front of him explode.
• Kanade Kamiya of Rosario + Vampire is a Siren, using his songs to cause unbearable pain to all who hear it, as well as allegedly having songs for brainwashing. San Otonashi is a Siren who decided to not talk because of what her powers did when she was younger, using a sketchbook to communicate. She uses her own songs to protect the heroes from Kamiya, but at this point she still remains fairly uncommunicative. When she starts talking, you are already dead.
• Early in Sailor Moon, the title character can cry to the point where it becomes ultrasonic waves, shattering glass, stunning enemies and rendering weaker ones unconscious. Since her odango barrettes glow when she does this, it's ambiguous whether the power is hers or her barrettes are a Magical Accessory with Sonic Stunner functions. This, like many of her secondary powers, is discarded pretty early on. It comes back far later in a team attack with Sailor Chibi Moon.
  • May be a Shout-Out to Sally the Witch, where whenever Poron started crying and screaming, things would get weird...
  • A Monster of the Week in the S season had this as her ability too. She was actually a violin fused with an Evil Seed by Eudial.
• Scrapped Princess: Pacifica doesn't have the capacity to fight like her adopted siblings, but whenever tragedy strikes around her (people dying, people trying to kill her, etc.), she emits a scream that sends out a massive shockwave. It doesn't kill anybody, but it is useful for breaking them free from mind control. It's because her powers as the anti-Peacemaker program only trigger under extreme stress.
• Ragnarok in Soul Eater has this ability, known as Screech Alpha. There is a Screech Beta and a couple others also. Probably about half Ragnarock's named attacks involve screaming.
  • This trope is Crona and Ragnarok's entire schtick, pretty much. Other meister-weapon teams use a technique called 'Soul Resonance' to power up: Crona and Ragnarok use Scream Resonance.
    • Black*Star disrupts it with a roar of his own.
    • And Crona tops it to cover the ENTIRE MOON in screams.
• Lala in To Love Ru knocked a typhoon off course by yelling at it... because it was gonna ruin her trip to the beach. It's one of the few opponents she actually seemed to be angry at.
• In Toriko, the fourth and final member of the Four Heavenly Kings to be introduced is a colossal man called Zebra, who takes this power up to eleven, demonstrating the ability to use echoes to generate an artillery barrage and even more or less nuke countless powerful monsters with a single shout.
  • He can also manipulate soundwaves in ways that make no sense, such as protecting himself with a wall of sound, and giving someone else persistent armor made of sound by shouting from hundreds of yards away.
  • And if that wasn't weird enough, he also can kill enemies by imitating sound of Grim Reaper footsteps. He claims, that he killed so many, that he learned, how Death sounds.
• This is Yoh's ESPer ability from Unlimited Psychic Squad
• In Yes! Pretty Cure 5 The Movie, in which Pretty Cure 5 go to a Mirror Universe and meet a team of "Dark Cures", Dark Lemonade has a supersonic scream ability. Ultimately, it just gets her killed, though.
  • Later in the same franchise we get the lion-based Cure Gelato, who can produce a supersonic scream. Makes sense, since not only is she the vocalist of a rock band, but a lion's roar is loud enough that it can be heard up to 5 miles away.
• Yu-Gi-Oh! The Movie: Pyramid of Light: Androsphinx attacks by screaming and sends shockwave with its scream.
• Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V:
  • The Melodious archetype uses sonic waves to attack. The monsters are either singers or other kind of musicians.
  • Odd-Eyes Rebellion Dragon's Monster Effect is called Overload Howling, which sends purple sonic waves that destroys all Level 7 or lower monsters the opponent controls and inflicts damage equal to the ATK of the destroyed monsters. The first time, it calls lightning that strikes down its foes with it, but since then, the sonic waves alone destroy the enemies.

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