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"Okay, Robin. Together, we're gonna dial these guys so difficult, words describing the bear on are gonna spontaneously materialize out of thin air!"

We've all experienced it: We're reading a volume, or a comic, or a website, when suddenly:

*POW!*

You go hit by an onomatopoeia.

Sound effects written out as onomatopoeia can be used in many media, but they play a special role in Sequential Art. Comics are highly visual media that show a scene in pictures instead of describing it in words. Without written audio furnishings, those scenes would live in a especially silent space in the reader's head, where the merely imagined sounds would be the dialogue, if any.

Some very creative things can be done with fonts, sizes, colors, shadows or glow, placement, spatial orientations, and curvatures to make a Written Sound Effect more than evocative and fit information technology with the art.

The Written Roar is one specific kind of Written Sound Result. Contrast the Unsound Effect, which is a written effect that is non onomatopoeia. A particularly common form of Editorial Synaesthesia. Can be used for Audio-Effect Bleep with Speechbubbles Interruption. See also Saying Audio Effects Out Loud. Sometimes combines with a Hit Flash.

A fundamental tool of the trade, widely used in Sequential Art in general.

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Examples

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    Anime and Manga

• Calorie-free Novels tend to have these a lot, probably since they are closely related to manga. Especially romantic novels tend to exist filled with audio effects ranging from falling petals, the rain, wind to the fast beating of the man heart.
• Doraemon:
  • In that location's a drink that makes your sound solid, turned information technology into letters. The size is according to how loud you speak it.
  • In "A Globe Without Sound", the characters write various sound effects on paper, such as "Whistle" and "CLAP CLAP".
  • Happens in "Soap Bubbles". When Big K punches Sneech, Sneech's scream is written out equally text.
• Hirohiko Araki (known best for JoJo's Bizarre Adventure) takes this trope very seriously. Very notable written sound effects are ane of the notable traits of his manner and he considers them an integral role of his artwork. Two characters in his series fifty-fifty utilize onomatopoeia as their weapon. The onomatopoeia are even retained to a caste in anime adaptations of the story. Notably, the English localization of JoJo'southward Bizarre Adventure is one of the few manga released by Viz Media that doesn't supersede the Japanese SFX with the English equivilant, instead subtitling it.
• The opening for the second season of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya uses this in the same way american comics practice information technology. One could argue that "Tug" and "Stop" are the Unsound Effect, but everything else fits this.
• An early affiliate in Tsubasa features a battle where the opponent is a vocaliser, who can literally use her phonation as a weapon. The art features HUGE words written out which physically assault the principal characters and stretch the frames of the comic.
• A bizarre example is in Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei, specially the third season. The sound furnishings are actually written on the frame, and they are voiced by the actors.
• Gainax'southward newest Widget Series Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt goes so far as to as well include a few Written Unsound Furnishings, equally if it were a deranged comic.
• Doctor Slump - Arale (unknowingly) weaponizes the Written Sound Effect; her boisterously loud "Due north'CHA!" comes out as solid words and is capable of knocking people off their feet. In another chapter, Akane does this deliberately subsequently getting heckled by one of a flock of Idiot Crows; she calls him a "Wiggle!", and uses the enormous exclamation point produced to knock the crow out of the sky.
• Used occasionally in Hetalia: Axis Powers, most noticeably in the "United States of Hetalia" strips and episode, which imitates American-style comic books. All of them are written in English/Romaji, though some are a fiddling odd (like "spam spam spam" for patting someone on the shoulder) and others Unsound Effects (a cat appearing sounds like "Neko!").
• This was used extensively in a 1970s anime Hajime Ningen Gyatoruzu (or Giatrus). Whenever the characters scream, the word appears on screen as (usually red) rocks, sometimes even hitting the characters physically. Not only that, this trope is how the bear witness's logo appears on-screen in the title sequence, where the grapheme screams "Gya!" really loud, eventually morphing into "Gyatoruzu".
• In Gintama, these are usually played straight, but on one occasion, Gintoki tries to salvage Otae during a universe broad fourth dimension stop by editing the sound of her beingness hit in the head with a rocket dial (Gossu). He initially simply removes a "s" from information technology to go far audio less painful, but ultimately decides to turn it into a stick effigy he calls "Gossan", who's trying to salvage her from the rocket punch past holding it back. It works...so the 2 of them cease up getting married.

    Asian Blitheness

• Happy Heroes: In Season 10 episode 23, Smart S.'s laugh after he defeats one of the game's enemies is written in Chinese text above him.
• In Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf, sounds such equally Wolffy getting hitting or a character yelling often accept written sound effects.

    Comic Books

• The Md Who comics represented the TARDIS's instantly recognisable phasing-in outcome with the as distinctive "VWOOOOORP! VWOOOOOORP''.
• In a classic Uncle Scrooge tale by Carl Barks, Gyro Gearloose invented an "implosion bomb" that sucked upward material in a sure radius and compacted it into a dandy pile. Intended for litter collection, the Written Audio Effect was "MOOB" — explicitly stated to be "Smash" backwards.
• Notable aversion: Many of comics writer Alan Moore's works have no audio effects at all (The League of Boggling Gentlemen remains silent even when people are being beheaded or airships are blowing up). This is lampshaded in Watchmen with this substitution between two police detectives.

  Joe: Incidentally, the phone'due south ringing.
  Steve: Sure. Y'know, all today I've had this funny feeling. It's similar in that location's something in the air...
  Joe: That's sound waves, human being. They're coming from the phone.

• Memorably subverted in The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck: The Cowboy Helm Of The Cutty Sark when the space where the sound effect should have been written is left bare with the caption:
• A Marvel Adventures comic featuring French Boisterous Bruiser Bartroc ze Lepair had all of his sound effects made French. "LeBOK!"
• Speaking of Marvel, they even have trademarked onomatopoeiae, similar SNIKT (Wolverine capsule his claws - temporarily changed to SCHLIKT when he had the adamantium sucked out of his bones), THWIP (Spider-Man casting his webbing) or BAMF (Nightcrawler teleporting).
• The Incredible Hercules peculiarly every bit written by Greg Pak employed this with GUSTO. When Hercules, dressed equally Thor, was fighting Thor, dressed every bit Hercules, and Hercules grabbed Thor by the nipples. The event? "NURP!" (In purple, withal.)
  • The entire fight was like this. Prime examples are:
    • GODDATHUNDAA!!
    • BACKATCHA!
    • SUKKKAPUNCH!
    • NUHHKKRACK!
• "Helm America!, I control you to-" WANK!
• Excalibur once gave us the memorable sound of a bathroom exploding: BA-THROOM!
• Green Arrow fought a serial killer named Onomatopoeia, who merely spoke to describe the sounds he heard (or anticipated hearing.) He'd unremarkably say 'CLICK, BLAM!' before shooting his victims.
• Warrior #1 treats us to "SKRONK," which supposedly represents the Ultimate Warrior's snarling/cough-up-phlegm. He does information technology underwater.
• EPA is the sound of Green Lantern punching Sinestro, co-ordinate to the Comic Book Guy of The Simpsons. Became an Ascended Meme with The Sinestro Corps State of war.
• MAD:
  • Issue #20 had a story told about entirely in pictures with sound effects, simply called "Sound Effects!" Harvey Kurtzman wrote the installment and Wally Wood drew it.
  • Far more well-known was writer/artist Don Martin, who used very odd words like Sizafitz, Blort and Oot Greet. [one]
• Youngblood uses "eepBeep" for the audio of a beeping wrist communicator.
• 19th century German artist/writer Wilhelm Busch invented many written sound effects for his picture stories. Max and Moritz (1865), for example, uses "Ritzeratze!" for sawing wood, "Kracks!" and "Knacks!" for wood breaking, "Rums!" for an explosion, and "Rickeracke!" for a grinding mill. Pious Helene (1872) uses "Klickeradoms!" for the sound of a statuette falling and breaking, and "Klingelings!" when a chandelier crashes to the floor. The dogs Plisch and Plum (1882) are even named later the sounds they made when the bad guy Schlich threw them into a pond.
• In one Achille Talon album, a villain has the (dis)ability to produce sounds completely inappropriate, like a grenade detonating with a klaxon sound.
• Tiny Titans had a lot of fun with this. In addition to the classics such equally "Bam" and the like, information technology included such audio effects as "Run", "Swing", and "Milk".
• John Workman Jr. is well-known for creating impressive sound effects, such as the mighty "DOOM!" of Surtur's forge in Walt Simonson'southward The Mighty Thor.
• The Impaler, the absurd-equally-hell stake gun issued to Vampire Knights in the graphic novel series Requiem Vampire Knight, goes "TEPES!" when information technology's fired.
• A very interesting subversion, from a "Heavy Metal" mag probably (source needed as well): A fight between two barbarians, i is disarmed, but grabs the "T" of a "THUD!" sound outcome and kills his opponent with it.
• And another memorable parody audio effect: the gun which went BLAM! BLAM! EMPT! EMPT!. (Once again, sauce needed.)
• Averted by Warren Ellis, who has stated that he hates sound effects and will employ all kinds of workarounds to avoid using them.
• The same double for Steve Gallacci, the creator of Albedo: Erma Felna EDF, Dog House, Lonely, Together, etc, as he avoids using them every bit much as he tin in his works.
• In Druid Urban center, whenever Ryan Alex Rasheed, aka DJ Onomatopoeia, says an onomatopoeic verb out loud, it is accompanied by a visual sound effect. This ability has been used to misfile and startle people who are unaware of this unique ability. Oddly enough, Ryan appears to be completely aware that he is capable of doing this.
• Ultimate Fantastic Four:
  • 1 example is when an explosion goes FWAAASH.

    Sue Storm: Why didn't you tell me there'd be a FWAAASH?

  • And later; SCHRAMMMM.

    Ben: That'southward the racket I make when I rip a steel door off its hinges.
    Reed: That'south more of a KROOOOM this was more than of a SCHRAMMMM.

• Diabolik has a "Swiisss" whenever the championship character throws a knife at someone or something. It'due south used then much that the 2d reprint collection is titled "Diabolik SWIISSS", and at least one parody had the Diabolik replacement say it whenever he throws a knife.
• The brazillian Comic Monica's Gang has this all over the identify like when someone is hit or on fights obscured by a Big Ball of Violence. Usally combined with a Striking Flash. This besides happens on it'due south Animated Accommodation and it'due south teen spinoff manga.
• Norby: While the comic doesn't utilize sound effects oftentimes, Norby's hyperspace teleportation is given the audio outcome ZTT or ZZT and his punches are written with a WAP.
• The Warrior Cats graphic novels apply written audio furnishings pretty oftentimes. One notable example is in Graystripe's Adventure, after he steps exterior for the first time in moons and is overwhelmed by the scents and sounds: information technology features a two-folio spread covered in diverse sound furnishings alongside oversized flowers.

    Fan Works

• Hetalia: Centrality Powers fanfic Gankona, Unnachgiebig, Unità : At that place were some when Germany and Japan were chirapsia upwardly the homophobe afterwards he attempted to rape Italy.

  Punch. Kick. Stride on...questionable regions.

• Allurement and Switch (STO) describes the sound of a grenade leaving a Grenade Launcher as "something like choonk".
• 'Pchoooooo' is an often-used audio in various Nuzlocke Comics for the audio of a Poke Ball opening. If you don't like using that ane that's fine, just create your own advisable sound instead.
• The Loud Business firm: Revamped likes using "KRABOOOOOOOOOM!" to depict explosions. Sometimes it tin be as long as an essay.

    Film — Animation

• In the first mid-credits scene in The Peanuts Moving picture, Lucy pulls away the football from Charlie Brown and a "WHAM!" appears when he lands on his back.
• Invoked in The LEGO Batman Moving-picture show as an homage to the original 1966 Batman TV Series. (come across quote in a higher place.)
• Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse has these all over the place. Some such equally "Boom!" and "Ponk" appear in appropriately comic book-style big messages in some activeness scenes. Others are modest, such as petty "THWIP"s coming out of the Spiders wrists when web-slinging in some scenes. In one scene, a small "Bagel!" appears when a bagel gets thrown at someone'south head.

    Pic — Live-Activeness

• The Fall of the Business firm of Usher is an experimental 13-minute 1928 brusk film adapting the Edgar Allan Poe story. This very weird silent film has letters that spell out "Scissure", "RIPPED", and "SCREAM" pop upwards onscreen when Madeline exits her bury.
• Nighttime of the Dribbler: The film occasionally has words show up on the screen, such as "Bzzzzzzzz" when 1 of the players gets shocked when the Dribbler drops a TV into the hot tub he's in, and "Bang" when Stan's dad is shot before he can hurt Stan'southward girlfriend.
• Scott Pilgrim vs. The World is a rare live action picture to have this.
• The movie Sssssss. Yeah, that'south the title. Plainly, it'southward about snakes.

    Literature

• I of the well-nigh famous examples in classic literature is the give-and-take "Bababadal­gharagh­takammin­arronn­konn­bronn­tonn­erronn­tuonn­thunn­trovarrhoun­awnskawn­toohoo­hoordenen­thurnuk" from James Joyce's Finnegans Wake. It's supposed to represent the thunderclap that occurred in the Garden of Eden at the Fall.
• The Star Wars Expanded Universe'due south "Jedi Prince" cycle (The Glove of Darth Vader et al) makes extensive use of these, never describing a audio when something like "GRONG!" would suffice.
• The Baby-Sitters Club ghostwriter Peter Lerangis LOVES omnomatopoeia.
• James Joyce's Ulysses had a cat say "Mrkgnao", which he felt a better approximation than "miaow".
• In a literary example, L.E. Modesitt, Jr. likes to use those in his novels, notably in the Saga of Recluce series. By far the most prevalent is the explosive CRRRRRUMMMMMPTTTTT.
• A Song of Ice and Fire does this a few times for warhorns in the altitude. Aaaaarrrrrroooooooooooo!
• If the original embrace art for Doctor Who and the Dinosaur Invasion is anything to go past, a pterodactyl's jaws become "Grand-KLAK!"
• The Animorphs books are addicted of TSEEEEWWW! for Yeerk Dracon beams (not to be confused with TSEEEER! for red-tailed hawk calls), and FWAPP! for Andalite tail-blade strikes.
• MARZENA: *Tick.Tock.Tick.Tock.Tick.Tock.TACK* The Author must be in honey with this trope, it's everywhere.
• The Parafaith State of war: Tends to be used nigh normally for explosions, static, and weapons.
• Imager Portfolio: Tends to exist used almost ordinarily for explosions, and occasionally things breaking.
• Hammer's Slammers: Features this off and on, typically for effect.
• Despite being an entirely serious work, the World War II novel The Naked and the Dead uses these to draw the sounds of battle. BEE-YOWWW, BEE-YOWWWW! BAA-ROWWMM, BAA-ROWWMM.

    Live-Activeness Television set

• The old Batman (1966) Live-Activeness Goggle box series used comic-mode written audio furnishings for The Hitting Flash. "BIFF! ZOK! Pow!".
  • The Simpsons' Batman parody, Radioactive Man, featured these and more, including dorsum references to previous episodes. "BORT! MINT! SNUH!".
  • The Avengers (1960s) parodied a Batman fight sequence in "The Winged Avenger". Also, the comic book writer in the episode uses rather odd onomatopoeia. "Eeee-erp!".
  • Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy in SpongeBob SquarePants use this also, forth with Unsound Effects - punching over paper-thin cutting-outs of villains in their opening sequence produce "PROP", "Paper-thin", and "LAME".
  • Parodied in The John Dredge Zip To Do With Anything Show every bit well during the Gasman & Robert sketch:

  (various fighting noises and the Batman Tv set theme tune)
  Narrator: Hell! Blam! Thwack! Kvetch! Block! Ftwang! Twerge! Genug! Etcetera!
  The Broker: Expletive you, Gasman! You have overpowered me with your onomatopoeic fighting noises.

  • Done every bit a Mythology Gag in Batman and Harley Quinn when Batman fights an entire Bad-Guy Bar of henchman done up like the Adam West-era mooks. However at that place'due south more violence allowed now, and then the words say "Suspension!", "Bleed!", and "OW MY Balls!"
• During one episode of How I Met Your Mother, the sound of drinking glass shattering symbolised a sudden realisation. When a deaf character has a sudden realisation at the cease of the episode, nosotros are treated to a subtitle saying "*shatter*".

• In the That '70s Prove episode "Cat Fight Club", Jackie's fight with Laurie is illustrated past Batman-manner Hitting Flashes and written sound effects like "Meow" and "Scratch!".

• The Adequately OddParents: Adequately Odder: Much like the original series, Cosmo and Wanda's magic is often accompanied by comic book-style sound effects appearing in the trailer.

    MMORPGs

• An addon for World of Warcraft named (appropriately enough) Comix! adds these to the game. When you go a Disquisitional Hit (incoming or outgoing) "Pow!" "Baff!" and and then on appear in midair.
• Champions Online, with its comic book-based style, uses this with NPCs, having written audio furnishings announced over their heads that correspond with the attack they are currently using(with different sound effects for differing types of attacks, such every bit cone AOE, melee AOE, targeted attacks, etc.)

    Music

• "Skronk"—an onomatopoetic rendering of the skreeching honk made by a deliberately-mistreated saxophone—has become a recognized genre classification, though you might be more likely to meet terms like "free improv" or "avant-noise". Equally performances past Arto Lindsay or Oren Ambarchi might attest, a cord- and ear-damaging guitarist tin skronk in every bit great a manner equally, say: John Zorn, Kenta Tsugami (or both) on tenor or alto.
• The first words to appear in "Music Non Stop" by Kraftwerk are "Boing", "Bumm", "Tschak" and "Peng".
• Comic Strip past Serge Gainsbourg and Brigitte Bardot is a song full of onomatopeia: Prune! Crap! Blindside! Vlop! Zip! Shebam! Pw! Blop! Wizz!
• The feature dubstep bass sound (hear it e.g. here at 4:17) is sometimes written as "wub wub wub".
• "Din Da Da" by George Kranz is simply this trope (he imitates drums).
• Chrissie Hynde dopplers a sportscar across the Heart Of The Road: Brrrr-wheyong!

    Newspaper Comics

• "SPLUT!", for the sound a pie makes when it hits Garfield's face.
• Peanuts, of course, has "AUUGHH!"
• Calvin and Hobbes. Paraphrased:

  Hobbes: Are you certain this is such a practiced idea?
  Calvin: Brother! You doubting Thomases arrive the way of more scientific advances with your stupid ethical questions. This is a bright idea! Hit the button, volition ya?
  Hobbes: I'd hate to be accused of inhibiting scientific progress... Here you lot go.
  The push button: BOINK!
  Hobbes: [staring right at the fourth wall] Scientific progress goes 'boink'?
  

    Pinball

• The playfield and cabinet for Tee'd Off show golf balls ricocheting all over the place, accompanied by contrasted BONK!s and ZONK!s.
• In WHO dunnit (1995), starting "Midnight Madness" will result in every hit causing the display to show "Blast", "BLAM", "DOH!", etc.
• The playfield for Magic Girl includes various onomatopoeia such every bit "Poof!", "Mix!", and "Tesla!"
• Deadpool's artwork depicts a number of these, every bit befitting a Marvel Comics game. Of special note is the "Snikt!" target, which is important to upping the Score Multiplier.
• Mousin' Around!: The playfield is littered with comic book-style audio effects.
  • The ii principal ramps are named subsequently the onomatopoeia written on them: "SWOOSH" and "ZIP!"
  • There's a "ZAP!" in front end of the Mouse Hole.
  • The drop-targets necessary to open the loop shot ramp are each labeled with one letter in "Prisoner of war!".

    Radio

• From The Goon Show episode "Ye Bandit of Sherwood Forest":

  Maid Marian: My fiancé, Mr. R. Hood, will come up and fisticuff y'all - he'll hit thee - splat, thun, blat, zowie, socko, blam, thud-biff - he learnt all his boxing from comic strips. Have you always seen a comic strip?

    Tabletop Games

• Legacy from Sentinels of the Multiverse features a carte du jour in his deck titled "THOKK!"

    Theatre

• In The Bible: The Complete Word of God (abridged), the Tower of Babel scene ends when one of the characters threatens the others with a motion picture of a bomb. On the opposite of this motion picture is printed "BOOM!", or, when the bomb-film-thrower is speaking in fake Castilian, "EL BOOMO!"

    Toys

• The BIONICLE comics all utilise this. Probably the most famous sound among fans is the Bohrok's distinctive "Chik Chik Chik Chik". Amusingly, a Translation Train Wreck fan-video of 1 of the movies subtitles the slashing sound furnishings every bit "Hurting Noises!".

    Video Games

• The first video game for the 2003 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles uses audio effects bear witness upwards when someone or fifty-fifty objects similar cars accept damage. Thok
• The boss fights and cutscenes of HarmoKnight comprise these, usually loud sounds coming from none other than the Noizoids themselves. In that location are even sounds like Nail! and BAAAAAAAAAAAAM!
• Tembo the Badass Elephant, a game with the same art managing director every bit HarmoKnight, takes this to the farthermost by having just nearly every audio effect accompanied by one of these. Amongst them are "BOOM" for explosions, "OUCH!" for taking damage, "BADABADABADABADA" for running, and "HRAAAANH!" for the protagonist's battle cry.
• Kingdom of Loathing uses these whenever someone takes damage. If y'all're dealing it, it'southward blue ZAP!s, Pow!s, and BARF!s; while if y'all're taking damage, yous see red Ouch!es and Ow!southward.
• Persona 3, Persona 4 and Persona 5 use this both in and out of combat. Persona 5 especially uses them a lot more liberally, in keeping with the stylish comic book-esque aesthetic. A few examples include groups of chatting people having "Whisper" or "Murmur" written in a higher place their heads, Morgana'due south dialogue in his housecat form being accompanied past "Nya~"s (inverse to "Meow~" for the English version), "BANG!"s filling the screen when Joker uses his Down Shot skill, and even "Pi pi pi"s accompanying Joker's phone ringing.
• Being beaned in the caput with a baseball game in Team Fortress 2 results in a flashing, neon sign above your head, reading "BONK!", which is a fairly accurate clarification of what just happened. And when beingness scared by a ghost in the Halloween consequence, it reads, "YIKES!".
  • The comics use Unsound Effect instead. "PROPERTY DAMAGE! "

• Xiii actually uses them to enhance gameplay, assuasive the player to tell which direction sounds are coming from (like seeing the "tap, tap, tap" of patrolling guards' footsteps over some foliage.)
  • Besides every bit in MadWorld, because of the Sin City inspired asthetic.
• Elite Beat Agents and Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan utilise this a lot, mainly because the stories are told using manga panels. Special mention goes to the ending of Elite Shell Agents, where combined music and goodwill of the world blow up the alien mother transport with a "KA-LAPOWABOOOM!"
• Various sound effects in the black and white (except for blood) game MadWorld appear as yellowish text onscreen.
• Sega Genesis game Comix Zone, happening inside a comic book, is filled with this.
• Many of She-Hulk's attacks in Curiosity vs. Capcom 3 produce i of these, as does Deadpool's fourth Wall Crisis Hyper Philharmonic (y'all know, the i where he hits y'all with his health bar).
• In the 1989 Arcade Game Violence Fight, every fourth dimension somebody got knocked to the floor a written audio effects as "BOGON" or "DOGOON" would pop up.
• In Captain America and the Avengers, comicbook-style fight noises such as "KRAK!" and "WABOOM!" announced on screen.
• Another Marvel game with onomatopoeiae during fights is Spider-Man and Venom: Maximum Carnage.
• Mario Kart 64 has sound furnishings such every bit "POOMP!" when hitting the ground difficult (like from a long jump), and "WHIRRRR" when sliding over a banana peel.
• Rayman 3: Hoodlum Havoc has sound effects appearing on-screen when punching enemies, such as "KOPN".
• Saints Row: The Tertiary's DLC mission pack "Strange Science" includes a sequence where the protagonist, high on irradiated free energy drink, gains the ability to instagib opponents with a punch, consummate with these.
• The credits of Stone Man 4 Minus Infinity rail your deaths under "tiwns", which is supposed to be onomatopoeia for Mega Man's decease sound.
• Astro Marine Corps has "GRONF GRONF" for getting swallowed whole, and also "GLU GLU GLU" for falling into water.
• Star Wars: Battlefront Two has these in the crook-activated Party Manner.
• Super Bonk has Bonk able to launch the discussion "RAGE!" out when he'due south small. The word actually travels forward and bounces off of walls, assuasive the player to utilise information technology as a makeshift platform (in fact, certain sections require this.)
• Since sounds in JauntTrooper provide useful cues most offscreen events, in that location's the option of textual sound effects for players who tin can't or don't want to hear them.
• Growl has "SHBROOM" for Stuff Bravado Upwardly.
• Plants vs. Zombies has a few for plants that explode - "SPUDOW!" for the Potato Mine, and "POWIE!" for the Red Bomb.
  • In Plants Vs Zombies 2 the Cherry Flop has "CHA-BOOF!" instead.
• In Super Smash Bros., dealing plenty damage to the Starman Assist Trophy causes a pixelated "SMAAAAAASH!" to appear above its head, taken directly from Earthbound.
• In Metal Gear 2: Solid Serpent guards become "yaaaaawwwn" and when Snake sneezes a picayune textbox going "Achoo!" pops up (more than hilariously transliterated as "Choow!" in the fan translation.)
• In Xenoblade Chronicles Ten, all of the weapons sold by Nopon Commerce Guild are named after the sound they brand or is associated with them: this ways that their sniper rifles are called "thwippers", dual guns are "bangbangs", gattling guns are "ratatattas", shields are "thudclangs", knives are "pokepokes" and psycho launchers are "fwooshers".
• In Fist of the North Star: Lost Paradise, these volition occasionally pop upwards after killing enemies, apace turning into either powerups or just drop to the ground upon which they can be picked up and used to beat enemies to death. One of these is "HIDEBU!", which is what Fatty Bastard Heart says when he dies in near adaptations (though other villains said it when they died in the anime likewise). Which ones pop upwardly depend on the exact nature of the enemy, the attacks used to kill them, and the location of the fight; at that place'southward an achievement for finding all of them.
• Cuphead existence a behemothic beloved alphabetic character to the quondam cartoons from the thirties, it naturally has a couple examples, like the "HONK"s from oncoming toy cars or "BWAAAAAAAH!"south from animated tubas.
• The discussion "POW!" appears whenever someone is hit in Fight Of Animals.
• The superhero-themed Globe and Sky series uses such effects throughout, becoming more visually impressive over the course of successive episodes every bit the game engine becomes more sophisticated.
• Naruto: Ultimate Ninja: Written sound effects are present throughout the games, mainly when characters hit each other, every bit a style to imitate the manga. However, the English language releases do not translate them.

    Webcomics

• Project0 started with more traditional words and sounds showing up, but more contempo pages tend to make them as integrated as possible
• Girl Genius's Agatha making coffee.
  • And Gil's Mitt-Cranked Runcible Gun goes 'spork! spork! spork!'
  • Hilariously, the sound effects associated with the Jägers is written in the same Funetik Aksent in which they speak. What'southward the sound of a Jäger clapping? Klep! Klep! Klep!
• Parallel Dementia has some practiced examples of the written audio effect at work. Strip #32 shows how the basic choices make a difference. Strip #97 shows how to simulate echoes with layered lettering and connect the action across panels with an extended effect. The side by side link is rather spoilery if you oasis't read the comic yet, but in addition to another example of how written audio effects can give more dynamism to panels frozen in time, strip #341 also has an example of how they tin be used with creative panel arrangements to evidence causality and simultaneity of events in different places.
• Gone Astray [2] uses onomatopoeia past occasionally incorporating them into the art.
• Sluggy Freelance: *ka-click* ordinarily means someone is having or volition shortly have a really, really, really bad twenty-four hours, thanks to a certain lop-ear.
• This strip of Irregular Webcomic! provides a subversion. "You can stop making those silly sword noises".
• Used alongside UnsoundEffects in Charby the Vampirate, especially during fights like the one starting here.
• Geist Panik uses these in combination with Unsound Consequence.
• Sound of a heavy metal air vent cover falling on a human being skull in The Omega Key: CLONG! ONG ONG
• Daisy Owl uses these liberally, and epically.
• Occasionally used/lampshaded in Everyday Heroes:
• The Wotch uses this frequently, especially when one of Anne'due south (male) friends gets transformed into a girl. "Ka-GIRL!"
• Digger uses them, and occasionally has oddly specific ones with the meaning described in a footnote. For instance: "SQUITHMPGLUGH ^note The sound of a large gourd committing a kamikaze attack. Difficult to render phonetically at the best of times.
• Game Destroyers uses this all the time, usually with a particular color surrounding the text to brand information technology stand out from the groundwork. Typically, the sound is placed virtually the thing generating the audio, but it is occasionally placed elsewhere to brand sense with the timing of the dialogue.
• In Impure Blood During this fight scene — and this one as well.
• In Thistil Mistil Kistil, every bit the ship goes to ocean.
• In Galactic Maximum, GZAT!
• In Doodze, numerous, equally they fall.
• In American Barbarian, numerous during the fight, quite often elsewhere.
• In The Adventures of Shan Shan, WHAM! into the gate.
• In Blue Yonder, both RUMBLE! and BEEP!
• In Question Duck, during (claimed) underwater comic book mode adventures.
• In Sinfest,
• In Our Piffling Hazard, BOP for a collision, and WHAMP for letting her fall equally he started to help her up — she apologizes, because that was a stupid time to insult him.
• In Bob and George, the author was introduced with a sound effect. Followed past a more suitable i.
• In Rusty and Co.,
• In Parallels, launching the pod. In outer space. (Perchance the POV is still in contact with the transport, though; that would transmit sound.)
• In Freefall, running in galoshes through mud: G'LOSH, G'LOSH, Yard'LOSH
• In Red's Planet, a character falling over the Inevitable Waterfall lands in a pool: SPLOOOSHH!!!
• El Goonish Shive has used these since the beginning strips along with Unsound Event. Thwump in item seems to be a favorite.
• Rip Haywire, an Affectionate Parody of activity-adventure strips, regularly creates new sound effects by adding "KA-" earlier an appropriate discussion.
• Sexy Losers created, or at least popularized, the audio effect "fap fap fap" for a graphic symbol having A Date with Rosie Palms.
• Due to its vertical strip format, Tower of God tin have long-lasting audio effects written in 1 continuous string over entire sections of a chapter.
• The Perry Bible Fellowship parodies this with Slur, a Luke Cage parody who creates Unsound Effects that audio like ethnic slurs based on who he'due south he fights (punching a Mafia goon creates "WOP!", stabbing a Mexican stereotype creates "SPIK!"). When the Atomic number 26 Fist parody tells him that his fighting mode is "problematic", Slur gain to interruption his back Bane-style, creating the Unsound Effect "CCRRCKKKRRR!"
• Digger makes a Running Gag of footnotes explaining what the proper sound outcome is, why they couldn't use it, and going with the Unsound Effect version instead. Ex: "The correct sound of a wombat beingness hitting in the shoulder with a crossbow bolt is a squishy audio followed by 'thud', but nosotros found that lacked a certain pithiness."

    Western Animation

• Many episodes of Cartoon Network's Backbone the Cowardly Domestic dog had these, forth with the Unsound Effect at times.
• In the Van Beuren Studios Tom & Jerry brusque "Polar Pals", Tom calls to Jerry for help this way when he falls underwater.
• The French animated series Enigma used them from time to time.
• Sometimes used in Ren & Stimpy. One example is when Ren throws the Cheese-o-Phone at Stimpy and the word "Splat!" appears in the splattered cheese.
• Whenever Batfink uses his Supersonic Sonar Radar, it manifests equally the word "BEEP".
• Every time Cosmo and Wanda grant a wish in The Fairly OddParents, a magic cloud that reads "Poof" appears. A lot of times a not–audio-effect word appears relating to what Timmy wished for.
• It happens a lot in fight scenes in Butch's other series, Danny Phantom. They are always followed by comic book-like freeze frames.
• Some of the Grim and Evil shorts of The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy.
• Used in the Henry and June sketches on KaBlam.
• This was a staple of Roger Ramjet, particularly during fight scenes.
• Futurama featured this when Fry, Leela, and Bender became superheroes and fought The Zookeeper and his minions. It parodies the Batman Tv show when Fry punching a yak is covered with "YAK!" Bough getting decked results in "01101010101!"
• The Peanuts animated special, "You're In Love, Charlie Brown," had a couple. When Charlie Brown's alarm clock rings, an "RRRRRRR" appears above it. When he accidentally closes the schoolhouse doors loudly (as he was trying to enter quietly due to being late), "CLICK-Ballyhoo" accompanies it.
• Doubles as a Championship Drop in Crac, when a woodsman is chopping down a tree and "CRAC" appears onscreen as the tree tips over.
• Grojband loves using these, with every episode featuring onomatopeias and other visual sound effects.
• Used in-universe in the animated brusk Shhhhhh, in the hotel social club where they take quietness and so seriously that all objects display a sign with a written sound result: The desk bell extends a "Ding" sign, the clock displays "Tick, Tock" and the bed lamp's switch shows "Click".
• An episode of Duckman features Ajax going off to college as part of a plot by Male monarch Craven. While visiting him at school, Duckman and his family unit are treated to Ajax giving a lecture on onomatopoeia. This becomes a Brick Joke later on when Duckman and Male monarch Chicken fight. The battle spills over to the lecture hall, and they blast through a series of signs with various onomatopoeia written on them while the advisable sound effect plays for each one.
• Strange as information technology seems, Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner had such an instance. In "War and Pieces," the grenade tossed past the coyote hit the arm of a cactus and was returned straight to him. The explosion was punctuated by a clear "Pw."
• "Christopher Crumpet": A "CRASH" appears onscreen when Christopher's toy rocket flies directly through a window. Later there's a "BAM" when the father'southward co-worker slaps a door forcefully on leaving.

    Other

• "The UNH! Project" has amassed a sizeable collection of these.
• Every bit has Kevin Taylor'south KA-Nail! A Dictionary of Comicbook Words on Historical Principles.
• MAD artist Don Martin was a master of wild onomatopoeia, including such sounds as "SPLOYDOING!" (something springing out jack-in-the-box way), "SWAKLAKKO!" (leaning too far back in a wheeled desk-bound chair on a tiled flooring), and a personal favorite, "SKWEEBEEDEEBEEDAP!" (five cockroaches squashed nether a board). Martin himself had a vanity license plate that read "SHTOINK".
  • Spoofed in 1 item result, where information technology was revealed where companies got their names, such as "BOEING!" (the sound an engine makes when information technology falls off a plane and hits the ground) and "SPAM!" (the sound of a slab of said meat product falling out of the can and onto your foot).
  • In some other issue, "Don Martin's Guide to Some Very Obscure Comics Sound Furnishings" had specialized onomatopoeias for famous comic characters performing various deportment. For instance, "THIZ-ZIZ-ZIZ-ZIZ-ZIZ..." represented Spider-Human'southward web-shooters malfunctioning; "SNAP! PLOOBADOOF" represented Wonder Woman taking off her corset; "GEEEEN" represented Plastic Man giving someone on the 20th flooring the finger; and "PLAB-LAB-LAB-LAB-LAB" represented the Batmobile driving off with a flat tire.
  • Yet another (drawn by Paul Coker and written past Duck Edwing) had a like guide to cartoon sound effects. Among them was "Batflurglegloopblub", which is either Batman flushing his toilet, or a fish bravado bubbling into a fatty human's navel.
  • Martin indulged in some self-parody now so: In a Captain Klutz story, after a Mad Scientist gets blown up by his own doomsday device, he seems more concerned nigh the unimpressive sound result it produced.

    Dr. Rotten: "Wango"? After all those years of sweat and toil, my Rotten Atomic Missile goes "wango"?!

  • A MAD self-parody itemize offered for sale an assortment of unused Don Martin sound furnishings, said to include "37 THLUPs, 24 FWAPs, a dozen or so THOOMPs and SPROINGs, plus the usual BREEP-BREEPs, FWADDAPPs, KABOOMs, FWISKs and SKLISHKs, and an occasional SKLOOSH, FLABADAP and a FOONGA-FOONGA."
  • The sound "Bush!" of a defecating moo-cow was in MAD, just probably not drawn by Don Martin.
    • That i came courtesy of John Caldwell, who also drew cartoons for National Lampoon.
• The Angry Video Game Nerd had the Nerd, dressed up as Batman, fighting the Joker in a parody of the campy Adam Due west Batman by having written audio furnishings appearing on screen. Information technology too has random "sound furnishings" similar "BIFF!", "MARTY!", "WAKAKAKA!", and "FUCKBALLS!"

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