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Death by Transceiver
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You know it's coming from a mile away when you hear these fateful words: "Here's a two-way radio so we can keep in touch." There is a significantly high chance that one of the characters will get killed while the other can do nothing but listen as their final words or screams get Lost in Transmission by Walkie-Talkie Static. For extra points, add video to the transmission, and have it cut to snow a split second after you catch a glimpse of the horrible monsters that did the deed. Essentially, it's an Apocalyptic Log broadcast live in real-time. It's a convenient way to pull off a dramatic, emotional death scene while the people on the other end conveniently can't do anything about it. It's also an excellent way to add drama when Mission Control doesn't actually know what did the killing — but now they know that whatever it is, it's obviously deadly. This trope is often used in place of a Violence Discretion Shot, though many times the violence on the victim's end is actually shown. A subtrope of Sound-Only Death. See also Snowy Screen of Death and Disconnected by Death. ... TV Tropes! Come in! Do you read me?! TVTropes! Do you copy?! You're breaking up! TVTropes! Respond, dammnit! RESPOND! As a Death Trope, all Spoilers will be unmarked ahead. Beware. |
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In Doom, Fly and the numbskulls guarding him listen to a comrade encountering and being killed by an monster. | |
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Subverted in Maiden Rose, after Klaus and a young cadet accidentally get caught in the enemy line just as it advances for battle, they steal a radio to make contact with their own troops. By the time they get ahold of the Murakumo crew, Yamamoto is panicking and yelling about how the captain is hurt until suddenly there are several gunshots and Yamamoto's screams. After a prolonged static-y silence Taki (on the receiving side) begins to freak out himself before Klaus comes on the line and says everything's under control and they're heading their way. | |
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Strike Commander kills its father figure character this way a few missions into the game. While the Wildcats are busy fighting off an attack on their strike base in Andes Mallorca, James Stern decides to split the party and head to the Generalissimo's palace in an un-escorted cargo plane to collect the payment they're owed. The Wildcats defeat the attackers handily, but while they're waiting for Stern to get back the radio suddenly comes to life as he radios in to report that he's under attack by enemy jets. He manages to send an "I'm proud of you all" message right before the airwaves go silent. | |
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Metroid: Other M has "Samus! What's going on? Respond! RESPOO—-" | |
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Utilized in Jurassic World during the Indominus Rex attack on park security in the jungle. In addition to the camera feeds we also get heart monitors that flatline as soon as the Indominus gets anywhere near them. The trope is used again when the Raptor pack sides with the I.Rex and turns on Owen and his security team. | |
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In Variable Star telepaths are instantly aware when their linked twins die. | |
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A subverted example from DuckTales (1987), "Where No Duck Has Gone Before". After Courage abandons the boys and Launchpad, Scrooge is angrily watching him on the radio when the Kronk ship goes chasing after him and eventually catches the Phoenix. This disrupts the transmission. However, given that it's Launchpad driving the Kronk ship, Courage doesn't get anything more than a bad scare. | |
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In the Metal Gear series of Stealth Based Games , you play a series of agents infiltrating hostile sites with support crew contacting you by radio. The natural assumption when the player gets a Game Over is that Snake has been killed or captured, expressed by the ever-popular cries of "Snake?! SNAAAAAAKE!!" on the continue/quit screen. | |
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The Dark Knight: Harvey and Rachel get to share this, with Harvey hearing Rachel's death. Of course, this is the whole reason they had transceivers in the first place. | |
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In The A-Team episode "Skins", preserve ranger Kim Kaboko drives a jeep to a certain spot and catches a group of poachers. They attempt to bribe him, which he reacts to by attempting to call in backup to apprehend them. The poachers shoot him, and the viewer hears his sister Kamora speaking through the radio, trying to raise him. | |
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Done again in Aliens, with the Colonial Marines' video cameras. The crew left behind see and hear the last moments of several Marines before the screens turn to static. | |
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Traveller: GURPS Traveller may retroactively avert it, though: |
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Treadstone. In "The Cicada Covenant", CIA agent Matt Edwards is declared a Rogue Agent and a Treadstone asset is sent to murder him. As Matt's mobile phone is bugged, everyone at Mission Control gets to listen in horror as he's being choked to death. | |
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Star Trek: The Original Series episode "Obsession". Rizzo's party has encountered the vampire cloud. | |
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Alien: Subverted while the crew are in the alien ship. Kane goes exploring by himself and finds the eggs, all the time talking to the other party members on his spacesuit radio. After the egg opens and an immature Xenomorph attacks him, his radio goes dead. However, the other crew members rescue him. Captain Dallas goes into the air ducts to try to drive the Xenomorph into an airlock and blow it into space. He carries a radio with him to talk to the rest of the crew. They use a tracking device to let him know the alien is getting closer and closer, until it attacks and kills him. |
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The beginning of Congo with the killer gorillas. | |
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Doctor Who: "The Poison Sky", when the Sontarans massacre the UNIT troops. "The Time of Angels", when the clerics are picked off one by one by the Weeping Angels. Except they keep talking, because the Angels are mimicking them. |
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Subverted in Tremors. The other survivors are talking with Burt and Heather Gummer over a CB radio when a Graboid breaks into the Gummers' basement and attacks them. Burt yells "Jesus Christ!" into the radio and the other survivors look at each other sadly, believing that they're as good as dead. Then they hear gunfire coming from the Gummers' house, and we see them blow the Graboid away with high power firearms. | |
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Jonny Quest episode "The Invisible Monster". Dr. Quest receives a frantic ham radio message. | |
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The introduction level of Doom³ has the player character listening to people die over his radio every ten seconds after the hell invasion begins. There is even a console video depicting a scientist having his neck snapped by a zombie before cutting to static. | |
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Godzilla (2014): When the train carrying nuclear warheads is being transported through the area occupied by Femuto at night, just before the bridge scene, Sergeant Morales attempts to contact the train's military advance guard by radio, and the advance guard's screaming and gunfire comes over the radio. Not that Morales or anyone else present takes that as a sign that there might be serious trouble up ahead, leading them to run afoul of the monster that did the deed a few minutes later. | |
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Road of the Dead: Oh, rest assured there's plenty to go around in these games. | |
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The same story was covered in Peter Schilling's "Major Tom (Coming Home)". Subverted on this version as the next verse implies that the Major Ascended to a Higher Plane of Existence. | |
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GURPS Traveller may retroactively avert it, though: | |
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Strangely inverted and parodied in DOOM: Repercussions of Evil as John is somehow turned into a zombie by talking into his radio. | |
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