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Scream Discretion Shot
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Another of the Discretion Shot siblings, the Scream Discretion Shot is when something horrible and/or unspeakably painful is visited upon a character (whose significance to the viewer varies, but who is usually important to the heroes or the plot on some level), but the viewer doesn't see it directly. This is usually applied to Cold-Blooded Torture, Rape as Drama or a Cruel and Unusual Death. The viewer is often presented with a different visual, such as background scenery, a villain's sinister reaction, or the hero or another sympathetic character looking on in horror, accompanied by the audio cue that lets us know we'd rather not be watching — a protracted scream that goes on for several seconds. It isn't always horror in the classic blood and gore sense. Sometimes it exists in the mind of an individual, and the scream is their reaction to perceived or imagined situations or consequences. But don't confuse it with Distant Reaction Shot. However, the trope isn't strictly death-related, as it can instead be used (even comically) to simply accentuate a person's pain. It may also overlap with a Sexy Discretion Shot, such as a case of the camera cutting away just as the lucky girl screams in orgasm. Another variant is to quickly Fade to Black, followed by her scream. It can also be parodied by having strange items fly at the onlookers and odd noises. The sound of a chainsaw being revved is especially popular. Related to That Poor Cat. For comedic effect, the shot may be accompanied by a Precision F-Strike or a witty quip from the narrator. A subtrope of Sound-Only Death and The Scream. |
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Non-death example: in the Noonbory and the Super 7 episode "Wangury Wants to Fly", the shot cuts to an overview of Toobalooba when Wangury unleashes a shriek of fury after learning that Beavyucks can't fly. | |
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Sleepless Domain: At the beginning of Chapter 4, Heartful Punch meets up with several of her friends at school, and offhandedly mentions hanging out with Undine while on patrol the previous night. Her friends are shocked to hear that the latter is still going out on patrol at all after going through what she did — unbeknownst to HP, Undine's entire team was killed just a few days beforehand. When her friends explain the situation to her, the scene cuts to the school hallway for HP's reaction: | |
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Harry Potter and the Prince of Slytherin: Tiberius Nott trained his Hellhounds to sniff out and hunt down muggles and squibs. When he tries hunting down Harry and his friends, Theo manages to trick him into breaking an Unbreakable Vow, resulting in him instantly losing access to his magic... right in front of said hounds. They smell the difference and turn upon their master, resulting in one of these as Nott is chased off, screaming. | |
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Bellatrix throws Harry and Ron in the dungeon while she personally tortures Hermione. All the boys can hear are her screams. But before this, there is a strong hint that Fenrir Greyback will get Hermione when Bellatrix finishes with her. Try not to think about what this sounds like as the evil werewolf's favorite targets WERE children. And during the entire scene, Ron is about to go berserk which shows just how much he cares for her. | |
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In The Super Mario Bros. Movie, after Luigi shelters from the Dry Bones inside the Dark Lands' castle, he's relieved about not having to deal with them again, only for lightning to reveal Shy Guys and Snifits behind him. The screen conveniently cuts to black and stays like that when Luigi realizes they're after him and screams. | |
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Arrow 18 Mission Logs: After realizing that she just ate meat — and enjoyed it — Twilight quietly excuses herself into another room. Despite shutting the door behind her, Randall can still hear her scream... in fact, it's so loud that it affects the freighter's power supply. | |
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Chadam: The villain kidnaps an artist from their bed, and then as the screen goes black, all we hear is the artist screaming for help. | |
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Played for laughs in Aoi House when Elle finds out Alex and Sandy are not gay. | |
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Unbreakable Diamond, Protean Rain: In the Halloween story And Then There Was Duwang, Ichikawa screams when the classroom lights unexpectedly go off. When they come back on, she continues screaming; Fubiki initially thinks it's an Overly Long Gag before realizing that she's screaming at the sight of what's left of Hazamada, whose head has been impaled on the wall with a pencil. | |
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In Hellsing Ultimate Abridged: this is Father Anderson's reaction to Alucard putting a rainbow-colored banner on the Christ The Redeemer statue reading "420YOLOSWAG4JESUS" note 420 is a drug reference, YOLO= You Only Live Once, Swag is self-explanatory | |
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In the Turning Red fanfic The Great Red Panda Rescue, Mei is kidnapped and one of her captors pulls a knife on her leading to a description of her screams. | |
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Though we don't get it as it is happening, in Sin City, we see Marv get caught near the farmhouse where Kevin, the farm boy cannibal who murdered Goldie lives, and thrown into a dungeon with Lucille, his parole officer, who already lost her right hand to Kevin, and the stump sewn shut. We leave the scene on a bloodcurdling scream from poor Lucille: "HE MADE ME WATCH!" | |
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In Traitor Queen when the king's spymaster Serin tortures a woman in front of Aren to make him talk, we see only a glint of metal and then hear her wordless screaming. | |
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In A Storm of Swords, this is played completely straight when Jaime Lannister's hand is cut off. You "see" the knife flashing through the air, and the chapter ends with his scream. | |
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Ffreire's NaruFox AU: Circumstances lead to Sasuke facing Zaku in their preliminary match. Zaku taunts his opponent, mocking how hard Sakura fought to protect her teammates in the Forest of Death... but when Sasuke gets behind him, he stops laughing. Hard cut to the reactions of the proctor, Kakashi, Naruto, and Sakura as Zaku's agonized screams weave between them. | |
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In the Kane Series story, "Cold Light", Kane's lover Rehhaile is being raped upstairs by Lord Gaethaa's men, while downstairs Lord Gaethaa is talking with his second-in-command Alidore. Their conversation is sometimes interrupted by her screams. | |
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Used at the end of the first scene of the Conan story "A Witch Shall Be Born," when Queen Taramis's Evil Twin Salome, before throwing the queen into the dungeons and taking her place, hands her over to her Dragon, Constantius, to be raped. Here, the audience is shown Salome's expression of sadistic delight as she leaves the scene. | |
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You See Them: After Akechi gains the ability to see the ghosts of his victims, he's informed that he'll be haunted for the rest of his life if he doesn't help them rest peacefully. The new ghost-seer marches off to the bathroom; moments later, everyone hears his muffled shriek of frustration. | |
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Happy Tree Friends: In "Easy Comb, Easy Go", at the barbershop, Lumpy splashes aftershave on his completely flayed chin. Cue a cut to just outside the shop as Lumpy screams in pain. | |
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In To Boldly Flee, we can only hear the Nostalgia Chick's screams as Mechakara...does something to her with a drill. | |
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The Walten Files: Ashley Parks's death in Relocate Project isn't shown on screen, but the screams indicate it to be anything but pleasant. The "Hide-And-Seek" segment of Bunnyfarm ends with Sophie Walten finding out about her mother's death, hearing her screaming as Bon dismembers her. |
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