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Terrible Ticking
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A character goes mad from a sound that only they can hear. Because of this, they may go Ax-Crazy and try to destroy the source of the sound, or at least what they think is the source of the sound — or end up resorting to Headphones Equal Isolation, abandoning the world in favor of just getting away from the horrible noise. Perhaps the Trope Maker is The Tell-Tale Heart, where the narrator goes mad from the sound of a dead man's heart beating. "Ticking" allows for Alliterative Name. The noise of a clock ticking is a very common motif — especially if it underlines a theme of time running out. Other popular motifs include a noise like someone (or something) breathing, very distant music, some extremely annoying sound such as scraping or scratching, or a heartbeat. Another possibility is for new telepaths to go mad from all the voices around them. Compare Hell Is That Noise, Brown Note, an awful sound that anyone can hear, and Bloody Hallucinations of Guilt, when one's guilty conscience regarding another's death has them hallucinating blood. See also Hearing Voices, which is technically a subtrope. Unrelated to Why Am I Ticking?, which is terrible for a different reason. Examples |
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Tales from the Crypt: "For Cryin' Out Loud" has a corrupt nightclub owner (played by Lee Arenberg) kill a woman, then imagine his Shoulder Angel (voiced by Sam Kinison!) admonishing him for it. In an attempt to shut it up, he jams tissue and Q-tips in his ear. Later, he stumbles into the club and sees everyone staring at him; assuming that they can see his guilt, he screams a confession to all of them... only to realize that they were actually staring at the wad of cleaning items sticking out of his ear. The story has similarities with The Telltale Heart. | |
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Abraxas (Hrodvitnon): Ghidorah's Slowly Slipping Into Evil in its backstory was caused by Terrible Ticking called "the Old Noise", an aggressive sound which causes the mind to scream attempting to block it out and which, in the original language of Ghidorah's creators persistently screamed at Ghidorah to "Kill Them All". Monster X has inherited a mild form of it from Ghidorah, which only stirs up when Monster X is on the brink of insanity or hearing an ORCA signal. | |
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The Climax: Dr. Hohner is haunted by the singing of Marcellina: the mistress he murdered because he was jealous of her voice which was taking her away from him. | |
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Cromartie High School had a chapter of the manga, also adapted into the anime, which completely centered on the entire school trying to figure out what one song stuck in Hayashida's head was. | |
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Redwall: Aquaphobic villainess Queen Tsarmina is driven to insanity by the sound of dripping water, which her minions assume are the normal noises from the underground lake. Subverted in that it's not her imagination; the good guys have dammed the river and are causing said lake to overflow and slowly flood the castle. Then the noise goes away, and Tsarmina is at peace; except the reason it's gone away is that now it's not just dripping, there's too much water for that. Gabool the Wild is kept awake by the sound of a stolen church-bell in his hall ringing on its own, though on one occasion it's not his imagination; his drunken followers throw apples at the bell while he's out of the room. |
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The sitcom Cheers did a homage/parody of "The Telltale Heart" in one episode; Diane is trying to guilt Carla into a confession, and after outlining Poe's story, keeps making "heart beat" noises. After several rounds of this, Carla hears the noise, finally snaps and yells at Diane to quit it, only to learn that Diane is way off in the other room... | |
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The Simpsons: In "Lisa's Rival", Lisa steals and hides Allison's diorama for a school presentation (on Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart, appropriately enough), but her guilty conscience causes her to hear an actual heart-beat until she caves in and returns the stolen diorama. | |
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Scanners: Cameron Vale has to tell a telepathy-suppressing drug in order to go out in public or even sleep in his hotel room, because the thoughts of everyone around him are too much to handle, and as explained toward the beginning, the constant telepathy all his life has basically stopped him from developing any sense of self, turning him into a complete dysfunctional wreck. In the backstory of the film's villain, Darryl Revok, we learn that he went mad from it, and there's a taped conversation where he insists that it's not just voices in his head, but entire people, and he drills a hole in his forehead trying to get them out. | |
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iCarly: The beeping that Freddy hears in the back of his head in "iGo to Japan". He doesn't know it, but the beeping is the tracking device in action that Mrs. Benson had implanted in his head when he was a baby. | |
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In Heroes, the ticking clock sound effect that plays whenever Sylar's up to his old tricks evokes this trope. Even though it's not literally a ticking he can hear, it symbolizes that he can see how everything works in a way no one else can, which drives him batty. | |
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In The Night Unfurls, this happens to Celestine whenever she is in proximity to Kyril, due to her high Insight. The sound that only she can hear is described as a constant, maddening rumble, akin to the sound of thunder and waves crashing against the shore. When Kyril displays Tranquil Fury in Chapter 12 and 13 of the remastered version, the sound intensifies into a noice heard in the midst of a storm. Though she has not been driven mad by the sound, it does frighten her every time this happens. | |
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In one of the short stories from Everything's Eventual, a maître d’hôtel flips out and starts killing people, while shrieking about a barking dog that only he can hear. Or possibly one that had barked at him once years ago. It's a little word salad-y. | |
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In The Alvin Show episode "Squares," Mrs. Frumpington (a society matron trying to put the kibosh on anything hip) mistakes the stoccato dripping of a leaky faucet as the beat of the contemporary hip music she detests. Dave sets her straight on it. | |
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In Dead Rising 2, the protagonist's encounter with the mad postalworker Carl Schliff is punctured by his tense theme music, which is permeated by a ticking sound which gets more prominent the more Carl flies off the handle- more to the fact that Carl has actually turned into a Mad Bomber during the Zombie Apocalypse and tries to pass off one of his bombs to the player, who realizes in time that the package is ticking, before disposing it, which then drives Carl to try to murder the player in more conventional weapons. | |
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SCP Foundation Hearing this is a symptom of being infected with SCP-217 ("The Clockwork Virus"). SCP-472 ("The Bloodstone"). Anyone within 18 meters of SCP-472 will hear the distant beating of their own heart. Listening to the heartbeat causes negative psychological symptoms. The longer the subject listens to the heartbeat the worse the symptoms become, starting with unease, anxiety and guilt and eventually leading to paranoia, hallucinations and catatonia (with a 76% chance of death). SCP-4975 ("Time's Up") is a predator that makes a rhythmic click-clack by rotating its neck vertebrae, which only those it has chosen to hunt can hear. As it hunts them persistently for months on end, this usually results in them being at their wit's end by the time the creature ceases with the ticking... which, unfortunately, always means it's about to kill them. |
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Yu-Gi-Oh!: Yami Yugi gives this as a punishment to a karaoke-obsessed bully after he loses a Shadow Game to him, forcing him to hear his own heartbeat pounding in his ears like thunder. | |
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Homicide: Life on the Street: "Heartbeat" (a homage to The Tell-Tale Heart and the works of Edgar Allan Poe in general) had a drug dealer who was haunted by the sound of his victim's heartbeat. He eventually cracks due to his guilt and commits suicide. | |
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A water faucet drives Donald Duck crazy in the short Drip Dippy Donald, and an alarm clock in the Mickey Mouse Works-era short Hickory Dickory Mickey. | |
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Higurashi: When They Cry: It's not uncommon for one of the characters to start hearing footsteps, or occasionally a voice saying "I'm sorry" over and over. This is usually a sign that that said character is about to go off the deep end. Most of the time someone ends up dead. Much to the unhappiness of the being that was making the footsteps and apologizing. | |
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Soul Eater: Stein has something like issue in the anime whilst he's with Medusa. | |
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Arthur C. Clarke's Childhood's End has the invading aliens' ambassador explain to the Earth Ambassador the useful application of energy capable of ending nations by comparing the results of the assassination of a hypothetical dictator to simply causing an unceasing, constant ticking noise within his head. | |
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xkcd In this strip the protagonist keeps hearing "unn-tss" sounds since he murdered Daft Punk. Subverted in Source. The protagonist is searching for the source of the strange buzz he keeps hearing in an empty room, and finally finds that it is caused by a machine in the basement. |
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In Dragon Ball Z Abridged, Bulma attempts to reprogram Android 16 while repairing some damage he sustained. While tinkering in his mind, she discovers a program that's apparently been running the entire time 16 has been active, flashing, violent images and KILL SON GOKU, repeated constantly in his father's voice. Bulma determines this to be a load-bearing program and leaves it in place. | |
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Sigma from Overwatch has a piano melody that plays in his head after his Freak Lab Accident, with it and his "imprisonment" slowly wearing away his sanity. It's greatly implied by his rambling descriptions that it's some kind of proverbial code for the fabric of reality, in turn influencing his gravity powers. | |
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During the "Overlord" DLC for Mass Effect 2, a giant polygonal head keeps popping up on computer screens and making this awful noise. It sounds like gibberish at first, but grows clearer with each repetition, until you realize it's the lead scientist's autistic brother begging for someone to help him. The constant sensory input from the rig he's hooked up to has really done a number on him. | |
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Chrono Crusade: Joshua gets the telepath variant when he gets Chrono's horns stuck on his head. He complains about "the noise" and uses his new powers to "stop the time" of the people around him, freezing them in stone. | |
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In Insomnia, the main character Ralph can hear a soft ticking in his head which he calls the "deathwatch" when a person is about to die. He first heard it when his wife was dying of brain cancer. Near the end of the novel Ralph hears the deathwatch again, and knows that this time it's counting down for him. | |
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Tower of London (1962): Richard is haunted by the mocking laughter of those he murdered in order to gain the throne. | |
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In the televised miniseries I, Claudius, Caligula goes mad, partly due to the sounds of running horses which only he can hear. (The series implies he was nuts from the beginning, and only got worse after he suffered an illness.) Caligula himself claims that, as a god, he hears many things that keep him from sleeping, and that's one reason he acts so strangely. | |
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Popeye did this in the short "Me Musical Nephews", destroying a radio before discovering that his nephews weren't really asleep. | |
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In Knights of the Borrowed Dark, when Grey is enthralled by the Clockwork Three, he hears constant ticking inside his head, which mostly just seems to serve as another method of torture. Once the Three are killed, all he can do is sob in desperate relief that the ticking is gone. | |
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In a The West Wing fanfic called "The Joshua Monologues", Josh gets revenge on CJ, Sam, Toby, and President Bartlet after a prank gone bad by getting devices from the CIA which will beep very faintly (so only the prankees will hear them) and putting them in his coworkers' respective offices. | |
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Code Geass: Mao was driven mad by the constant thoughts of everyone around him. He wore headphone to block it out. This made him a yandere for C.C. because she was the only person whose mind he couldn't read. | |
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In an episode of Disney's The Legend of Tarzan, Tarzan's animal friends go crazy, complete with the Madness Mantra "Stop the ringing!" Turns out the local trading post had installed a long-range radio tower, and something in the equipment was generating an ultrasonic noise that was doing this to Tantor, Terk, and the rest. The humans couldn't hear it, but it was driving the animals nuts for miles. | |
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Several stage adaptations of A Christmas Carol play up the ticking clock aspect to show Scrooge is getting on in his years and the limited amount of time he has to change. | |
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Young Sheldon: In "A High-Pitched Buzz and Training Wheels", Sheldon is tormented by a buzzing noise coming from the refrigerator that the others can barely hear. It gets so bad he takes the fridge apart to fix it. | |
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Hook: Despite having killed and stuffed the crocodile Hook is still afraid of the sound of ticking clocks. It's later revealed that he's scared of time ticking away. | |
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Mr. Krabs in the SpongeBob SquarePants episode "Squeaky Boots". He unloads a pair of old boots on SpongeBob and is driven crazy by their constant squeaking. He steals them one night and hides them under the Krusty Krab's floorboards, but after seeing how torn up SpongeBob is about "losing" the boots, Krabs starts to hear squeaking everywhere until he is Driven to Madness, a Whole-Plot Reference to Tell-Tale Heart. | |
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Warhammer 40,000: In the first Gaunt's Ghosts novel something like this occurs, with some twists. The noise is the beating of drums, and everyone can hear them. The drums in question are set up by Chaos cultists and number in the hundreds. Prolonged exposure to them cause the Ghosts that are nearby to lash out violently, and one of them is corrupted by Chaos as a result. | |
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In a Judge Dredd strip paying Homage to The Tell-Tale Heart, a jealous man who murders and, literally, steals the heart from the lover of a woman whom he adores from afar is driven insane by the sound of his victim's still-beating heart, which he then decides to get rid of by returning the body part to the woman in person (and, consequently, completely freaking her out). | |
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Doctor Who: In the Series 3 finale, the Master claims to have been hearing the sound of drums in his head all his life from when he was 8. Duh-duh-duh-DUM. Duh-duh-duh-DUM. It's interesting to note that he seems to like it, the way you can like something you've had all your life. He doesn't know what he'd be without that sound. When he's revived during "The End of Time", he says he's missed the drums. In "The End of Time", it's revealed that he wasn't just insane, the Time Lords put the drumming in his head as part of a plan to try and save themselves from death in the Time War. It's noted that the rhythm of four drumbeats is the same rhythm as the double-beat of a Time Lord's two hearts. Interestingly, it's also the same underlying beat found in the famous Theme Song, so one wonders if that was intentional... |
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Todd in the Shadows compares the beat of LMFAO's "Sexy And I Know It" to this trope, specifically the Edgar Allan Poe usage. | |
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A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong: Scrooge's opening monologue has him bedeviled by a clock and its chimes, feeling it's always staring at him. | |
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The song "All Along the Watchtower" does this to four Cylons at the end of Battlestar Galactica (2003)'s third season. | |
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Anthrax: "(Time!) Got the time tick-tick-tickin' in my head / (Time!) Got the time tick-tick-tickin' in my head / (Time!) Got the time tick-tick-tickin' in my head / Tickin' in my head / Tickin' in my head / Tickin' in my head" | |
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In the backstory of NieR, hearing bells ringing in your ear is a sign that the White Chlorination Syndrome is driving you mad, and you'll soon turn into Legion. | |
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Star Wars Legends: In the Jedi Academy Trilogy, Luke seeks out a Force-Sensitive hermit, Streen, to recruit for his academy. Streen agrees to leave only if Luke teaches him to block out the thoughts and feelings of other people, which had overwhelmed him into hermitude. | |
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The Bull of the West: Whenever Ben Justin is under stress, he hears a rattlesnake rattling inside his head. | |
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Mr. Heckles on Friends. It must be noted that the level of noise isn't in in his head, it's more of a case of Malevolent Architecture creating absolutely teethgrinding acoustics. In "The One Where They're Up All Night", Phoebe is kept up by her fire alarm beeping. She smashes it and it still beeps. She puts on earmuffs and a hat to drown out the noise and also tries throwing it out. |
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Gaslight: As an aversion, one character tries to convince another that the light isn't flickering, it's just them going crazy. | |
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Star Trek: The Next Generation: In "The Survivors", an alien (disguised as a human) plants the sound of a music box in Counsellor Troi's head so she won't be able to detect him with her empathic abilities. The sound drives her to madness, so he removes it once his identity is revealed. | |
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