This's a Skywalker Sound sound effect, probably designed by Richard Beggs. It made its debut in Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988).
Used in[]
TV Shows[]
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2D Animated Series)
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars (Heard once in "Downfall of a Droid" and "The Zilio Beast" when the proton bomb explodes)
- Star Wars: Rebels (Heard once in "In The Name of the Rebellions" Part 1)
Movies[]
- A Bug's Life (1998) (Heard once in a low volume when Dim falls to the ground.)
- China: The Wild East (1994) (Used for a nuclear explosion)
- Cloverfield (2008)
- The Dark Knight (2008)
- Despicable Me (2010)
- Hercules (1997)
- The Iron Giant (1999)
- Iron Man (2008)
- The Island (2005)
- Mission: Impossible (1996)
- My Way (2011)
- Nimona (2023)
- Over the Moon (2020)
- Saving Private Ryan (1998)
- Shin Godzilla (2016)
- Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002)
- Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005) (Accents some explosions, more or less small, on Mustafar)
- Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi (2017) (Used for the gate's explosion from the battering ram cannon)
- Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) (Used for the Nuclear Nightmare.)
- Threads (1984) (Remastered only)
- Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988) (debut)
- Volcano (1997)
- Young Indiana Jones: Masks of Evil (1997) (A modified variant is used once to accent thunder.)
Anime[]
- Hyperdimension Neptunia: The Animation (Heard once in episode 3 in a low volume.)
Image Gallery[]
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Audio Samples[]