Notoriously unemotional Major Kusanagi is trapped by the device, and at the climax of the Film, she actually cries. Playing is a certain obscure director's last Film, which he never shot, which contains images so profoundly emotional, that intruders never want to leave, only remain and watch the Film. The intruder is placed in a virtual environment of an old fashioned theater, along with the trapped minds of those that came before.
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This is possibly based on the myth of the Hungarian song "Gloomy Sunday" (see Real Life below).To spare the viewers of such a fate, Beethoven's "Ode to Joy" is played. The villains' plan is to broadcast it around the world and wipe out the weak-minded. The Read or Die OVA revolves around a symphony that causes anyone who listens to it to become suicidally depressed.For a practical application in science fiction to showcase harmful energy sources, try Showing Off the Perilous Power Source. See also Loud of War, Make Me Wanna Shout and Musical Assassin for specific forms of sound-based attack. If you aren't affected right off the bat, perhaps You Cannot Grasp the True Form or You Are Already Dead. Contrast with Gale Force Sound, where the sound has a physical effect, not a psychological one, and Incessant Music Madness, where repetitive music drives a person to distraction. See also Weapons Grade Vocabulary if its simply straight words, spoken or read. It may occasionally serve as a type of MacGuffin.Ĭompare Words Can Break My Bones, some of which have similar effects given by single words, written or spoken, and are by magic. Can overlap with Suckiness Is Painful, when the note is a really bad work. A lighter version used for torture would be Cool and Unusual Punishment. Musical examples are extreme cases of Hell Is That Noise, Ear Worm or possibly The Power of Rock.
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When it is specifically a book, it can be a Tome of Eldritch Lore or a form of Reality Writing Book. If it's not harmful itself, but summons or draws the attention of a harmful entity, then it's a Speak of the Devil. The Brown Note is named for the urban legend about an audio tone that, when played, causes the listener to lose control of their bowels and spontaneously defecate. Usually, we don't get to see or hear it ourselves. This can range from wounding/killing someone, causing them to go insane, or become obsessed with it to the exclusion of all other things (including eating, drinking, sleeping, and yes, even troping). The Brown Note is a sensory input - usually a sound, image, or written work - that has an inherently harmful physical or psychological effect on anyone who hears/sees/reads it.