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 | Rose: They're rats! Dozens of rats, vacuum-packed rats. —Doctor Who, "School Reunion" |  |
As a tough masculine fighter, you never cry, never wince at a hit, and talk in amanly baritone. But it's amazing how aGroin Attack,little needle, orgarter snake can make your voice rise four octaves into a three-year-old's scream. It seems inherently funny to see this grown man emit a girly scream. This trope is usually played for laughs, as it is hard to take the image of a man whoScreams Like a Little Girl seriously. This is sometimes associated with aCamp Gay or theNon-Action Guy character.
Comedy-based logic dictates that the more butch the guy is, or the more he runs his mouth about being tough, or the lesser the actual danger is, the funnier it is when he screams like a girl.
See Also:The Scream,Screaming Woman,Screaming At Squick.
Examples of Screams Like a Little Girl include:
Anime and Manga
- Kyon's theme song fromHaruhi Suzumiya includes one of these for no apparent reason (he NEVER does this in the manga or anime).
- Gintoki ofGintama fame occasionally lets out a comical scream of this nature when he's subjected to something he finds particularly horrifying.
- Code Geass: Even anti-heroes scream in high-pitchedvoices
- Nozomu's "IIIIIIYYYYYYAAAAAAA!!!!!!" fromSayonara, Zetsubou-sensei. One of the funniest instances is when he does this after the girls see him naked during theHot Springs Episode, and theDeadpan Snarker Abiru lampshades that "that should be our reaction".
- North Italy inAxis Powers Hetalia at one point screams "Kyaaaa!"
- America as well.
- Zoicite screams like a girl when confronted by rats in the original Japanese version ofSailor Moon. And people wonder why he was rewritten as a female in the English dub. Later in that same scene, Zoicitescreams "AAAAAAAAAAAAHHH! IT'S A WALL OFRAAAAAAAAAAAATS...!"
- Early inAzumanga Daioh, a war against a cockroach begins after a very high-pitched scream erupts from one of the students. Afterward, it's revealed the source of that scream was Sakaki who, while being an actual girl, is alsoTall, Dark and Bishoujo and normally has a deep voice.
- Ramiel, the octohedral angel fromRebuild of Evangelion.
- In thePokémon anime, Cilan lets out avery girly scream in one episode.
- From episode 18 ofYu-Gi-Oh GX:
| Jaden:(Crowler screams offscreen) Someone's in trouble! | |
- In anyEcchi anime, whenever the guy walks in on a girl taking a bath, you'd expect the girl screaming at the guy. This is not the case inHigh School DxD when Issei walks in on the bathroom while Asia was still inside.He's the one screaming and trying to cover himself instead of the other way around.
Comic Books
- Used inDeadpool's series to humorous effect (what did you expect?)
| Sabretooth: Scream for me. | |
- Sue Storm calls herself on this in the first arc ofUltimate Fantastic Four, to the confusion of her teammates. "I screamed like a girl! That's so disappointing."
- Empire State gives us this bit of dialogue:
| Jimmy: Sara, I was so scared I wanted to scream like a girl. | |
Film
- Beauty and the Beast: Nobody screams like a girl whilefalling to their death like Gaston!
- Lampshaded in Disney's version ofMulan, with adviser Shi Fu's line, "I do not scream like a girl."This is, of course, immediately followed by the girliest scream imaginable.
- Made even better in the commentary when the directors and writers discuss how the screenwriter voiced the girly scream, and he was a man. They tried getting a real woman to scream, a child to scream, but decided to keep the screenwriter's scream, because "no-one can scream like a little girl like he can."
- President Buffoon inMonsters vs. Aliens shrieks like a frightened girl the first time he sees Ginormica. Especially amusing since the previous four identical girly screams were from anactual girl. The scene is even funnier when you consider that Ginormica was the only one of the monsters that scared him. Shows that a powerful, unstoppable woman is what all men fear most—even the President!
- In one of the trailers for the CGI filmChicken Little, the title character's father warns him that in a few seconds he's going to scream like a little girl as they try to avoid the meteorites being hurled upon them. Sadly,this never happens in the actual film.
- FromFlushed Away:
| Spike: Any last requests? | |
- InThe Road to El Dorado, upon both Miguel and Tulio (pictured above) seeing the giant stone Jaguar activated by Tzekel-Kan, they perform a seldom seen double girly scream.
- Roxanne points out thatMegamind does a pretty good example.
- Lampshaded inResident Evil: Degeneration when Claire and the other survivors are holed up in the small office they hear a high pitched scream and Claire decides to investigate. A few scenes later she comes back with an unknown man and people ask where the "girl" is.
- InOpen Season, Ian the Stag, manliest of Mule Deer, is galloping gracefully with his herd across the river when the floodwater comes down. Mid-leap he turns to look at the rushing water and gives a girly scream just as it hits.
- A scene from the classic 1980's comedySilent Night Deadly Night demonstrates how aman screaming like this can turn horror intoNarm.
- Home Alone
- Marv (Daniel Stern's character) screams like a woman whenhe gets a tarantula put on his face by Kevin in the first movie and when he's attacked by birds in the second.
- In the third movie, the only one that didn't feature Kevin as the protagonist and Marv as the antagonist, we havethis Groin Attack scene; it's more like singing than screaming, really.
- Maybe that's just the way Daniel Stern screams, as it also shows up inCity Slickers II
- In an ironic exception, Ichabod Crane fromTim Burton'sSleepy Hollow does practically everything like a little girlexcept scream.
- And, conversely, the heroine ofRaiders of the Lost Ark lets loose a series of decidedly tomboyish screams when she's trapped in the Well of Souls—and, ironically, while wearing a lacy white gown.
- When trapped in a laboratory with Count Dracula and Frankenstein's monster inAbbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein,Lou Costello screams like a girl... twice.
- Accepted has Jonah Hill screaming like a little girl upon finding a corpse:"It would be really cool if you guys didn't tell anyone I scream like that..."
- Mystery Science Theater 3000 movies:
- Arguably the best moment in the excellent episodeSpace Mutiny was the big finale where the hero,Dave Ryder, emits anenraged one of these just before calmly hopping out of the"space buggy" he's about to ram into the bad guy.
- Earlier...
| Ryder:(surprisingly high-pitched scream) | |
- Reb Brown again, inYor, the Hunter from the Future.
- And, heck, Reb Brown in any testosterone-fueled action film. He makes itwork.
- Transformers
- When attacked byAlice inTransformers: Revenge of the Fallen, the first thing Sam does when he gets his breath back is to scream. Then scream some more. Then scramble out of the room, screaming. Understandable though, under the circumstances.
- Sam has anotherabsolutely hilarious one during the highway chase of the next sequel,Dark of the Moon. During the chase, one of the Decepticons deliberately topples over a truck carrying construction pipes, right in front of Bumblebee (who has Sam inside him). In order to avoid getting hit, Bumblebee transforms, jumps over the truckwhilst throwing Sam over it as well, then grabs him in mid-air before they hit the ground, and transforms back into vehicle form whilst putting Sam back into a perfectly seated position. Sam, having gone through the entire transformation process whilstinside Bumblebee, freaks out as soon as he's back in his seat.
- When running from a series of explosions and gunplay inThe Fifth Element, radio host Ruby Rhod screams incessantly like a little girl through several minutes of scenes.
- InWhat's New Pussycat, Woody Allen is getting cozy with Romy Schneider at his grubby little artist's garret—he produces a cigarette and suavely lights it—and burns his finger. He excuses himself, gets up and rushes to the bathroom, pulls shut a flimsy curtain to close it off, and lets out a shrill girly scream (causing her to jump) -- he emerges a moment later with an insouciant swagger.
- Jesse, the main character ofA Nightmare On Elm Street Part 2 Freddys Revenge.
- The Lord of the Rings: Merry and Pippin stole Gandalf's best firework and light it prematurely --while inside a tent. When it actually goes off, Pip lets out the girliest scream you can imagine. Billy Boyd didn't know that the thing wasactually going to explode, so the scream is real. Also, according to the commentary, during said scene, Boydwet himself, earning the amusing nickname "Pissylegs".
- Fans loveStargate Atlantis actor David Hewlett's scream, and it makes for great comedy several times in his movieA Dog's Breakfast.
- Averted and then Invoked in the film version ofSpawn. After Al realizes that he's been dead for five years, he lets out a primal scream. The Violator then says "Aww, c'mon! You scream like a little girl! Scream like a man! Here, like this!"and then lets out a very shrill, high-pitched, feminine shriek.
- Near the end ofRear Window, when Mr. Thorwald throws Jeff out the window a woman's scream is dubbed over his as he falls.
- Eli Sunday inThere Will Be Blood, particularly when he's getting slapped around by Daniel.
- InKiss Kiss Bang Bang, when Harry getselectro-tortured his screams are remarkably high-pitched (although it's somewhat justified considering thepart of his body that is being shocked). This comes off as either hilariously funny or disturbing, depending on how screwed up you are.
- In a particularThe Three Stooges short set during theCivil War, in order to get rid of a couple of Confederate soldiers, Curly sneaks up on them and putsants in their clothes, and the two soldiers fled scooting their butts on the ground and screaming like little girls.It's much more hilarious when you actually see it.
- Ben Stiller in thezipper incident inTheres Something About Mary. The policeman arrives saying that someone "... heard a girl's scream."
- Jason inMystery Team.
- Wesley Gibson (played by James McAvoy) spends about 20 minutes in the beginning ofWanted doing just this after Fox (Angelina Jolie) takes him on a wild car chase.
- AScary Black ManGiant Mook gives one of these right before he dies inTransporter 2.
- Van Pelt, the villain ofJumanji, is pretty much prone to this trope. He's launched on a boat at high speed into a wall, literally!
Literature
- Played rather seriously in oneDoctor WhoEighth Doctor Adventures novel. AMind Control device isinjected into the Doctor's brain by a guy called Svadhisthana. Quite understandably, the Doctor screams, which Svadhisthana's crony finds funny. The reader probably won't, because, come on, you'd scream like a little girl too if there was a needle in your brain.
| Svadhisthana and a needle. Pain in the base of his skull, a hot lance into the centre of his mind. | |
- And deployed strategically in another book when yet another mad scientist tries to vivisect him:
| The Doctor let out a piercingly shrill scream. He’d had a number of travelling companions who used to do much the same thing, and he was pleased with the effect it had now. For added effect, he fluttered his hands at the extremes of their restraints. | |
- The Dresden Files: If Harry Dresden and someone else are in a car and the appearance of something scary causes someone to scream in a high-pitched manner, it was the other person and most certainly not Harry.
- Bernard Cornwell likes this trope. One FrenchGiant Mook gives a "weirdly high-pitched scream" whenSharpe stabs him in the balls with a broken telescope. Sharpe'ssergeant, Pat Harper likes to do this, although this is because he is imitating ancient Irish heroes like Cu Chulainn. Plenty of redshirts do this, and oneBig Bad plans to do this to another Cornwell hero,Uhtred of Bebbanburg:
| Kjartan the Cruel: Now is not the time to make you scream like a woman. | |
- InThe Martian, Mark Watney is painfully injured and ...
| I didn't want to distract the people who were saving my life, so I muted my mic and screamed like a little girl. | |
Live-Action TV
- In theSoap OperaPassions, Ethan was attacked by a demon fromthe Bennett's closet to Hell. The shriek he let out was very girlish. So girlish in fact, many people commented on it on the internet and one of this Troper's co-workers said, "Not even my three-year-old girl screams like that!"
- InCastle, the title charactergives one when a dead body tumbles out of the fridge he opens. Naturally, he attempts to protect his dignity by covering it up as a cough. Surprisingly, no one comments on it.
- Frasier. Both Frasier and Niles scream like a girl.
- In the episode "Boo!":
| Frasier: That is not funny! You don't sneak up on someone and startle them! | |
- In the episode "Don't Go Breaking My Heart", after a womanly high-pitched scream was heard.
| Daphne: Are you all right? | |
- Friends. Ross screams like a little girl when Rachel and Phoebe come out of his apartment's curtains and shout danger to scare him.
- Will and Grace, where Grace's apartment got burgled.
| Will: Did I just scream like a woman? | |
- The X-Files
- In the episode "War of the Coprophages", Mulder has a discussion with Scully regarding a childhood encounter with a praying mantis...
| Mulder: I had a praying mantis epiphany, and as a result I screamed. No, not... not a girly scream, but the scream of someone being confronted by some before unknown monster that had no right existing on the same planet I inhabited. | |
- In a later episode with the same writer ("Jose Chung'sFrom Outer Space"), we get to hear Mulder's girly scream upon spotting "a real live dead alien body"—at least according toone version of the story.
- Adrian Monk ofMonk.
- In "Mr. Monk Goes Camping",when the eponymous obsessive detective encounters a bear, the previews feature actor Tony Shaloub's own scream, whereas the scream in the episode isoverdubbed with a little girl's.
- Supernatural
- Dean does this hilariously in the episode "Yellow Fever", when he's infected with a paranormal curse that makes him scared of quite literallyeverything. Including cute little lap dogs with pink bows.
- And in themeta episode "The French Mistake", when the character of Misha Collins is kidnappedand then murdered by an angel, he does quite a lot of high-pitched squealing.
- In theHeroes episode "Into Asylum",Zachary Quinto's high-pitched squeak of terror as Fake!Sylar is about to meet his end made the Internet laugh its collective ass off. Unfortunately...it doesn't appear to have been played for laughs!
- How I Met Your Mother
- When Ted gets his tattoo removed.
- Barney has a couple of instances of this as well.
- Used numerous times onPsych. Someone even made amontage of it.
- After Shawn and Gus are at a seance. A ghost appears, and then the lights cut back on. Shawn's love interest wonders where he and Gus went. Cut to the outside of the building, where Shawn and Gus are running for their car while screaming incomprehensibly,thus. What makes it funnier is that they're running out of a sorority, but none of the girls inside screamed.
- Another hilarious example.
- Nev from CBBC'sBear Behaving Badly.
- Bottom: Eddie does this after Richie sticks an umbrella into his groin. And opens it.
- InThe Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Carlton screams like a little girl.
- Howard Borden, the "wacky neighbor" onThe Bob Newhart Show, does this.
- Probably the second reason to watchAmericas Funniest Home Videos, after thegroin shots.
- Used in the season finale for Season 4 ofBones:
| Zack: I yelped! I didn't scream. | |
- From the DVD commentary on theCriminal Minds episode, "Revelations":
| Matthew Gray Gubler: So, we were filming the scene in which my character was being tortured. And in between takes, everyone was laughing, and I couldn't figure out why. And finally, at the end of one take, the director came up to me and said, "Okay, but can you try screaming in a way that does NOT sound like a little girl?" | |
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- Season 6 episode "Tabula Rasa". Spike, who has fallen asleep lying on top of a shop counter as the result of a spell, rolls/falls off said shop counter with a girly scream.
- ARunning Gag with Wesley in Season 3. Buffy even lampshades it.
- Star Trek
- Chekov was famous for doing this onStar Trek: The Original Series (and also inStar Trek: The Motion Picture,Star Trek II the Wrath of Khan andStar Trek IV: The Voyage Home).
- Harry Kim did too onStar Trek: Voyager.
- So did Geordi La Forge onStar Trek: The Next Generation.
- The Ferengi as a species made an art form of it. Played for laughs 99% of the time, but when Nog was badly injured in "The Siege of AR-558" it suddenly stopped being funny.
- Marion Moseby ofThe Suite Life of Zack and Cody andThe Suite Life On Deck does this when startled, which is ridiculously easy to do. Cody Martin too. And even Zack, that one time.
- FromLeverage:
| Eliot: Hey. What smells like crank and screams like a girl? | |
- iCarly: Nevel, when he gets locked in a fighting octagon withSam, Shelby and Carly.
- An actor inThe Bill had a scene where he fell off a platform while chasing a criminal in anAbandoned Warehouse. He mentioned that his scream as he did this stunt had been too high pitched, so they had to dub a more 'manly' scream on afterwards.
- InCommunity, when the going gets tough Troy has a tendency to regress into the personality of a six-year-old girl, completely with girly screams and panicky dancing.
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- Farscape. Season 3, Episode 13. Scratch N' Sniff. Crichton and D'Argo get slipped mickeys and rolled.Crichton wakes up in a window without clothes. (Well, he had fishnets, at least.)
- In theEureka episode "Up in the Air" Sheriff Jack Carter's reaction upon seeing how high in the air he is whiletrying to get inside a floating bank.
- As the page quote indicates, Mickey Smith ofDoctor Who fulfills the traditional role of theterrified companion.
- An episode ofMighty Ships set on the largest carrier in the world, theUSS Nimitz, showed a rookie pilot getting his callsign, which is usually done by consensus of other pilots in the rookie's flight group. This particular pilot had made no mistakes even when landing on a carrier at night, but when catapulted off for the exercise had, in his own words, screamed like a little girl. Another pilot noted that "screams like a girl" could be acronymed into "slag", which is also a British slang term meaning, roughly, slut, and (though this wasn't mentioned on the show) is originally an industrial term for waste product from smelting. Congratulations, Lieutenant Slag....
Music
- Vocaloid
- Twice during Len Kagamine's version of "World is Mine".Just listento those screams...
- Kaito gets one as well inKidnapping Elder Brother.It's even funnier consideringthe circumstances.
Newspaper Comics
- In oneZits strip, a half-asleep Jeremy accidentally walks in on his mom taking a shower, scaring the hell out of both of them, a moment punctuated with the sound effect "SHRIEK!" Turns out the shriek was Jeremy's.
Professioal Wrestling
- Carlito screamed like a girl when Teddy Long forced him to findThe Undertaker or lose his job. He was searching the backstage area when the lights flickered out and all we hear is a hilarious high-pitched scream.
- Norman Smiley ofWCW—so much so, in fact, that it became part of his gimmick.
- Santino Marella.Seeforyourself.
Puppet Shows
- In one early episode ofSesame Street, one sketch with Bert and Ernie shows Ernie unable to sleep, so Bert tells him to count sheep, but Ernie finds it dull and tries to count something else, finally deciding on balloons. An imaginary balloon appears and grows to a huge size before finally exploding and rocking the room, startling Bert awake, screaming.
Tabletop Games
- Parodied (of course) inThe Order of the Stick tabletop game. The battle card "Scream like a little girl!" isExactly What It Says on the Tin.
Video Games
- Deadpool occasionally screams like this when hit inMarvel vs. Capcom 3.
- Baba fromF-Zero X; a male character who used the female scream sound-byte when falling off the track. Stopped inF-Zero GX, but gotno less effeminate.
- Francis fromLeft 4 Dead will scream like this as well whenever he's pounced by a Hunter or attacked when downed. Kind of funny coming from a guy who exclaims a constant macho, "I hate _________"
- X's death scream inMega Man X4, thanks to abysmal voice acting.
- Team Fortress 2
- In "Meet the Sandvich", the Scout screams like a little girl in the ending, thanks to the Heavy havinghaving punched out all his blood. Played for laughs, of course.
- An in the Halloween event maps, getting spooked by either the Horseless Headless Horsemann or Zepheniah Mann's ghost will result in very unmanly screaming regardless of class.
- Sam and Max Freelance Police:
| Max: Mind if I drive? | |
- InInfinite Space, Ian apparently did this offscreen when he and Torlo evacuated Rhea (whom they thought dead until she suddenly moved). He is not pleased when Yuri and Torlo mock him about it.
- BlazBlue. If you use the English voice, in Ragna's Gag Reel, after being informed that he's a ghost, the very thing he feared, he screams like a little girl. There's no girly scream in the Japanese voice, though.
- Grim Fandango:
| Glottis: There was this one high-pitched whine it was making -- really grating noise, you know? And I searched and searched, but I couldn't find the source of the noise, until we pulled in here. | |
- Blood. Caleb screams like a little girl when he dies. Or is set on fire.
| Caleb:AH! IT BURNS! AH AH AH AH AAAAAH! | |
- Dragons Lair. Dirk the Daring does this a number of times, but most noticeably in one "miss" sequence during the "Crypt Creeps" scene with what looks like black goo.
- The concierge fromGhostbusters the Video Game screams like this, which the Ghostbusters at first mistake for a ghost.
- Assassin's Creed Brotherhood:Cesare Borgia of all people does this when Eziohurls him off a rampart in Viana.
- Alistair ofDragon Age confesses that he used to do this while dreaming of darkspawn and the Archdemon: "I screamed like a little girl. Duncan thought I had someone in my room." He also demonstrates girly screaming in a banter with Shale, attempting to giveShale an idea of what pain feels like.
- Elh ofSolatorobo hatesbugs and screams when they get too close.Of course, given that sheis a girl, it's more understandable, but Red didn't know that at the time.
- Murphy fromSilent Hill Downpour tends to do this. Not that we blame him.
Web Animation
- A Running Gag inRed vs. Blue is that Donut screams like a woman. Ironically, the actual girls don't. Done to the point that at least one of the Red Team's plans includes the following:
| Sarge: Donut! | |
- A short animated piece,Oktapodi: the delivery man screams like this at one point. Or it might have been the octopi. It's hard to tell.It Makes Sense in Context. Really.
Web Comics
- Art inSequential Art made a "girly shriek" just because of a thump upstairs. Of course, he was watching a horror movie at the time, but still...
- Freefall
- Florence is puzzled by a scream she hears, and Helix explains:Sam screams like a girl squid.
- Inthis strip Florence thinks she's startled Sam, but he explains: "No, you did not surprise me. My plans to scream like a little girl when I reached the kitchen were made hours ago. It's pure coincidence you happened to be here at the time."
- Nodded to inSomething*Positive where Aubrey tactlessly reminds Davan of the time when he was a kid, was attacked by a dog, and wet himself in public, then she reassures him that his screamsdidn't sound girly. "A little like a boiling lobster, but not girlish at all."
- Girl Genius
- Professor Tiktoffen often screams like this, andthe castle thinks it's funny.
- Also Tarvek, at least according to DuPree.
| DuPree: Oh myGosh! I'd know that girlish screamanywhere! | |
- Referenced inOzy and Millie. Millie finds herself holding something she'd rather not. She asks Ozy how she can let go without screaming like a little girl. Ozy's answer? "You ARE a little girl." Millie takes the hint.
- Sam inSluggy Freelance does this.
- While he is admittedlyfemale at the time, Elliot inEl Goonish Shivewould have liked his scream to be a little more manly.
- InVexxarr it's called "existential crisis alarm".
Web Original
- The Nostalgia Critic soundsincredibly girly when he screams. Which is often. In a commentary, he said he does this intentionally because it's funnier than if he screams normally which just makes him sound angry.
- There were occasions where the normal screaming voice was justifiable. In the TGWTG First Anniversary Brawl, he uses it when he's forcibly sliding towardsThe Angry Video Game Nerd'sfist.
- And during theFlubber review, he uses it again whenhe sees Weebo using a holographic projection of her human self to kiss a sleeping Professor Brainard.
- TheSpoony One does this repeatedly when he sees the cover of theWing Commander movie. He also does an excellent one when he finds out that the Critic is reviewingThe Room.
- Youtube duoCrazy Commentaries has one of the members,Jay Zilla 2830 doing this on occasion. Seehere at about 30 seconds in.
- What has to be the highest example ever is in this video, where Spike fell off a rotating platform, and Jay's reaction?This.
- YouTube member mpn1990 does this inPart 8 of his review ofAction 52 when the game crashes. "GAAAAAAAAA! DAMN YOU ACTION 52! I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE!!!!"
- PyschadelicSnake is the KING of this trope when it comes to horror Let's Plays. Go ahead, pick any video from a horror game he's played and I guarantee he'll scream at least once. His latest vids has the tail end of him finishingJu-On The Grudge on the Wii, and he screams every minute.
- YouTube userHamsterAlliance has given many examples of this, shrieking and yelling in surprise when he gets close to dying in a game or something scary happens unexpectedly.
- LikePsychadelic Snake andHamster Alliance,PewDiePie is also very notable for his incredibly girlish screams. Especially in hisearlier playthroughs. He evenpoints out how girly his screams are. A lot of the time, he ends up in tears after a huge scare. Either that or he's inKittenTherapy.
- Tobuscus does this frequently in his gaming commentaries. As aRunning Gag, it often occurs immediately after he has declared himself to beunafraid and in control of the situation.
- Chuggaaconroy has quite a few of these moments, most recentlythis one to the point that even he admits he lost man points for doing it.
- Jaune Arc shrieks girlishly in V1E8 ofRWBY when he and Pyrrha stumble across a Deathstalker (a monstrous scorpion). Lampshaded by Yang who hears the scream from a great distance away:
| Yang: Some girl's in trouble! | |
Western Animation
- Often used as a gag inLooney Tunes,Tom and Jerry,Tex Avery shorts, et al.
- The episode where Spike the bulldog screams like a woman, after seeing Tom's fake dog-mask walk away on its own with Jerry underneath (because he thinks it's a real head), deserves special mention.
- Parodied in the Tex Avery shortWho Killed Who; the detective does a girly scream upon meeting the killer face-to-face... but first he uses a small pitch-pipe to find the correct octave.
- The Simpsons
- The Human Torch does this constantly in the newFantastic Four series.
- As doesH.E.R.B.I.E.
- Mr. Turner fromThe Fairly OddParents is pretty prone to this trope.
- Johnny Bravo does this a lot in seasons two and three. In the Spanish dub, he does even more often.
- Occasionally a character inThe Ren and Stimpy Show would scream like this. Depending on the situation, they would either haveBilly West orJohn Kricfalusi do it themselves, or dub in an inappropriate femaleStock Scream. Lampshaded once, where Stimpy actuallysays "Girlish Scream!" while doing so.
- OnThe Venture Brothers, Dean Venture screams like a girl in the episode "Love Bheits", prompting a eunuch to quip "I'm fixed, what's your excuse?"
- Duckman's scream has, on occasion, sounded exactly like a little girl.
- The earl of Lemongrab ofAdventure Time doesn't scream like a little girl, so much as he screams like a schizophrenic woman on her menstrual cycle. Okay... He screams like that pretty often, due to his high, uber-puberty voice.
- WhenDisneytook overDoug, it became rather obvious thatRoger Klotz now had someone else providing his voice whenever he screamed in terror. While (in the Nick series) the title character didn't scream like a little girl, he sure did have a high-pitched scream!
- Transformers Animated
- When a massive stack of metal falls on him in the episode "Autoboot Camp", Sentinel Prime screams like a little girl.
- So does Grandus, when he encounters the "scary organic" Captain Fanzone in "This is Why I Hate Machines". For some perspective on that last bit, Grandus transforms into what looks like one of those vehicles they use to carry the space shuttle around, and is the Autobot equivalent of a sumo wrestler.
- Soundwave inthe original cartoon. Given that he's supposed to be a cold, heartless Decepticon, it's surprisingly hilarious.
- In theTransformers Prime episode "Scrapheap", Bulkhead lets one out when the lights go out. Miko then lets one out when she freaks out over a spider.
- Neil, ofClass of the Titans. Very bad for his image.
- Space Ghost Coast to Coast: Space Ghost took this one step further. Thebody snatcher pods arrived, and he screamed once. Trying to leave the building, he finds it's been covered byThe Blob; another scream. Then, he flies back into the studio and babbles incoherentlyin a little girl's voice before clearing his throat.
- Futurama
- The Robot Devil.
- Bender does this when Roberto tries to stab him in "Insane in the Mainframe".
- Xiaolin Showdown;Jack Spicer does this frequently.
- Michelangelo in the 2003Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003 cartoon does a pretty good girly scream when he's freaked. Donatello sometimes panics too. Example of Mikey'smanlyscreaming.
- In theSouth Park episode "Preschool", Cartman screams like this after being threatened by a bully that had just been released from juvie and had a score to settle with the boys.
- Drawn Together does this a few times. Captain Hero: "Isaid I'm on thephone!" Also the driver of the Satanmobile: "You just killed the one-leggedman!" ... "Stop this truckright now!"
- Nick Dean inThe Adventures of Jimmy Neutron Boy Genius does this when he encounters Poultra.
- Blitz fromRoad Rovers is known for this.
- Courage the Cowardly Dog is known to indulge in this from time to time, for example in the episode "Son of the Chicken From Outer Space" (5:45 inthis clip).
- Dexter ofDexters Laboratory screams like a little girl when also dressed like one.
- Toad ofX-Men Evolution has a high-pitched girly scream.
- Cyborg ofTeen Titans. Come to think of it, pretty much all the guys on that show do this, but his is definitely the most girly.
- Subverted inMegas XLR.
| Coop: Jamie, quit screaming like a little girl! | |
- Odd Della Robbia, a few times inCode Lyoko. Notably at the end of episode "Guided Missile". Ironic since he's dubbed by a male voice actor, unlike other young boys in the series who haveCross-Dressing Voices.
- The Powerpuff Girls
- The Mayordoes this for several seconds in an early episode.
- Mojo Jojo also does this in "Meet the Beat-Alls" when he discovers Moko Jono's true identity.
- ReBoot: Bob, Dot, Enzo and Mike the TV get trapped in aDungeons & Dragons type game and come across a giant spider. Cue high-pitched scream. Bob looks at Enzo. Enzo looks at Dot. Dot shrugs and points at Mike (the source of the scream).
- Ben 10 Alien Force After Ben sees a television advertisement for Sumo Slammers the motion picture, he does this in a very fan-girly way.
- King of the Hill
- Bobby Hill. Including the time when Hank told him not to scream like a girl when he got him in a rose contest. Bobby still does it.
- Inverted for Hank, who has an impressively masculine scream ("BWAAAAHHHH!") that's plenty funny on its own.
- InThe Weekenders, Tino making these was something of a running gag (a trait he inherited from his father). One episode even has him worried he's too effeminate (becomingTina in anImagine Spot).
- Often done by Sid onHey Arnold!, usually to something no one else considers frightening.
- Jackie Chan Adventures: Wesley Rank lets one out when he sees a giant snake.
| Rank's Camera Man: Rank may not know how to treat little girls, but he sure knows how to scream like one! | |
- General Skarr fromThe Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy as part of being the world'sButt Monkey, most notably in one episode where he is caught on fire by Grim's scythe in his vain attempts to prevent Billy from destroying his beloved garden, where he continues to screech until Grim puts the fire out by stomping on him... poor guy never catches a break.
Real Life
- One of the unfortunate realities of having an adrenaline rush is that it tightens all of your muscles --including your vocal cords. This means that even people who are perfectly brave can wind up screaming like a girl — so long as they are flooded with adrenaline.
- Could count as aHell Is That Noise for the recipient if the rush of adrenaline is accompanied by the Fight option of Fight or Flight being selected. So if someone screams like a girl as they run away from you, go ahead and laugh, but if someone screams like a girl and runs toward you,try to run away even faster.
- This 19-year-old guy while running away from an unexpected attack by arabid otter (hilarity starts at 1:12).