![]() ![]() ("Peter Pan" and this book are only a few years apart and it's probably a Shout-Out.) Carl Sandburg "Rootabaga Tales" has a scene where baby alligators are fed with clocks.In Wyrd Sisters, Nanny Ogg muses that Magrat's crush on the Fool has its up side: thanks to the tinkling bells on his jester hat, she'd always know where he was.When a more powerful monster catches and devours his body, his ghost is left behind and free of the curse, but the creature that eats him becomes subject to this trope. In Too Many Curses, the Vampire King who prowls the halls of Margle's castle is cursed to emit a constant sound of ringing bells, denying him any chance of stalking prey undetected.Fortunately, it has a squeaky wheel that the local people have learned to listen for. Tachyon from the Johnny Maxwell Trilogy often runs into people with her shopping cart. Its next appearance is heralded by the sound. In Sewer, Gas & Electric, a sewer-dwelling mutant shark eats a tunnel worker whose new digital watch plays Bolero.In Hex And The City, the Reality Warper Madman is preceded around the city by his own personal soundtrack, which is helpful to people who want to stay the hell away from him.Averted because none of the mice are brave enough to actually install the bell. The Beast Fable called The Bell and the Cat or The Mice in Council discusses a plan to put a bell on a cat so the mice will hear it coming.It also averts the clause about Fridge Logic in the main description, as the clock running down is discussed by Hook and Smee as a definite possibility and in fact does run down just before the climax. Captain Hook's crocodile nemesis in Peter Pan is the Trope Namer.A quick, muffled gasp is Luke's (and the audience's) only warning as Vader leaps out of hiding. This is topped shortly thereafter when Vader pulls the same trick but holds his breath. One of the most tense moments in the saga is during the fight in Cloud City, when Vader hides from Luke and tauntingly lets him hear his breathing as Luke nervously paces the room. In Star Wars, if you hear the slow methodic sound of mechanical labored breathing, you'd better pray you're not a Jedi, rebel, errant Imperial, or even in Darth Vader's path. ![]() Just before it attacks again, the humans hear the camera's mechanisms whirring, and they can see its flash going off inside the creature when it strikes. In Kong: Skull Island, when a Skullcrawler eats a camera(and the person holding it). ![]() Particular to Hook, Peter and the Lost Boys taunt Captain Hook with a bunch of clocks, exploiting his deathly fear of their sound.
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