![]() ![]() 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. This is invoked in both the Disney version of Peter Pan, and the live-action film Hook.The psycho killer Colt Hawker in Visiting Hours wears a small bell around his neck, which rings whenever he moves.While the noise doesn't actually warn anyone, the sound of a victim's cell phone can be heard ringing from inside the Piranhaconda as it slithers through the jungle.In a variant, the monster from Supershark emits an energy that makes radios succumb to static when it comes near.Although inaudible to the human ear, the vibration of an approaching Graboid can be detected by seismometers in the films and the series. In Tremors 2: Aftershocks, one of the Graboids eats a radio that's blaring music, which is then heard from underground before it reappears.Bonus points since the Spinosaurus may have actually been the dinosaur equivalent of a crocodile. The phone is later heard ringing just before another attack, and again from a gigantic pile of dinosaur poop. In Jurassic Park III, a Spinosaurus eats a man who's carrying a satellite phone. ![]()
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