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Anyone with a basic knowledge of physics knows [http://www.mediacollege.com/audio/01/sound-waves.html how sound waves work]. Anyone who's been up close to the stage of a rock concert can tell how well they work when it gets loud.

This, though, is that feeling taken [[Beyond the Impossible|beyond what's possible in real life]]. A sound or series of sounds, if sufficiently loud, will push someone or something around as would the wind of a hurricane or tornado, well beyond what would happen in the [[Real Life]]. This trope is almost always [[Rule of Funny|played for laughs]].

Note, however, that this doesn't cover sounds that are genuinely that loud, like a rocket launch, nor does it cover giant monsters like [[Godzilla]] or [[King Kong]] roaring in someone's face, where their breath would come into play.

Contrast this to [[Brown Note]] and [[Loud of War]], where the sound has a purely psychological effect on the target, as opposed to the physical effect of '''Gale Force Sound'''. See also [[Glass-Shattering Sound]], where the effect is limited to glass. [[Make Me Wanna Shout]] has a similar effect, but only caused by a person's voice.

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== [[Advertising]] ==
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zk71h2CQ_xM This old Maxell cassette tape ad] is the [[Ur Example]].

== [[Film]] ==
* Near the beginning of the first ''[[Back to The Future]]'', Marty hooks up an electric guitar to a [[Up to Eleven|ludicrously huge speaker]]. He plays a single chord and is physically hurled backwards by the sound (the speaker is destroyed in the process).
* ''[[Kung Fu Hustle]]'' features the Harpists, two villains who fight their opponents by playing a guqin (Chinese zither) that makes sounds loud enough to knock people down. This is easily topped by the Landlady's "Lion's Roar" technique, which shakes buildings and cracks stone columns. When this fails to impress the Beast, the [[Big Bad]] of the story, her husband helps her rip the top off a church bell and holds it up for her to use as a megaphone. The result is a sonic tornado that reduces the room to splinters, with the Beast becoming a rapidfire participant in [[Oh Crap]] and [[Blown Across the Room]]. This does impress the Beast, and when she moves in to give him a second dose, he promptly surrenders.  {{spoiler|[[I Surrender, Suckers|NOT.]]}}
* Near the end of the second ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' movie, Mike and Don send Shredder flying by turning the speaker he's standing in front of at maximum and hitting a chord.

== [[Web Comics]] ==
* ''[[The Whiteboard]]'': [http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb024.html Doc using new speakers]
* ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'': [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2010-04-17 "If you want to really yell at somebody, Doctor, do it from the diaphragm."]
* ''[[Questionable Content]]'': In [http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1566 A Very Sweet-Tits New Year Part 1].
* ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'':
** Sarah was really upset about that [[Catgirl]] [[Juggling Loaded Guns|incident]]... [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2005-12-02 could you tell?]
** And now another young lady [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2011-04-22 joins the Sonic Boom Club]!
* [http://coachrandom.zzl.org/Chronological/comic-020.xml This comic]{{Dead link}} from [[Coach Random]].

== [[Web Original]] ==
* In Volume 4 Episode 12 of ''[[RWBY]]'', the Nuckelavee, a centaur-like Grimm, roars into Ren's face powerfully enough to blow his hair back.

== [[Western Animation]] ==
* In the ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]'' mini-episode featuring Punk Rocket, Punk Rocket's guitar playing acts like this.
* From ''[[Transformers Animated]]'', there's the rock battle between Optimus Prime and Soundwave, in "Human Error, Part 2".
* ''[[Strawberry Shortcake]]'': Before Berrykin Bloom started taking lessons, his bassoon-playing shook the ground, to the point of knocking people over.
* In the ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic]]'' episode [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S2/E04 Luna Eclipsed|"Luna Eclipsed"]], Princess Luna, using the Royal Canterlot Voice, has this effect.
* The Whammer from ''[[Word Girl]]'' can crash his fists together to create shock waves that topple buildings.
* In the 1951 [[Looney Tunes]] cartoon ''Bunny Hugged'', wrestling champion The Crusher simply roars into the face of his opponent, [[Gorgeous George|Ravishing Ronald]], [https://youtu.be/HICTBgVdpYM?t=92 sending his hair and arms (!) waving behind him] in the resulting wind.

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