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I'm starting to hear the 'Transformers' noise everywhere now, too. It's some algorithmic creation of noises that I would describe as insectoid and metallic.

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The "Transformers sound" is distinct and unmistakable; I hear it only in relation to Transformers themselves, and only rarely in the films. It may even be a trademark of Hasbro.

There's a bunch of it in Spectral.

Game of Thrones uses a sound effect for dragon attacks like some of the Transformers sound effects - shame really, spoilt it a bit for me.

GOT:

https://youtu.be/56oIsum8HQc?t=1m57s

Transformers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JySDiW0psM

I didn't get the sense that the sound effect for dragon attacks was meant to be interpreted as being produced by the dragon, I took it as being in the same vein as the "BRAAAM" effect in the article.

Yep. They had dragon vocal effects which were fine but this extra effect was played at the moment of each attack - the incongruity (no obvious cause) + recognition (from other films) broke immersion for me.

IIRC, that's true for the 'classic' transforming sound. The "wub---wub---wub--wub--wub-wub-wubwubwub" from every Michael Bay movie ever is a different story.

The wub noise is what I'm referring to.

Pretty sure I heard that noise or something very very close to it in the latest Star Trek film.

I couldn't find a good example of it in the trailer, but I did note that the trailer is, unsurprisingly, loaded with BRAAAM.

Like a bag of scalpels being shaken around.

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