Image Example of a Ascension Gun for the Sound.
This is a Skywalker Sound sound effect. It consists of three separate elements, a gunfire element, a whirling element (the one that is most commonly used) and an impact element. it debuted in Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980).
Used In
TV Shows
- Love, Death & Robots
- Primal (2019 TV Series)
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2D Animated Series) (The whirling element is used quite often.)
Movies
- 9 (2009) (Whirling element only.)
- Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001)
- Dinosaur (2000) (Whirling element only.)
- Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001) (Whirling element only.)
- Godzilla 2000 (1999) (Whirling element only.)
- Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) (Whirling element only.)
- Hercules (1997) (Whirling element only.)
- The Incredibles (2004) (Whirling element only.)
- The Island (2005) (Whirling element only.)
- James and the Giant Peach (1996) (Whirling element only.)
- Jungle Cruise (2021) (Whirling element only.)
- Jurassic Park (1993) (Whirling element only.)
- Jurassic World Dominion (2022) (Gunfire element only.)
- The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) (Gunfire and whirling elements only.)
- The Polar Express (2004) (Whirling element only; heard in a low pitch when the locomotive begins spinning around uncontrollably on the ice in Glacier Gulch.)
- Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021)
- The Simpsons Movie (2007) (Impact element only.)
- Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) (Every element is used.)
- Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002)
- Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)
- Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) (debut; gunfire element only.)
- Titanic (1997) (The gunfire element is used once for a bullet ricochet when Cal shoots at the water at the bottom of the grand staircase when he chases after Jack and Rose.)
- Twisters (2024) (Whirling element only.)
- Up (2009) (Whirling element only.)
- Volcano (1997) (Whirling element only.)
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