Image Example of a fire Lion Growling for the Sound.
This is a unique lion roaring/growling sound effect that was created by Skywalker Sound sound designer Gary Rydstrom. It (potentially) debuted in Spirit Warrior: Peacock King. It became a fairly popular stock sound effect, however.
Variations
- Explosion Incoming EXP023101 (processed variant)
- Explosion Incoming EXP023102 (another processed variant)
- Explosions Multipl EXP023501 (Included, but is heard in a lower volume.)
- Fire Rush Explosion SDT026101 (Included)
- VOLCANO TURMOIL - SERIES OF RUMBLING EXPLOSIVE VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS (included)
Used In
TV Shows
- Avatar: The Last Airbender (Heard in "The Avatar and the Firelord".)
- Ben 10
- DC Super Hero Girls
- Kid Cosmic
- The Legend of Korra
- Love, Death & Robots
- Samurai Jack (Heard once in EPISODE C and EPISODE CI.)
- Smallville
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars (May've been heard once in "Massacre".)
- Sym-Bionic Titan
- Teen Titans Go! (Heard once in "Tamaranian Vacation".)
- What If...? (TV Series)
- The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (Heard in "Masks of Evil".)
- Young Justice
Movies
- Armageddon (1998)
- Backdraft (1991) (Used often to accent fire and explosions.)
- Backdraft 2 (2019) (1st half used twice.)
- Broken Arrow (1996)
- Casino Royale (2006)
- Cowboys & Aliens (2011)
- Dinosaur (2000) (The second half is used once in a lower pitch when Aladar witnesses the approaching impact shockwave right before he and the lemurs jump into the sea from the cliff.)
- Direct Hit (1994)
- Drive Angry (2011) (Modified)
- Executive Target (1997)
- Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001)
- Finding Nemo (2003) (Used once for the barracuda when it roars off-screen as Marlin fell back to his home.)
- Furious 7 (2015)
- Hannibal Rising (2007)
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
- Hellboy (2004)
- Hercules (1997)
- Hitman (2007)
- Iron Man (2008)
- In God's Hands (1998)
- KPop Demon Hunters (2025)
- Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (2003) (Used for the jet about to crash.)
- The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (2003)
- Mission: Impossible II (2000)
- Mulan (1998)
- Quest for Camelot (1998)
- Ready Player One (2018)
- The Rock (1996)
- Shazam! (2019)
- Steel Frontier (1995)
- Teen Titans Go! vs. Teen Titans (2019)
- Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) (Used for a truck about to ram in.)
- Thor: Ragnarok (2017)
- Transporter 2 (2005)
- Volcano (1997)
- The Wild Robot (2024)
- Wunderland (2018)
- XXX: Return of Xander Cage (2017)
- Young Indiana Jones: Masks of Evil (1997)
Trailers
- Star Wars: Battlefront II (2017) (Heard once in "The Han Solo Season")
- Star Wars: Empire at War (2006) (Trailers)
- Unbroken (2014) (Trailers) (Heard once in Trailer 1, as the bomber plane is about to hit the ocean.)
Logos
- Mushroom Pictures (2000)
Video Games
- Return Fire (Heard at the start of the intro.)
- Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II (Heard in a SFX cluster/low pitched, including some explosions variant from Backdraft, dubbed as "SFX_2311.wav".)
Abridged Anime
Anime
- Date A Live (Heard once in a high pitch in "April 10".)
- Fatal Fury: The Motion Picture (1994)
- Naruto
- Naruto: Shippuden
- Pokémon
- Sonic X (processed)
- Spirit Warrior: Peacock King (OVA) (Debut; heard frequently from monsters and in various pitches in "Festival of Ogre's Revival".)
Image Gallery
Audio Samples