This is a Skywalker Sound sound effect which made its first debut in Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983). It's the sfx cluster of the ricco-like explosion that includes a heavily processed version of SKYWALKER EXPLOSION 01.
Similar Variations
Used In
TV Shows
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars (Includes a high-pitched one occasionally used in Season 1)
- Star Wars: Rebels (Heard once in "Wings of the Master" in low volume and in "Flight of the Defender")
- The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (Used for thunderclaps in "Travels with Father" and "Masks of Evil" and for explosions in "Trenches of Hell" and "Spring Break Adventure")
TV Specials
Movies
- Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001) (Heard once in a deleted scene called "Viking Prologue".)
- A Bug's Life (1998) (Used once for fire flame as it hit Flaming Death.)
- Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)
- Beverly Hills Ninja (1997)
- Bolt (2008)
- Broken Arrow (1996)
- Cast Away (2000)
- Con Air (1997)
- Eagle Eye (2008)
- F/X2 (1991)
- Flight (2012)
- Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989) (Only heard in the remastered version.)
- Hannibal Rising (2007) (Heard once mixed with the Volcano variant of SKYWALKER EXPLOSION 07, I [TMD the Hedgehog] think.)
- Hercules (1997) (Used once for thunderclap as it hit Philoctetes.)
- Hellboy (2004)
- How to Train Your Dragon (2010)
- Iron Man (2008)
- Jumanji (1995) (used mostly for thunderclaps in a low pitch)
- The Last Supper (1995) (used for thunderclaps in mostly a low pitch)
- Mars Attacks! (1996) (normal and high-pitched)
- Megamind (2010)
- Metro (1997)
- More Vampires in Havana (2003)
- My Way (2011)? (Elongated)
- Pearl Harbor (2001)
- Ready Player One (2018)
- The Rock (1996)
- Shattered Lies (2002)
- Sonic the Hedgehog (2020) (Need verifications.)
- Speed 2: Cruise Control (1997) (Heard once near the end of the film.)
- Starship Troopers (1997)
- Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) (debut) (normal and low-pitched)
- Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015)
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008)
- The Terminator (1984) (Audio Restoration and Re-Mixing)
- Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
- Thor: The Dark World (2013)
- Titan A.E. (2000)
- Volcano (1997) (Heard in a normal variant and in a reversed version.)
- War Horse (2011)
- Young Indiana Jones: Masks of Evil (1997) (Used for thunderclaps)
- Young Indiana Jones: Spring Break Adventure (1997)
- Young Indiana Jones: Travels with Father (1996) (Used in a low pitch to accent thunder.)
- Young Indiana Jones and the Trenches of Hell (1997)
Video Games
PC:
- Half-Life 2 (Heard when an airship crashes.)
- Star Wars Battlefront II (2017 Video Game)
PlayStation 4:
Xbox:
- Half-Life 2 (Heard when an airship crashes.)
Xbox 360:
- Half-Life 2 (Heard when an airship crashes.)
Xbox One:
Shorts
- Boundin' (2003) (Used for a thunderclap)
- Lego Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Out (2012)
- Wow! (1990)
Trailers
Logos
- THX: Custom T2 THX Animation (2000, 2006) (Logos)
YouTube Videos
- THX Grand featuring Finnick the Saber Tooth Squirrel (2022) (Processed)
- WhitneyGoLucky
Anime
Image Gallery
Audio Samples