The sound comes from Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, released in 2018, where it is tied to the Prowler, Miles Morales's uncle Aaron Davis in his masked villain form. The distorted roar became one of the film's most recognisable audio cues, signalling danger whenever the character appeared. Clips of the full effect later spread across YouTube, TikTok and soundboards, and editors began using it outside the film for horror reveals, suspense builds and meme edits where an ordinary scene suddenly turns threatening.