Diablo Swing Orchestra's 'Justice for Saint Mary' (the final track off Pandora's Piñata).

Played with a bit, in that this is not quite the 'laser' type of pulse the use of Steely Dan's 'Dirty Work', in the promotion of The Suicide Squad (2021), trailers and commercials, were punctuated by pulsing guitar riffs for each new clip, as well as Dan shouting 'YEAH!'.

No, these were not inserted by Phelous during his riffs, they're actually part of the soundtrack.

Dingo Pictures movies sporadically throw in blaster beam-sounding chords at the most unexpected moments, such as Mii and Wabuu giggling in The Countryside Bears after Teddy falls from the tree, or Lucy glomping Wabuu in Pocahontas.

The trailer to Michael Bay's 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (2016) has it.

The trailer for Mojave (2015) has this.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows uses the classic blaster beam pulses in the beginning of its trailer.

Likewise, 'True Survivor' begins with a gong-style blaster beam note.

The title song of Kung Fury has a synth bass pulse repeating throughout.

This TV spot for Steve Jobs uses the Macintosh start-up chime as its pulse.

Honest Trailers lampshades them as 'Obligatory Inception Bwaaahhs'.

World War Z has a distinctly electric variant in its first trailer.

The trailer for Disconnect (2012) has it.

12 Years a Slave: Pops up around thirty seconds in.

X-Men: Apocalypse: There are several of these in the SDCC and the teaser trailers.

The Wolverine's first trailer features one, 1:20 minutes in.

TRON: Legacy plays one as Sam first enters the Grid and sees a Recognizer.

Transformers, particularly the trailers for Revenge of the Fallen and Dark of the Moon.This trailer for The Thing (2011) has two different ones, a low one for suspense and a loud one for attack.It's not just the shark that attacks in Shark Night 3D.Rise of the Planet of the Apes: Sound familiar ? The chord does show up in the film once, as spear-wielding apes appear on a roof.Prometheus used these, coupled with a strange howl taken from the original trailer for Alien.Pacific Rim has one in its first trailer, though it's much less loud and more high than most examples.The teaser trailer for Moonfall contains these, highlighting the impending doom from the Moon's imminent collision course with Earth.Inception is one of the most famous examples, featuring a distinctive sound in the trailers that became memetic.By contrast, the first trailer played the same scene without any pulses, instead playing Ligeti's Requiem during then. The second trailer for Godzilla (2014) has them, during the scene where Godzilla is revealed from within an enormous smoke cloud.The trailer for Europa Report has it (second half).One shatters every window in Johannesburg. They're in-universe, to boot - they're the sounds the ship makes. District 9's second trailer featured pulses of many sizes.Its ominousness comes from the fact that it sounds louder than it actually is, since it's made of a spectrum of frequencies that grow from small to large. You may know it better as the THX sound effect. The Deep Note is the Ur-ominous sound before nearly every movie.Cowboys & Aliens's is fairly muted, but it culminates at 2:07.This TV spot for Captain Marvel (2019) features these interspersed with repetitions of Carol Danvers' 'Higher, further, faster' mantra.This TV spot for Black Panther (2018) uses these to emphasize the action-packed conflict between T'Challa and Erik Killmonger.Battleship's trailer used these upon reveal of the aliens.The second The Avengers trailer had some instances of this, coupled with Loki's Hannibal Lecture.The combined effect of the sonic ping sounding like a surreal warning alarm, the varying heartbeat and additional sound layering is astonishingly effective at creating a sense of terror even today.

Bonus points for the Heartbeat Soundtrack mixed with this in the trailer. Here, it is a remixed and drawn out sonar ping, and is much more high pitched and unnerving. Alien: The Unbuilt Ur-Example is likely the trailer.

Dawn of man pulses