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* [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Pinkie Pie's]] reply to the other's stare after she eats a cupcake smothered in [[BlazingInfernoHellfireSauce hot sauce.]]

''Man, that StaffChick is hot. What I wouldn't give to have twenty minutes alone with her and a [[NoodleImplements packing crate of spam]]. ''

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* In the original ''{{Starcraft}}'' game, Jim Raynor meets with Sarah Kerrigan and receives a briefing about the mission which she interrupts with a shout of "You pig!"
-->"''[[DefensiveWhat Whaaaat]]?'' I didn't even say anything!"
-->"Yeah, [[DirtyMindReading but you were thinkin' it]]."

* ''JusticeLeague'': In "Justice on Trial", Hawkgirl destroys the engine of a spacecraft that's firing on her, Superman and J'onn; the others are [[ThouShaltNotKill a bit surprised]] when she doesn't even try to save the pilot.
-->'''Superman:''' Hawkgirl!\\
'''Hawkgirl:''' What?\\
''[J'onn swoops down to pull the pilot to safety, just before the spaceship crashes.]''\\
'''Hawkgirl:''' Oh.

* In the ''Meet the Spy'' video for ''{{Team Fortress 2}}'', the BLU Soldier delivers one of these after shooting [[spoiler: the BLU Spy]].

* [[MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Pinkie Pie's]] reply to the other's stare after she eats a cupcake smothered in [[BlazingInfernoHellfireSauce hot sauce.]]

Related to BigWhat and FlatWhat. Can be used to {{lampshade}} an OutOfCharacterMoment. Often overlaps with FunnyBackgroundEvent.

* Black Mage in ''EightBitTheatre'' does this a lot, whenever he's caught doing something awful.

-->"[[DefensiveWhat Whaaaat]]''? I didn't even say anything!"
-->"Yeah, but you were thinkin' it."

'''''*{{Beat}}*'''''

-->'''[[{{Beat}} *Beat*]], as Sinclair and Garibaldi wordlessly walk away.'''

--> '''Polly''': ''(knowingly)'' And why was he doing that, Sarge?
--> '''Jackrum''': ''(approvingly)'' Oh, you-- all right, I'd just given Madame the old 'quietus'...

* ''MassEffect'''s Kaidan, when having his infamous CovertPervert moment. "It does sound like something that you'd find on an extranet fetish site. ''*beat*'' ...''[[DefensiveWhat what]]''?"

[[caption-width:300:[[EightBitTheater Black Mage shows how it's done.]]]]

* When the station [[ItMakesSenseInContext fails to explode or disappear.]]

-->'''Ivanova''': No boom ''today''. Boom tomorrow. There's always a Boom tomorrow.

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[[caption-width-right:300:At least it wasn't a panty joke.]]

* Tedd of ''ElGoonishShive'' frequently finds the need to use these. [[http://egscomics.com/?date=2008-04-23 Here]] and [[http://egscomics.com/?date=2008-04-25 here]] are good examples. Catalina Bobcat gets one [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2011-01-07 here]], oddly enough Susan seems to a cause of these.

* Tedd of ''ElGoonishShive'' frequently finds the need to use these. [[http://egscomics.com/?date=2008-04-23 Here]] and [[http://egscomics.com/?date=2008-04-25 here]] are good examples.

* The Big Bad Wolf says this when {{Shrek}} finds him sleeping in his (Shrek's) bed in the first movie.