History Main / LittleNo

* The Grand Councilwoman in ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch'' lets out one when seeing Stitch will crash-land on Kauai rather than in the ocean (and thus succumb to SuperDrowningSkills).
** And Nani, when she sees the fire truck turn left towards her house after begging for it not to. [[AdultFear Lilo is still inside.]]

** Asuka after Shinji desperately tries to connect to her during Instrumentality. Unfortunately for that time she has become so frustrated with him (due to Shinji never getting her hints that she liked him, never helping her when SHE needed HIM, leaving her alone during and after her MindRape, [[ADateWithRosiePalms masturbating over her comatose body]], and letting the MP-Evas chopping her into pieces and eating her alive) that her reply was a simple "No". It is the last push that causes him to finally break down.
** In episode 23 as Armisael is attempting to become one with Shinji and merge Rei's heart with his Rei's response to this is a defiant quiet "No".

* Duma, the Angel of Silence in ''Lucifer''. It has some of the effect of a BigNo in that it's the first thing he ever says and the mere fact that he speaks at all shuts everyone right up.

got theirs during the Battle of the Bulge when they held the town of Bastogne for seven days against an entire Panzer corps. When the Germans demanded his surrender,

** Sheridan does this in "[[Recap/BabylonFiveS04E18InteresctionsInRealTime Intersections in Real Time]]", when after a prolonged period of torture and interrogation, he is asked to sign a FalseConfession, and warned that his captors are tired of Sheridan’s refusal to confess and are willing to kill him and use manipulated footage to make it appear that Sheridan did confess.

* In ''VideoGame/DoomEternal'', ''The Ancient Gods - Part 2'', [[spoiler: this is Doomguy's [[ShutUpHannibal response]] to the [[BigBad Dark Lord]] when he asks if he has any words to him before his impending death.]]

* In the opening scene of ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemistTheConquerorOfShamballa'', Al is listening to an egotistical physicist go on about his discovery of nuclear fission, and saying, "Please accept this gift of a uranium-bomb as a token of my willingness to help your land's military in the achievements of its goals." Al responds curtly with a polite, soft, but '''extremely''' defiant, "No."

* Maria in ''Film/WestSideStory'' does this after news spreads that [[spoiler:her Caucasian boyfriend, Tony, killed her brother, Bernardo]]. She also does this after the subsequent murder of [[spoiler:Tony]] causes her to break down and threaten to start her own killing spree.

Third use, and the little brother of the BigNo: a tiny, pathetic "No", almost as if begging for the reality in front of the speaker's eyes to not be real. Disbelief and denial, with a blank or horrified look on his/her face. When being hammed up, this little "No" will often be followed by the usual hysterics and a resounding BigNo. Done effectively, conveys utter and complete vulnerability from characters too badass to break down weeping and screaming. TheStoic will be the one to use this "No", in a moment of NotSoStoic. Also found in the midst of many a TranquilFury, or at the beginning of a RapidFireNo.

* Rorschach of ''{{ComicBook/Watchmen}}'' is extremely well-known for this line, though he utters it only in the hypothetical tense. He does this as he imagines a world so torn apart in chaos that it begs him, at last to help -- and he doesn't want to anymore.

* In ''Clean and Sober'', we have this exchange:

* ''Series/GameOfThrones'': During the battle of the Loot Train in the Reach, Tyrion can only beg Jaime from afar to turn on his heels and flee the battle instead of making his suicide attack on a downed Drogon and Daenerys.

* In chapter 52 of ''Manga/RosarioToVampire II'' Akuha says this in retaliation to hearing Kurumu say she and Mizore are going to rescue Moka.

* In ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda2'' this is the Wolf Boss' response to Shen demanding him to fire on the heroes, because it would result in his own men being killed in the crossfire. [[spoiler:Also doubles as FamousLastWords, as Shen kills him in retribution.]]

* Type 3 in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfSpyro Eternal Night'' when [[spoiler:Cynder]] sees [[spoiler:Spyro]]'s SuperpoweredEvilSide.

* During ''ComicBook/SuicideRun,'' Rosalie utters a soft but firm "No" when her men urge her to send assassins after Frank during a rare period where she's trying to avoid making him angry at her. When they persist, she repeats the word much louder and throws a wet sponge at them.

A subtrope of DramaticDeadpan. Compare StageWhisper or BluntYes. Compare ''and'' contrast the PrecisionFStrike -- for a character [[SirSwearsALot who swears a lot]], this can have the same effect.

In ''VideoGame/DoomEternal'', ''The Ancient Gods - Part 2'', [[spoiler: this is Doomguy's [[ShutUpHannibal response]] to the [[BigBad Dark Lord]] when he asks if he has any words to him before his impending death.]]

** Sheridan does this in the episode "Intersections in Real Time", when after a prolonged period of torture and interrogation, he is asked to sign a FalseConfession, and warned that his captors are tired of Sheridan’s refusal to confess and are willing to kill him and use manipulated footage to make it appear that Sheridan did confess.

** Also used by G'kar in the episode "Convictions".

* ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'': The episode "A Scandal In Belgravia". It's a precursor to Sherlock revealing a fatal flaw in the villain's plan that causes everything to unravel around them. When he's done, [[BreakTheHaughty the receiver is well and truly broken]].

* One of the most powerful moments in ''Series/TheSopranos'' occurs when Dr. Melfi tells Tony "No" when he asks her if there's anything he can do when she starts crying in a therapy session. It's powerful, because [[spoiler: she'd been raped earlier in the episode, and had seriously contemplated telling Tony and using her connection to him to have the rapist killed]].
* In the ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode Yesterday's Enterprise, Guinan gives one of these not long before the Enterprise-C appears and alters history.

* A variant is observed in the forty-fourth chapter of ''Manga/AsteroidInLove''. The [[ClubStub Earth Sciences club]] are brainstroming ideas for the upcoming SchoolFestival. [[TheDitz Mira]] provides many plans, although all of them rejected by [[OnlySaneMan Ao]], by a small but firm "Denied." This is in contrast with similar scenes a year before in-universe, when Mikage, who has the SaneBall at the time, yelled the same word at Mira.