Explain Explain Oh Crap / Film

People having to explain something before they realize the problem in Animated and Live-Action Films.

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Films — Animation

• The Aristocats: In his overconfidence, Edgar reveals to Frou Frou the horse that he's the catnapper because he made the headlines in the newspaper and is gloating how the police won't find a single clue to implicate him — only to realize that he left his hat, umbrella, motorcycle sidecar, and the cats' basket back out in the countryside, and rushes out to retrieve them before the police find them.
  Edgar: Oh, they won't find a clue to implicate me. Not one single clue. Why, I'll eat my hat if they—... MY HAT! MY UMBRELLA! Oh, gracious! I've got to get those things back tonight!
• Atlantis: The Lost Empire: Earlier in the film, Milo comments how the Shepherd's Journal mentions something called "The Heart of Atlantis", but it abruptly cuts off. He muses that it's "almost like there's a missing page". Then, after Milo and Kida discover the truth about the Heart of Atlantis…
  Kida: Then, where is it now?
  Milo: I don't know. I don't—you think something this important would've been in the Journal, but—! Unless... the missing page.
• Inverted in The Black Cauldron, when the Horned King is destroyed by the titular cauldron, leading to this line from his abused minion, Creeper:
  Creeper: (gasp) Oh no! H-how horrible! Poor sire! (sniff) H-he's gone! (his eyes pop open in realization that he's now free of his Bad Boss forever, causing him to grin) He's gone! Ha! He's gone! (laughing heartily as he runs off) He's gone!
• This hilarious line from BIONICLE: Mask Of Light, after Onua just caused a cave-in on top of the Rahkshi.
  Pohatu: Well done, but how did you keep the ceiling from collapsing... ON US TOO!
• Brave: Merida has such a moment when she and her mother (who has been transformed into a bear) stumble across the ruins of an old castle. When Merida finds the ruins of the throne room, she sees a stone tablet depicting four brothers, one split off from the rest, similar to how Merida ripped the family tapestry during her fight with her mother. Remembering the story of the four princes that her mother had told her, and the witch's earlier comment about a man who once came to her hoping to gain "the strength of ten men", Merida comes to the terrifying conclusion that not only is the legend true, but the spell that transformed her mother has happened before, and the eldest prince from the legend is none other than Mor'du, the monstrous bear from the beginning of the movie. And to make matters worse, he's standing right behind her.
  Merida: The spell… it's happened before. "Strength of ten men"… "Fate be changed"… Changed his fate. Oh, no! The prince became... (turns around, seeing a very monstrous but familiar face) Mor'du!
• The Chipmunk Adventure: Near the end of the film, Alvin and Simon are enslaved by a tribe of natives in Fiji who kidnapped Theodore, believing him to be a deity known as the Prince of Plenty. While out gathering food, Alvin and Simon discover a cave with an inscription written on the wall in glyphic symbols. Simon translates the symbols to read "Sacrifice the Prince of Plenty on the full moon." before the two do a double take and look up to the sky through a hole in the ceiling to see a full moon forming, realizing their baby brother is going to be killed that night.
• Daffy Duck's Quackbusters: After inheriting J. P. Cubish's fortune, Daffy is haunted by his spirit, who warns him that the money will disappear if he uses it for selfish or dishonest ends. Near the end, when Daffy's ghost-busting business suffers a PR fiasco, he considers blaming it all on Porky... until he realizes the implications of it.
  Daffy: Yeah, that's it! It was his fault! Yeah! Who's to know? What the hey? There's nothing wrong with a little dishonesty in business affairs. (beat) WHAT AM I SAYING?!
  (he runs to his safe to find it completely empty, save for a sign reading "You lose, duck!")
• Finding Nemo has a scene where Peach wakes up to find that the tank has been cleaned overnight by a new filter system, foiling the gang's plan to escape.
  Peach: The sun is shining, the tank is clean, and we are getting out of— [gasp] The tank is clean. THE TANK IS CLEAN!!!
• In Help! I'm a Fish, Fly tricks Joe into drinking more of the fish potion antidote that increases brain power by asking him several questions... when he asks Joe what happens if a fish drinks too much of it, Joe replies, "It becomes human!" And then...
  Fly: Can a human breathe underwater?
  Joe: Of course not— [eyes widen in shock as he gasps for breath and drowns]
• Hercules:
  • Pain and Panic experience this when they work out that the warrior who beat Nessus the centaur is the same baby they failed to kill years ago (a fact they hid from Hades). The "Oh crap" is because not only did they figure it out right in front of Hades, but Hades himself has already figured this out as soon as heard the name, and he is very displeased about that.
    Pain: Wait a minute, wasn't Hercules the name of that kid we were supposed to...[trails off as he and Panic make the connection]
    Pain & Panic: OH, MY GODS!
    Hades: [grabs the imps by the throats] So you "Took care of him", huh? "Dead as a doornail." Weren't those your exact words?!
  • Meg, having fallen in love with Hercules, refuses to work for Hades any longer... which, unfortunately, convinces Hades that she is Herc's weakness.
    Hades: Meg, listen. Do you hear that sound? It's the sound of your freedom, fluttering away, forever!
    Meg: I don't care! I'm not gonna help you hurt him!
    Hades: [sighs] I can't believe you're getting all worked up over some... guy.
    Meg: This one is different. He's honest, and sweet...
    Hades: [rolling his eyes] Please...
    Meg: ...he would never do anything to hurt me...
    Hades: He's a guy!
    Meg: [smugly] Besides, O Oneness, you can't beat him. He has no weaknesses! He's gonna—
    [turns and sees Hades smirking at her]
    Hades: I think... he does, Meg. I truly think... he does.
• Incredibles 2: In the aftermath of baby Jack-Jack's superpowered fight with the raccoon, Bob breaks it up, only to realise that Jack-Jack has superpowers (this was established in the previous movie, but the other Parrs didn't see Jack-Jack's powers at the time on account of the latter being too far away). Bob is initially elated, only for the realization that his already hard job as a House Husband is about to get ten times harder to slowly set in...
  Bob: You. Have. POWERS! YEAH, BABY!! And there's not a scratch on you! Did you go right through the locked door? Are those your powers? Haha! Who can multiply like rabbits and go right through any... solid...
  Jack-Jack: [Fires off a bunch of his powers at once.]
  Bob: ...Oh my God!
• Kiki's Delivery Service: As the stresses of her new life start getting to her, a grouchy Kiki is annoyed at breakfast when Jiji starts acting like a normal cat instead of the sapient Talking Animal sidekick he's been until now... until she realizes that she can no longer understand him, which leads to an even bigger panic as she understands what this means.
  Kiki: You know, you can't be late for every meal just because you have a new girlfriend. And you can wash your plate yourself.
  Jiji: (meows)
  Kiki: (mockingly) "Meow." Why are you talking like a cat?
  Jiji: (meows)
  Kiki: Huh...? (realizes) Oh my... Oh no! Talk to me, Jiji! You mean you can't speak anymore?
  (Jiji takes his breakfast and goes out the window)
  Kiki: Jiji? What's going on with him? I can't understand anything he's trying to say. (gasp) What if it means—Oh my goodness!
  (she rushes for her broom and tries to lift off... but she falls to the floor)
  Kiki: ...I'm losing my witch's powers.
• In The Land Before Time VI: The Secret of Saurus Rock, Littlefoot has to find the tooth of a sharptooth to repair Saurus Rock. He returns to the body of a sharptooth he and his friends managed to kill and goes to work trying to pry out a tooth. It's hard work, but at least there's a breeze to cool him of. Except, Littlefoot is standing inside the sharptooth's mouth trying to remove the tooth. Littlefoot reasons there shouldn't be a breeze, then realizes that the sharptooth is breathing and is actually still alive, just as it starts to stand back up.
• Legend Of The Guardians The Owls Of Ga Hoole: After Allomere brings a "moonblinked" Eglantine to Ga'Hoole and leads an army to attack St. Aegolius's, she awakens and tells Soren that their brother Kludd has joined the Pure Ones and that her "rescue" was staged. Hearing this, Soren realizes that Allomere was working with the Pure Ones all along and luring the Guardians into a trap, leading him to gather his friends and fly off to save them.
  Soren: Well, thank Glaux Allomere rescued you.
  Eglantine: I wasn't rescued. Kludd gave me to the owl who brought me here.
  Soren: No, Eg, no. That's impossible. I mean, that would mean that Allomere would have to be a... be a... a traitor. No, it's a trap!
• Played for laughs in The LEGO Movie, when Emmett tries to argue that President Business can't be a villain.
  Emmett: But he's such a good guy. And Octan... they make good stuff: music, dairy products, coffee, TV shows, surveillance systems, all history books, voting machines... wait a minute.
• The Little Mermaid (1989):
  • When Ariel shows off her latest finds for her collection to the supposed "human expert" Scuttle, his explanation of what he believes a tobacco pipe to be gets one of these from her, as she remembers all too late that she had a previous engagement that day.
    Scuttle: This is wonderful! A banded, bulbous - Snarfblat. Now, the Snarfblat dates back to pre-historical times, when humans used to sit around, and stare at each other all day. Got very boring. So, they invented the snarfblat to make fine music. Allow me. (blows into the pipe, causing seaweed to pop out the other end)
    Ariel: Music? Oh, the concert! Oh my gosh, my father's gonna kill me!
  • Combined with Jerkass Realization. After Ariel is turned into a human and ends up on the surface, Sebastian is panic-stricken and tries to go back down underwater to inform her father, King Triton. When Ariel silently begs him not to, he starts to staunchly defend his decision, but soon realizes that he can't bring himself to go through with it, especially since Triton destroyed her prized collection the last time he tattled on her to save his shell.
    Sebastian: I'm gonna march meself straight home right now and tell him just like I should have done the minute—
    (Ariel picks him up and shakes her head with a pleading expression)
    Sebastian: And don't you shake your head at me, young lady! Maybe there's still time. If we could get that witch to give you back your voice, you could go home, with all the normal fish, and just be...
    (he notices that Ariel has a mournful expression on her face, and he starts to lose steam)
    Sebastian: Just be... Just be miserable for the rest of your life. (beat) All right, all right. I'll help ya find that prince.
    (Ariel perks up and gives him a big kiss, then sets him back down)
    Sebastian: Boy, what a soft-shell I'm turning out to be.
• Mortal Kombat Legends: Battle of the Realms sees the Lin Kuei Grandmaster come to the horrific realization that he was the Unwitting Pawn of an Omnicidal Maniac upon talking about said Maniac — with said Maniac.
  Shinnok: What? You thought I had you chasing some bauble?
  Grandmaster: But... if it is put together —
  Shinnok: The One Being will come back — and destroy all of existence?
  Grandmaster: Yes. It is said that mad god Shinnok has searched... (realization strikes) You're Shinnok!
• Over the Hedge: During the heist inside Gladys' house, the animals keep an eye on her by watching her through a TV hooked to her bedroom's surveillance camera feed. While they're in the kitchen, the coffee maker turns on and we get this exchange:
  Verne: What is that?
  RJ: That is what gets humans up in the morning.
  [three seconds later, they turn to the screen and see that the bed is empty]
• Phineas and Ferb The Movie: Candace Against the Universe: Candace has a moment after learning that the "Remarkalonium" that Super Super Big Doctor's mind controlling plant needs to survive is actually carbon dioxide. She incredulously admits that everyone on Earth (all 7 billion of them) breathes it before slowing down in the middle of her bragging, realizing that she not only put Earth in jeopardy but also that she's not really The Chosen One like Super claimed.
• Pinocchio:
  • When Honest John and the Coachman are negotiating their trade, Honest John has this to say.
    Coachman: ...and I takes them to Pleasure Island!
    Honest John: (pleasantly) Ahh, Pleasure Island... (eyes bulge) Pleasure Island?! But, the law!
  • Later on, when Jiminy discovers that the boys on Pleasure Island end up turning into donkeys.
    Jiminy: Boys? So that's what... PINOCCHIO!!!
  • Then later, during the final act, when Jiminy reads the Blue Fairy's message that Geppetto was Swallowed Whole by Monstro the Whale.
    Pinocchio: Swallowed by a whale?!
    Jiminy: (oblivious) Yeah, uh huh... (with realization) A WHALE?!
• Pocahontas: Ben and Lon, Those Two Guys, find John Smith with Pocahontas and Grandmother Willow, who trips them with her root:
  Ben: Watch your feet, ya big oaf!
  Lon: It wasn't me, it was the tree!
  Ben: Oh, of course! The tree just felt like lifting its roots, and-- (Ben stops in mid-sentence when he and Lon turn around to catch Willow lowering her root) Let's get outta here!
  • Come to think of it, Ben downplays this trope by using sarcasm.
• Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July: After Winterbolt is defeated and his magic is no more, Rudolph realizes that everything powered by him is now useless... including the amulets that kept Frosty and his snow-family from melting in the summer heat!
  Rudolph: Hey, wait a minute!
  Lilly: What is it, Blinky?
  Rudolph: If all his powers are gone, that means those amulets are no good either. [gasp] FROSTY! CRYSTAL!
• Inverted in The Secret Life of Pets. After Duke knocks over a vase, Max panics, thinking that Katie will flip out, then pauses as though he's realized she might blame him for it. Instead, he realizes she's more likely to blame Duke, and promptly sets about knocking over everything in sight while Duke frantically tries to stop him.
• Happens in the climax of Toy Story when Woody suddenly realizes too late that using a firework rocket to catch up to the truck might not be a good idea.
  Woody: Wait a minute. I just lit a rocket. Rockets explode!
• At the climax of Treasure Planet, Robot Buddy B.E.N. gets his memory back... just in time to recall that Captain Flint's hoard of treasure is booby-trapped.
  B.E.N.: It's all flooding back! All my memories! Right up until Flint pulled my memory circuit so I could never tell anybody about his booby trap! [distant explosion] Speaking of which...
• In Turning Red, as Mei is explaining her panda form to her friends she assures them that it will go away eventually, then amends that to "maybe" before breaking out in tears over the realization that she might be stuck with it forever.

Films — Live-Action

• Played for Laughs in Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, when Ace deduces that Ray Finkle is now Lois Einhorn, who he made out with:
  Ace: That's it! Einhorn is Finkle... Finkle is Einhorn... Einhorn is a man! [Beat] Oh, my GOD! Einhorn is a man?!
  [cue montage of Ace vomiting his entire stomach's contents into the toilet, burning his clothes, and then jumping in the shower and sobbing]
• Late in Apollo 13, after the astronauts have (with great difficulty) brought their damaged spacecraft around the moon and have detached the command module for reentry, they are able to make a visual inspection of the damaged service module and report what they see. At first this seems to be of only historical interest, since they've already discarded the service module and it no longer matters how much damage it took... until they realize the damage might not have been limited to the service module.
  Jim Lovell: Houston, we're getting our first look at the service module now. One whole side of the spacecraft is missing. Right by the high gain antenna, a whole panel is blown out. Right up... right up to our heat shield.
• Aquaman (2018): Mera has a moment when she tries to explain to her father, King Nereus, that the surfacer attack was a False Flag Operation, and surely they weren't gullible enough to fall for it...? No, they weren't, they just thought a war with the surface was inevitable, and if Orm was willing to organize one and set himself up to take the political backlash, they lose nothing by playing along.
• Subverted at the end of The Babysitter: Killer Queen. Upon realizing that Cole is no longer a virgin, and thus their attempt at a Virgin Sacrifice backfired because they drank tainted blood, the entire cult starts to panic... except for Max, who congratulates Cole for losing his virginity to Phoebe even as he dies a painful death.
  Max: You fucking stud, Cole! I'm not even mad, bro! Respect!
• Back to the Future Part II: When Doc figures out he and Marty can just pick up Jennifer at her and Marty's future home, Marty is happy at the prospect of meeting his future self but Doc starts explaining why it mustn't happen until he, by doing so, figures out there's a high probability Jennifer will meet her future self.
• In Bedazzled (2000), when Elliot wishes to be a famous writer to impress Alison, they arrive at his apartment to find a man waiting in his bed. Elliot tries to convince Alison he's not gay, unfortunately...
  Elliot: Wait. This is a mistake. I'm not gay.
  Alison: Oh, really? And I'm Tony Danza!
  Elliot: Honestly, I swear it. I'm not.
  Alison: Then tell me, who was in the Broadway cast of The Pajama Game?
  Elliot: Janis Paige, John Raitt, Eddy Foy, Jr.
  Alison: I assume you mean the original cast because there was a revival in 1973 that starred...
  Elliot: Hal Linden and Barbara McNair—(With realization) I am gay!
• Early in Clue, when the Guests are trying to figure out who killed Mr. Boddy, they hear someone screaming from the Billiards Room;
  Prof. Plum: It must be the murderer!
  Mr. Green: (Confused) Why would he scream?
  Mrs. White: He must have a victim in there. Oh my god, Yvette!
  • Later, when Wattsworth and Yvette are asked if there's anyone else in the house:
    Wattsworth and Yvette: Only the cook.
    Everyone: The cook!
• In Danger: Diabolik, having received word that Diabolik survived, Inspector Ginko receives what his sergeant believes to be Diabolik's death certificate but he knows is actually Ralph Valmont's death certificate. He then connects Valmont's cause of death to Diabolik's next big hit, based on what he knew about the emerald necklace that Diabolik had stolen.
  Ginko: Sergeant... this is our friend Valmont's certificate. Cause of death: eleven machine gun shots.
  [close-up on Ginko's eyes as he realizes the meaning of this]
  Voiceover: Eleven emeralds... eleven bullets...
  [Ginko suddenly gets up]
  Ginko: To the morgue!
• Played for Laughs in Deadpool (2016). When Wade tells Weasel about his newly-active mutation and reveals his consequent visage, Weasel remarks that he needs "a suit and a nickname". On account of the ludicrously overpowered healing factor, Weasel suggests "Mr. Neverdie"... and then remembers that he had put a rather high wager on Wade's death in the merc-bar dead pool.
  Weasel: Ah, shit.
• The short version: In Death Note, it was split. Light doing the explaining and Ryuk doing the Oh, Crap! reaction.
  • The long version: Ryuk wonders why Light was ignoring him. When Light in the convenience store explained to Ryuk that the former has a feeling that he's been watched via CCTV which means no Apples for Ryuk, it took a few seconds for the Shinigami to realize what Light meant and reacted in sorrow.
    Ryuk: Nooooooooo!!!
• Demolition Man features a scene where John Spartan discusses with his two partners and the police chief what Simon Phoenix's next move would be. Spartan insists that it will be to get a gun, which the police chief insists is ridiculous — the only guns in San Angeles are in a museum...
• In Die Hard, after John McClane tells Sgt. Powell to tell his wife that he loves her in case he doesn't make it out, Powell tries to reassure him that he'll survive. John says that "that's up to the man upstairs"... and remembers Hans Gruber's visit to the roof of Nakatomi Plaza earlier in the film, at which point he realizes that Hans was up to something funny. Sure enough, when he gets there, he finds that Hans is planning to blow up the roof with all of the hostages on it, along with the helicopters coming to rescue them.
• When Dr. Burke is trying to propose to Ophelia in Doctor in Trouble:
  Ophelia: Well, now, doctor man, who are we gonna get t'marry you?
  Dr. Burke: I was just come to that, Ophelia. Look, I know I've played aroun' a bit in the past, but-
  Ophelia: What are they doin' with those bells?!
  Dr. Burke: Oh, it just means the ship's sinking, you see. I want to ask you. Will you be my- THE SHIP'S SINKING!
• After escaping from the Jones' suite in Don't Bother to Knock Jed tells Lyn about his night, saying that when he left Bunny was safe in bed. It then dawns on him that Bunny was in the wrong bed and wasn't moving (because she was bound and gagged.)
• Don't Look Up: At the beginning of the film, all the scientists are giddy with excitement about Kate's discovery of a new comet, and Dr. Mindy starts walking them through the calculations to determine how close it will come to Earth. Watching him do the calculations, Kate asks "Why does the ephemeris keep getting lower and lower?", prompting Dr. Mindy to stop mid-sentence, realizing that the ephemeris is going to decline to zero.
• Dr. Strangelove:
  • The bomber has a chance to make it through! General Buck Turgidson explains that if the pilot's really good, they can fly "on the deck", below Soviet radar. Meanwhile (due to a malfunction, not strategy) the bomber in question is doing exactly that.
    Major Kong: Well, boys, we got three engines out, we got more holes in us than a horse trader's mule, the radio is gone and we're leaking fuel and if we was flying any lower why we'd need sleigh bells on this thing... but we got one little budge on them Rooskies. At this height why they might harpoon us but they dang sure ain't gonna spot us on no radar screen!
  • Early on, Group Captain Mandrake realizes there is no imminent Russian attack, and goes to tell General Ripper to call off his bombing mission. When Ripper challenges him on the facts, Mandrake counters:
    Mandrake: Well, I'm afraid I'm still not with you, sir, because, I mean, if a Russian attack was not in progress, then your use of Plan R — in fact, your order to the entire Wing... oh. ...I would say, sir, that there were something dreadfully wrong somewhere.
  • And near the end, after it's been outlined that if a single nuke lands on the Russians it's World War III, and the end of humanity, General Turgidson is asked if the remaining bomber has a chance at reaching its target and dropping its nuclear payload on it. Turgidson, having praised both crew and plane effusively, starts out with a cheerful "HELL YEAH!" until he visibly deflates, realizing they're doomed.
• Enola Holmes 2: Sherlock angrily rattles off various flaws in Enola's appearance, including that her neck is red... in a way that means someone must have held a knife to it. He instantly softens, concerned for her safety.
• In Final Destination, Alex, believing he's next to die, is holed up in a cabin to protect himself when he sees a newspaper article about Christa and Blake, the two girls who asked him to trade seats with them on the plane. This gives him a "Eureka!" Moment that leads into this as it makes him realize that he never traded seats with them like in his premonition, which means that he's not the one who's next on Death's list... Clear is.
  Alex: I never moved. Christa asked me to change, but I never moved. I would have been up next to Tod. Fuck! Why didn't I remember that? I never moved, Clear's seat was in front of mine. She's next.
• In The French Dispatch, an art agent smuggles supplies and bribes at great expense to an imprisoned genius painter, in exchange for rights to the masterpiece he will create. Once it's completed, he sneaks in to see the end product, and gushes over the amazing frescoes he's funded. He is still gushing, in fact, about how wonderful and valuable they are, when he realizes he just said they're frescoes (as in, painted directly onto the load-bearing prison walls, unremovable and unsellable).
• In The Game Plan, when a little girl appears at football player Joe Kingman's apartment claiming she's the daughter of him and his ex-wife, Kingman and his agent are trying to figure out if the timeline tracks.
  Joe: [He and his ex-wife] got the separation, the divorce was final, she came by to pick up a few of her things and then we... We — Is anyone else hungry?
• In Glass Onion Detective Blanc realizes while giving The Summation that he inadvertently gave the killer the idea for his second murder plan. "It's as if you put a loaded gun on the table and turned off the lights!" In this case, the Oh, Crap! comes less from the act itself and more that the killer is even stupider than he thought (which is saying something), as even his one "original" idea was stolen.
• In Godzilla (2014), when the MONARCH team discovers that the two Mutos have been communicating with each other, Serizawa explains that the female Muto's egg is currently located at the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository — which is not only filled with radioactive waste (which the Mutos feed on), but also happens be located right outside Las Vegas.
• The Guard: Gerry realizes the full influence of the drug operation when he points out that bribing, blackmailing, or killing him wouldn't matter under ordinary circumstances.
  Gerry: What's the point in paying me off? You'll have to pay off every other guard on the West Coast.
  Sheehy is silent, and smiles a little.
  Gerry: The lot of them?
  Sheehy: Enough as makes no odds.
• Hairspray (2007): At the film's climax, Velma has police at the TV station to prevent Tracy from getting in and entering the pageant. At one point, Tracy's allies lock them out, and the police use one of the giant hairspray cans at the front of the station to break the doors open. When they meet Velma deeper in the station...
  Velma: Finally! How long does it take to break down a door?
  Policeman: That hairspray battering ram was heavy.
  Velma: Heavy? How can they be heavy, they're—(Beat)...hollow.
  (Velma rushes back towards the entrance alongside the police, and finds the giant hairspray can lying empty, a door on its side wide open)
  Velma: Oh, my God. YOU CARRIED HER IN!
• In Herbie Rides Again, Mrs. Steinmetz and Willoughby trick Alonzo Hawk's wrecker into knocking down Hawk's own house. (In reality, Hawk had ordered his wrecker to knock down their firehouse). Alonzo's retorts?
  Wrecker: Sorry to disturb you at this time of night Mr. Hawk, but a guy at my job can't afford to make mistakes!
  Hawk: What are you talking about?
  Wrecker: That address you gave me on the phone...?
  Hawk: What about it?
  Wrecker: "343 Oleander Heights." Are you sure that's the right address?
  Hawk: Of course I'm sure, you idiot! I know it as well as I know my own address! [hangs up] Wait a minute... IT IS MY OWN ADDRESS!!
• Averted in Hero (2002). The emperor calmly explains that Nameless is clearly lying about the earlier assassinations, and therefore must be there to kill him. When Nameless asks how long he's known, he replies that he figured it out while they were talking, too late to stop Nameless from getting close enough to kill him. He never shows any emotion at the fact that he's moments away from death.
• The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey has an example where it's one character talking to himself that leads him to a conclusion.
  Radagast: I don't understand why it's not working! It's not as if... it's witchcraft. (Beat) Oh, but it is.
• Inverted in Home Alone and its sequel, where Kevin starts out shocked when he's separated from his family before realizing that he can now do whatever he wants.
• In Spike Lee's Inside Man, Denzel Washington's character is talking about how they plan to retake the bank, only to realize the bank robbers are wiretapping them, and know about the impending SWAT team raid, which he then tries to stop, unsuccessfully.
• The Last Starfighter:
  • Alex returns to aid the Starfighters after an attack with Grig showing him a prototype Gunstar. He mentions "it's a good thing I was working on it when the hanger went up." It's only when the Gunstar starts taking off that Alex realizes what he said and how he is the Last Starfighter.
  Alex: Wait, wait, when did the hanger go up?
  Grig: I told you! When Xur attacked!
  Alex: And where were the Starfighters?
  Grig: In the hanger!
  Alex: You mean they're all dead?!
  Grig: Death is a primitive concept. I prefer to think of them as battling evil in another dimension.
  Alex: In another dimension? How many are left?!
  Grig: Including yourself?
  Alex: Yeah!
  Grig: One.
  Alex: ONE?!
  (ship takes off with the engines drowning out Alex's screams and protests)
  • Grig explains how the Ko-Dan command ship uses a special command turret to send messages to the fleet, and they have to knock it out after somehow getting through the said fleet.
  Alex: Wait a second. We knock out the turett to get the fighters, but to get to the turett, we have to get through the fighters. We're dead.
  Grig: Don't worry. I'll have it all figured out by the time we get to the Frontier.
  (a beeping sound goes off as Grig's face falls)
  Alex: What's that?
  Grig: The Frontier.
• In Machete, Booth's guards go through this when Machete infiltrates their boss' mansion by posing as a menial gardener. They let him through without any real check, then question why they weren't more thorough because he could be anybody, then realize their stupidity.
  Guard: Did you ever notice how you let a Mexican into your home just because he's got gardening tools? I mean, no questions asked, you just let him right in. He could have, y'know, a chainsaw or a machete...
• Marvel Cinematic Universe:
  • The Avengers: After a battle on the helicarrier that leads to Agent Coulson's death, Steve Rogers and Tony Stark discuss Loki's next move in the following exchange:
    Tony: He made it personal.
    Steve: That's not the point...
    Tony: No, that is the point. That's Loki's point. He hit all of us right at where we live. Why?
    Steve: To tear us apart.
    Tony: Yeah, divide and conquer's... great... but, he knows he has to take us out for him to win, right? That's what he wants! He wants to beat us; he wants to be seen doing it. He wants an audience.
    Steve: Right. I caught his act in Stuttgart.
    Tony: Yeah, that's just previews, though. This is opening night! And Loki, he's a full-tilt diva, he wants flowers, he wants parades, he wants a monument built to the sky with his name plastered...
    [Beat; Steve raises his eyebrows pointedly at Tony's choice of description]
    Tony: Son of a bitch. [He realizes Loki will use his own Stark Tower for summoning the Chitauri.]
  • In Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Agent Sitwell, after some High-Altitude Interrogation, reveals the plan to give HYDRA control of Project Insight, and use it to kill anyone who might potentially oppose them. Then he realizes he'll probably be one of the first ones they kill with it, and pulls an Enemy Mine.
  • In Avengers: Age of Ultron, as the Avengers are laying low at Barton's farm and discussing Ultron, Tony and Banner focus on how he keeps building humanoid forms even though, as a sapient A.I., it's a rather impractical choice. From this they deduce that he's trying to prove himself superior to them, then Banner realizes they haven't heard from Dr. Helen Cho for a while.
  • In Captain America: Civil War, this is how Team Cap realizes that someone inside the UN framed Bucky for the bombing in Vienna. They're talking about everything that doesn't add up about the incriminating photo (since as the Winter Soldier, he went fifty years without ever being photographed in the field), and (correctly) conclude that it was faked with the goal of setting off a worldwide manhunt:
    Sharon: ...But that still doesn't guarantee that [whoever framed him] would get him, it guarantees that we would.
    [dramatic zoom in on supposedly the psychologist Dr. Broussard, actually Baron Zemo]
  • In Ant-Man and the Wasp, when Hank Pym's lab has been stolen, he goes to his old colleague Bill Foster, who suggests using a defractor to track down the lab. However, since the newer suits don't have defractors, but the old ones did, Scott reveals that he didn't destroy Hank's old suit, and hid it in a trophy that Cassie had given him. When Scott calls Luis to find the trophy, only to reveal that it's not there, Scott realizes that Cassie had taken it to show and tell when he told her not to.
    Scott: You got to be kidding me. I put it right up there after Cassie and I... (Beat) Show and tell.
  • When the villains of Spider-Man: No Way Home meet up and realize they've been pulled into the MCU moments before their deaths, Electro doesn't believe it, up until he recounts the events up to his arrival.
    Max: Aw, please. Lemme tell you something: I was whooping Spider-Man's ass. He'll tell you. And then he caused an overload—I was stuck in the grid, absorbing data—I was about to turn into pure energy, and then I... And then... (Quietly) Oh shit. I was about to die.
• Monty Python and the Holy Grail has a variation with the Trojan Rabbit, as King Arthur and his knights — including Bedevere, Lancelot and Galahad — watch the large wooden rabbit they've constructed be towed into the French castle from a distance:
  King Arthur: What happens next?
  Sir Bedevere: Well, now, uh, Lancelot, Galahad, and I wait until nightfall, and then leap out of the rabbit, taking the French by surprise — not only by surprise, but totally unarmed!
  King Arthur: ...Who leaps out?
  Sir Bedevere: Uh, Lancelot, Galahad, and I. Uh, leap out of the rabbit, uh, and uh...
  [Sir Bedevere looks around and realizes that he forgot to explain the part where they are supposed to climb INTO the rabbit, and said named people are not actually in the rabbit; everyone begins to Face Palm]
  Sir Bedevere: Um, l-look, if we built this large wooden badger... [gets dope-slapped]
• The Mummy (2017): When the tomb of the titular character is discovered, Nick and Chris are sent in to check it with Jenny accompanying them for a historian's perspective. As they enter the burial chamber Jenny begins recording her observations, including what seems to be wrong with a lot of them: the guardian statues are facing inward rather than outward, there are no provisions for the journey to the afterlife, there are channels for liquid mercury to guard against evil spirits. After a few of these, she stops and says that this room layout wasn't designed to keep something safe. It was designed to keep something trapped.
• In Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising, Teddy has one in regard to his former Wacky Fratboy Hijinx after Shelby and her Kappa sorority sisters tell him why they hate frat parties.
  Teddy: We had great parties! "Pimps and Hoes", "CEOS and Corporate Hoes", "Boise Boys and Ida-Hoes"...
  Shelby: They're, like, super sexist. Every party is, like, themed ho.
  Teddy: I mean... <eyes go wide> Oh, geez. Oh no. Oh God! Yeah, I see your point.
• Towards the end of Now You See Me, Thaddeus Bradley mulls over how the Horsemen are still a step ahead of him and realizes that Dylan Rhodes, who he's talking to, is the fifth Horseman.
• In Panic in the Streets, Captain Warren says that even if the dead man did have the plague, the man who shot him hadn't been within 10 feet of him. Dr. Reed then asks him how the body ended up on the riverbank. Warren starts that somebody could have carried it there, and stops suddenly with an Oh, Crap! look on his face.
• In Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, Grover recognizes one of the statues at the Garden Gnome Emporium:
  Grover: Check this out... he looks just like my Uncle Ferdinand. [notices a mole on the statue's forehead] That's crazy. Got the mole in the same place. [Beat] Nah, that's not my Uncle Ferdinand, 'cause my Uncle Ferdinand was killed by... [Oh, Crap! face] Medusa.
• In Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, Sao Feng's men take a spy captive when negotiations with Elizabeth and Barbossa become tense, resulting in this exchange.
  Sao Feng: Drop your weapons, or I kill your man!
  Barbossa: [shares a confused glance with Elizabeth, then shrugs] Kill him, he's not our man.
  Will: Wait, if he's not with you, and he's not with us... who is he with?
  [a dozen EITC soldiers kick down the doors and open fire]
• The Predator gives us this gem: "...the dumbest motherfucker I've ever met. Ha ha. I mean, a Ranger sniper tripping a wire sensors? He's gotta be... Creating a diversion!" Cue a Ranger sniper.
• In The Producers, Franz Liebkind isn't sure if he's using a quick fuse or a slow fuse for the dynamite to blow up the theater, so he decides to check by cutting it and then lighting it. Seeing the speed the fuse was burning, he bragged to Max and Leo that his suspicions were right and it was the quick fuse...before realizing the implications:
  Franz: Ze kvick fuse!?! (theater blows up)
• From Quick Change:
  Lt. Jameson: Chief, The Peruvian Connection. The Subway Psycho? The people are gonna remember what you've done. What's so memorable about a clown stealing a million dollars?
  (Rotzinger gives him a look.)
  Lt. Jameson: Jesus, we gotta get this guy!
• In Real Genius, the gang are celebrating finally getting their laser working right. Eccentric genius Lazlo comes up and, while asking questions about how they did it, gets the group to realize what they just created: A beam of power hotter than the sun which is so strong it can only be used for fifteen seconds tops. That limits the applications it can be used for but makes it perfect for "the express purpose for which it was designed."
  Lazlo: Look at the facts. Very high powered. Portable. Limited firing time, unlimited range. All you's need is a tracking system and a, a large spinning mirror and you can vaporize a human target from space.
  (during his talk, Chris has stopped chewing his food and his grin slowly fades. By the time Lazlo is done, the rest of the group are sharing looks of stunned understanding at how they've been tricked into creating a military weapon.)
  Chris: This is not good.
• In Scrooged, Frank is led by the Ghost of Christmas Future to a private funeral ceremony. At first, he's convinced that his brother James was the deceased. But then James shows up with a minister, and Frank is initially overjoyed... until he slowly realizes that he is the one about to be burned.
  Frank: Oh, no. James... my brother... he's dead. Why did this have to happen? Well, when I get back, I'll... [he brightens up as James walks up to the coffin with a minister] THERE HE IS! JAMES! [he realizes something's not right] ...Who's in there?
• From Serenity, after they see the destruction of Haven:
  Jayne: How come they ain't waitin'? They know'd we was comin', how come they only sent one?
  Zoe: ...they didn't know we'd come here. Get on the Cortex. Wave the Sanchez brothers, Li Shen — anyone who's ever sheltered us after a heist. Tell them to get out. Get out now!
• In Short Circuit, Number Five makes the connection between death and disassembly after crushing a grasshopper, immediately realising he must abscond lest NOVA find and destroy (kill) him.
• Small Soldiers: After the designers of the Commando Elite and the Gorgonites get a call from the main character claiming that the former toys have caused major damage to his father's store, Larry, the more aloof designer, doesn't believe him because everything about the toys are standard...before realizing the chips he put into them were Army surplus munitions. When he has an Oh, Crap! expression, it doesn't take his associate, Irwin, long to figure out why.

Irwin: What if this kid's telling the truth? We can't have toys out on the market that may be dangerous.
Larry: [lackadaisical] How can they be dangerous? Everything on them is standard. The design is standard, the materials are standard... the mechanicals are standard. Even the... [sudden Oh, Crap! face] Oh.
Irwin: What's "Oh"?
Larry: What?
Irwin: You just said "Oh".
Larry: No, I said "Oh!"
Irwin: You mean "Oh" like, "That's interesting" or "Oh" like, "We're screwed"?
Larry: No. I mean, "Hey! Whoa! Oh!". Look, forget the "Oh", all right? I'm going to go down to legal and get the ball rolling on the countersuit.
Irwin: The chips! That's the "Oh"!

• Inverted at the end of Space Jam, after Swackhammer begins chewing the Monstars out for losing the basketball game:
  Jordan: Why're you taking it from this guy?
  Bupkis: Because he's bigger.
  Pound: He's bigger?!
  Bang: Bigger than we used to be...
  [the Monstars immediately turn on Swackhammer, who panics]
• Spy Kids pulls this twice:
  • When Carmen and Juni first meet their robot doubles, said robots easily beat them up and steal the Third Brain from them. After the robots take the brain back to Floop's Castle, Juni reveals to Carmen that he stole her double's tag during their fight. After Carmen reads the tag, they realize the enormity of the situation:
    Carmen: "Limited Edition Spy Kid. One of 500..." Floop could have hundreds of these things flying around!
    Juni: The Third Brain makes them smart. They're building an army.
    Carmen: We've got to save Mom and Dad. Only they can stop the robots.
    Juni: But who's going to help us? [their only option is Machete, thanks to the photo Carmen found in Gregorio and Ingrid's wedding album]
  • After Carmen and Juni realize the enormity of the situation after the Brain is stolen from them by their robot doubles, it quickly cuts to Gregorio and Ingrid's cell in Floop's Castle after they're caught the second time. Gregorio confesses to Ingrid about the Brain project, and how their superiors were ordered to destroy it. She starts asking why he kept it a secret if the Third Brain was "something you destroyed." Gregorio gives her a shameful look, and she says with horror, "Or something you didn't."
• Star Trek:
  • An example of this coming way too late in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock: Klingon Commander Kruge sends his men to take control of the USS Enterprise after the ship's crew surrenders, but Kirk slips in a little surprise for the boarding party just before letting the Klingons take control.
    Torg: My lord, the ship appears to be deserted.
    Kruge: How can that be? They're hiding!
    Torg: Yes, sir...but the bridge seems to be run by computer. It is the only thing speaking.
    Kruge: Speaking? Let me hear.
    [Torg holds the communicator over the computer, which is counting down. Kruge (who unlike his men can speak English) soon realizes it's the ship's Self-Destruct Mechanism]
    Kruge: GET OUT!!!! GET OUT OF THERE!! GET OUT!
    [The Enterprise explodes, killing all of the Klingons aboard]
  • In Star Trek: First Contact, Picard finds out that the Enterprise is experiencing environmental difficulties that started on deck 16 before spreading to the rest of the ship.
    Picard: Mister Hawk, before we lost internal sensors, what were the exact environmental conditions in main engineering?
    Hawk: Atmospheric pressure was 2 kilopascals above normal, 92% humidity, 39.1 degrees Celsius...
    Picard: 39.1 degrees Celsius... Like a Borg ship. They knew their ship was doomed, our shields were down and somehow they transported over here without being detected. They'll assimilate the Enterprise, and then... Earth.
  • In Star Trek: Nemesis, after negotiations with Praetor Shinzon of the Romulan Empire have gone south, the Enterprise is warping back to Federation space to join a Starfleet battle group. While en route, they enter an area called the Bazen Rift, which causes them to lose contact with Starfleet.
    Data: The rift affects all long-range communic—[Oh, Crap! face]
    Picard: [hits combadge] Commander Riker, evasive maneuvers!
    [the Enterprise shudders as Shinzon opens fire]
  • Star Trek Into Darkness: Kirk has something bothering him, and Admiral Marcus asks him to speak up. Kirk points out that the normal response to an incident such as Harrison's terrorist attack is to gather all the available captains and first officers in a single room. Like the one they are in now. And then he looks out the window and a light descends...
    Kirk: CLEAR THE ROOM!!
• Star Wars:
  • A New Hope has Luke Skywalker realizing that the Empire, who slaughtered a group of Jawas that had captured and sold R2-D2 and C-3PO, the two robots the Imperials are after because of the Death Star plans they're also after, are now after his family.
    Luke: If they traced the robots here, they may have learned who they sold them to and that would lead them back... home!
  • In Return of the Jedi, at the beginning of the assault on the second Death Star, Lando Calrissian realizes that the Empire has lured the Rebellion into a trap.
    Lando: We've got to get some kind of reading on that shield, up or down. [...] But how could they be jamming us if they don't know... that we're coming? [Beat] Break off the attack! The shield is still up!
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze: When they discover that the Shredder plans to turn Tokka and Rahzar loose in Central Park unless the Turtles agree to fight them again, Donnie asks, "How are they gonna avoid all of those...people?" It's only after he says this that he realizes that Tokka and Rahzar aren't going to avoid the people.
• In Thomas and the Magic Railroad, Mr. Conductor and Junior get a shared one when they realize Lady is integral to helping them get their gold dust back.
  Mr. Conductor: Lady! That engine's name is Lady! She's part of the clue to the source
  Junior: [simultaneously with Mr. C in realization] of the Gold Dust!
  [Both scream in fear]
• In Wes Craven's New Nightmare, shortly after Julie's death, Dylan escapes from the hospital to get away from Freddy, while Heather desperately searches the building for him. When Dr. Heffner tells her that Dylan had been sedated, she explains that Dylan is prone to sleepwalking and is able to get out of the hospital if he wanted to, only to realize that he had probably done just that.
  Heather Langenkamp: [Dylan] doesn't have to be awake to be on his feet!
  Dr. Heffner: What?
  Heather Langenkamp: He sleepwalks, you idiot! He's fully capable of walking out of this hospital! (Beat) ...Oh, shit!